Liz Warren
Displaying blog entries 1291-1300 of 1924
Last years Bite which was put on by the Mt. Hood Chamber of Commerce was a huge fund raiser and success! This year the event will be heald at the Resort at the Mountain in the Mallards. Save the date, May 14th! Here are details with more to come. BITE DETAILS HERE 5-9PM.
March fell short of the prior two months in total sales on the mountain. Five sales were closed this past month and all were distressed. Two of the sales were FHA financed, two cash and one conventional mortgage.
The RMLS has just released the "market action" for our mountain area for Government Camp, Welches, Brightwood and Rhododendron listings and sales. This chart compares sales, listings and compares last year from this year at the same benchmark time.
Two numbers jump out at me in the stats. One is the increased marketing time for a sale and secondly the pending sale numbers down nearly 50%. We have historically low interest rates, excellent affordability levels yet buyers are not coming in to swoop up the deals. Some of the biggest names in real estate are saying this is the best time to buy property that we will see in our lifetimes. I'm speaking of Donald Trump, Barbara Corcoran, and John Paulson (who predicted the housing bubble).
Buyers should be jumping in and taking advantage of this time before interest rates creap up. Predictions are that they will hit 5.4-5.7% by the fourth quarter!
If you've ever experienced the beauty of the Resort at the Mountain in Welches you'll know why so many people move to the area and want to live in this community. The original golf course opened in the 1920's and now boasts 27 holes of fun.
The Resort has surrounding homes that occationally hit the market and right now the area boasts four currently for sale. Amenities include tennis courts, swimming pool, and nature trails. Check out these resort homes for sale
Weekend shoppers will love today's foreclosures in the Mt. Hood area located in Government Camp, Welches, Brightwood, Rhododendron!
Take advantage of 25 to 40% discounts by purchasing a foreclosure!
New cabin on the market! Here is a fantastic spacious cabin right on the Zig Zag River. And skiers will love that it's only about five minutes to the slopes. It's all been remodeled and updated and has one and a half baths. Vaulted ceilings in the living room and granite counter tops in the kitchen are just some of the bonus items in the cabin. Kids will love the bunkroom and spacious loft for movies, games and cards! Located in the Mt. Hood National Forest on leased land. Road 35 Lot 137
Asking $220,000
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Do you want to pay more taxes? The mortgage interest deduction is under attack in a big way. The NAR, National Association of Realtors, is asking for you to help send a message to your congressmen that you don't want this mortgage deduction to go away.
Here is a link to a quick message expaining what you can do just by sending an email.
It's tax time and not as many folks are out buying homes right now. Here is a laundry list of current pending sales in Government Camp, Welches, Rhododendron and Brightwood. Of the eleven pending sales there are five foreclosures. As we move into better weather and spring I expect activity to pick up.
BUILD A WALL OF HAPPINESS!
To affect the quality of anything first requires action of some sort. Affecting is the opposite of passivity. In a passive state we can only BE affected, but we ourselves have no effect on our surroundings or other people. Hold that thought for a moment and consider next the result of your "affecting."
Ambition leads to action. Your ambition leads you to affect the quality of the day through some action. So what is the ultimate result of your ambition transformed into action? Johnson suggests it is "to be happy at home."
If, as Johnson recites, being "happy at home" is the ultimate result of your ambition, then why are you working so hard? Is there a way to avoid working evenings and weekends? Could you schedule your child's soccer game into the week's plans? Is that next appointment more important than celebrating life with your spouse at anniversary time?
One way to affect the quality of your day, which in turn may result in happiness at home, is to "build a wall," to paraphrase Frost. Keep in mind that walls may limit you if they are constructed of heavy gauge steel and mesh rimmed with concertina wire. Walls can also be formed as a low hedge or a split-rail fence - even more simply as a line in the sand. Rather than limiting us, they become a mere reminder of how far we are willing to go.
As we affect the quality of our life and push our ambition to the limit, we may also make choices about the boundaries of our lives. By choosing sound principles of living, for example, we may say "No" to friendships with those who operate outside our boundaries of accepted activities. We may decline meaningless activities, or the occasional committee appointment, which robs us of our valuable time.
In the end, WE are solely responsible for affecting the quality of our individual lives. We must choose wisely.
Did a high school kid sign your foreclosure papers posing as a bank vice president? This recent 60 minute segment aired April 3rd explaining the pervailent fraudulent papertrail of bank forclosure paperwork.
As a follow up, do you know who ownes the deed to your home?
Do the banks need to create a superfund to deal witht his fraud?
Displaying blog entries 1291-1300 of 1924
