tag:searchlightcrusade.net,2024:/mt//feed/defects 2024-05-13T14:51:48Z Movable Type 4.21-en 15 1 15 tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.4813 2023-04-18T14:00:00Z 2023-04-18T16:34:01Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I was looking through some real estate listings and saw one property described as: "Contractor's special, first time buyers and investors. House needs TLC." Does contractor's special mean u better be a contractor if you wanna buy this place? It... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.4762 2022-06-13T14:00:00Z 2022-06-13T16:48:24Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Over the last couple of decades, there's been a rising movement, mostly on the part of those who want a piece of real estate agents business, to sell agents as a toll booth. Tollbooths sit there, guarding the entry to... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.3837 2022-05-30T14:00:00Z 2022-05-30T15:03:23Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I recently got an email from a reader that was coming into a property as I left. I dropped my card and we did the lockbox shuffle thing, then there was an email when I got back to the... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.5028 2022-04-18T14:00:00Z 2022-04-18T14:06:39Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Some fathers, sad to say, are not involved in their children's life beyond conception. Maybe it was just a one night stand and they have no idea they even have a child, maybe they were involved with the mother on... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.4539 2021-07-27T14:00:00Z 2021-07-27T11:20:22Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Before you even make an offer, you should be aware that you're going to spend a significant amount of money in the process of buying a property before the transaction is consummated. This will largely be money that you will... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2010://3.4992 2021-07-23T14:00:00Z 2021-07-23T12:38:32Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ There's an awful lot of nonsense out there that advises people to do without an agent. Quite often, first time buyers of real estate get seduced into not having an agent by this stuff before they get into the market,... tag:gockel.hmdnsgroup.com,2007:/~searchli//3.2793 2021-06-24T14:00:00Z 2021-06-24T10:12:56Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Well, sometimes. Okay, most of the time. But not always. Foreclosures: Bargain hunters beware! Myth no. 1: A big spike in foreclosures is right around the corner... ...That's because in most of the country, anyone who has owned a home... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2008://3.4480 2021-06-22T14:00:00Z 2021-06-22T13:30:11Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ You might get what you pay for. You don't get what you don't pay for, despite the fact that the local dog target loves giving discounters free puffery. I'm not against discounters. I'm very happy to do a discounters work... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2008://3.4473 2021-06-20T14:00:00Z 2021-06-20T14:35:53Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I read a lot of the info. you have on your web page ... thank you. I don't live in San Diego so I'm not looking for a home. What I am trying to decide is whether to sell... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2008://3.4149 2021-01-16T15:00:00Z 2021-01-16T13:36:42Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I just went out doing some general market scouting. Looked at ten properties, and at least three were of a sort that I've started calling "vampire properties." Vampire properties are one more reason you want a good buyer's agent, and... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.4636 2009-06-09T14:00:00Z 2010-12-05T17:10:55Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Some fathers, sad to say, are not involved in their children's life beyond conception. Maybe it was just a one night stand and they have no idea they even have a child, maybe they were involved with the mother on... tag:www.searchlightcrusade.net,2009://3.4472 2009-02-02T15:00:00Z 2010-08-09T13:50:36Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ There's an awful lot of nonsense out there that advises people to do without an agent. Quite often, first time buyers of real estate get seduced into not having an agent by this stuff before they get into the... tag:gockel.hmdnsgroup.com,2007:/~searchli//3.2836 2007-06-25T17:01:09Z 2022-06-13T17:00:57Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ Before you even make an offer, you should be aware that you're going to spend a significant amount of money well before the transaction is consummated. There are methods of avoiding it, but they're a good way to get yourself... tag:gockel.hmdnsgroup.com,2007:/~searchli//3.2791 2007-05-23T17:00:37Z 2022-05-09T16:13:57Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ The local dog target gave discounters several hundred thousand dollars of free puffery recently. I'm not against discounters. I'm perfectly willing to do a discounters work for a discounter's price. Fifty percent for the pay for less than ten percent... tag:gockel.hmdnsgroup.com,2007:/~searchli//3.2624 2007-01-25T18:00:57Z 2022-04-26T00:14:07Z Dan Melson http://www.searchlightcrusade.net/ I just went out doing some general market scouting. Looked at ten properties, and at least three were of a sort that I've started calling "vampire properties." One more reason you want a good buyer's agent. Like a mythical vampire,...