Houston Tx Homes of Luxury decked out for Halloween. We drove through the River Oaks community and spent a while photographing and videotaping sights of the luxury home community of Houston. Most lots were around 1 to 3 acres- some larger. It seemed that most homeowners decided to deck out the yard and house for Halloween. Wealthy as the Houston luxury neighborhood was, it didn’t stop a lot of down-home decorating complete with witches, goblins, pumpkins and typical fall cornucopia and at least one giant purple spider that spread across a whole roof.

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So we have an agent who does not have a clue nor does this agent even seem to care that this man is going to lose his home to a foreclosure and a short sale company who is illegally handling or should I say NOT handling his short sale and giving him incorrect information about his foreclosure status. 

Who writes this on their blog except someone who really cares about what happens to the homeowner? 

Top Wellington short sale agents, Nestor and Katerina Gasset.

New morning today, won’t you see things a better way. 

Can’t you see what this economy has done to me? 

New Day – Lenders start to see things your way.

Florida foreclosures in Palm Beach County top 14,500. What kind of crazy real estate nightmare is this?

Get the anti-foreclosure team. Wellington FL Short Sale Agents fight for you.

A short sale may be your best option. How do you know? What kind of agent can both sympathize with your plight and provide the capability to drive a complicated Gainesville short sale to success?

Meet Stephanie Anson. A Gainesville short sale agent, Stephanie knows your dilemma in a personal way. She has been through the short sale process herself. Read about it on her website. She’s able to feel what you feel and she knows the system and can help you out.

Compassionate and concerned, she is committed to making a difference in her own community and aiding in other charitable efforts worldwide.  She serves as a member of the Rotary Club and Gainesville, FL Chamber of Commerce. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her family, watching Gator Sports, fishing, camping, teaching and public speaking.  She feels her most important seminar as a Gainesville, FL short sale agent is teaching about the short sales themselves and how to avoid foreclosure.

The agent was well spoken and seemed to know her way around real estate. A “Been selling homes here forever” type, she assured them she’d be more than able to take care of their Wellington short sale listing. The home was listed and the usual short sale hardship letter went to the bank and a short sale approval was the happy news back from the lender. Things were looking up for the homeowner who almost breathed a sigh of relief. Offers started to come in on the home. A little on the low side but offers are a good thing, right?

Sixty days later the home foreclosed.

How on earth did this happen?

One particular to Wellington short sales of concern to home buyers is whether or not they can negotiate the price of Wellington short sales. As in any short sale, the owner is the owner. They set the sale price and a buyer can ask them to lower it. A bank involved can just as easily ask the buyer to pay more before approving the sale. Since you’re negotiating with the seller and not with the bank, this can become a less than streamlined process for lots of reasons, not the least of which is the current psychology and grasp of the seller and the seller’s agent (especially if they’re green to short sales) as to what’s really going on. A bad or unknowledgeable agent on the other end can make life miserable for everyone including you. Miserable as in the pits of despair and the dreaded notice of sale showing up at your door or mailbox. Surprise! You just became another inexperience generated short sale statistic.

Now, this can all be most often avoided by having experienced Wellington short sale agents on your side. Not experience like 2 or 3 short sales all year, but 2 or 3 dozen short sales every year for three, five and seven years running in the Florida market.

Now, a buyer and seller can dance around the contract and price issues and the predictable bank responses to low-ballers, etc. or you can work closely with experienced Wellington short sale agents, or at least the agent that’s in your corner- buyer or seller, should be experienced, and get down to brass tacks.

Like all short sales, Wellington short sales are not guaranteed by any stretch. The lender may reject the sale for any reason. If you have one of the many capable-to-do-regular-sales agents but inexperienced Wellington short sale agents then go home, do nothing and eat microwave pizza- and sugar. You’ll be better off. But, if you’re serious about selling or buying a Wellington short sale home, then you’d better have a good agent in your corner with lots of experience- not some two bit “I listed my first short sale home in 2011.” agent who is more bluster than substance. It’s your home and it’s your risk of slipping right on into full-blown foreclosure because your agent turns out to be a sheep in wolves’ clothing trying to negotiate with banks and lenders.

There’s someone else to deal with too, besides the lender, and that’s the seller and buyer. These transactions, improperly managed are the drivers of high statistics of short sales that never close. (Think about it. What happens next? – foreclosure)

Here is where the inexperienced agent will start throwing around numbers like $300,000 blah blah blah, but your house isn’t a number and neither are you. You’re someone who wants above all else not to have a foreclosure on their credit report when it’s time to buy a new home.

Experience counts, folks, and lack of it on the part of your Wellington short sale agent can land you in the “I’m feeling unlucky” file of lenders and loan processors- just where you don’t want to be. Don’t kid yourself. Lenders get a sense of when things are going right and when they’re going wrong and they don’t have all day to entertain your cause, whatever it may be, so they just move forward with their gut instinct and experience. Best to have an agent who has been working local short sales who can demonstrate a track record of success over one, two, five and more years with numbers of short sales closed to back up their big claims about expertise.

For experience 7 years running with dozens of annual successful closings, contact Wellington short sale top pros, Katerina and Nestor Gasset. Call 

This morning I woke up reluctantly from the avoidance tactic of sleeping as long as possible to the mega human-mutating, death inducing common cold of the season- the one that ruins a holiday if you catch it two days before one. Lucky for me it’s still two weeks until Christmas so all it will ruin is my productive money earning capacity just at the end of the Christmas shopping season, requiring me to work twice as hard to get the same amount of work done.

Anyway, throat raging and general green body fluids in full production, I decided to look around the house for some of that zinc zycam or zicam stuff and see if it helps.

Found. Oooh that burns a little. Must be good to go.

Then I start to remember talk about it being proven not to work. Well, right now it feels good, burning and drying away my sinuses. Anything that changes the onward march of a new cold in all it’s human killing strength has got to be some good, right?

I get curious. Could Zicam be something that reduces a cold’s duration? I need all the cold-free time I can get. Off to the web I go, lookup “does Zicam work?”

Temporarily stunned, my sinuses revel in the relief the nose gel brings. Then I read an article that says the FDA warns about gel in particular. It can produce long term or even permanent loss of smell. Heeding the advice whether or not it applies only to idiots who use the gel every 15 minutes as a topical anasthetic, I go to the sink and half inhale warm water through my nose, rinsing out the now top 10 Hazmat dangerous chemical back out. I doubt it can be that dangerous if the company is still in business, but legally, everyone has to cover their butt, so if a rhesus monkey can’t smell bananas any more after ingesting 2.5 metric tons of Zicam, I’d better not take any chances.

The anesthetic properties of the zinc are starting to wear off now and I can smell my coffee.

Hey, my wife teaches 4th grade. I wonder if she can come up with a better remedy than Airborne?

More zinc anyone?

Orange County Baby Shower Photography by Dave Keys

If you want to fall from Google page one to page five in search results, follow this example. Otherwise, follow some real estate SEO expert advice and avoid this practice like the plague. Google is getting better at finding poor SEO practices and discounting them. It may seem like a penalty, but it’s more like an equalizer. Google determines that if your one-trick-pony is your sole SEO strategy, your real estate website is probably not as valuable as other real estate websites and a downgrade is surely on the way for you.

Your real estate website is on Google’s radar all the time and the Boilerplate Anchor Text algorithm along with Panda and a host of other analyses of your on-page and off-page SEO is always ongoing. If you’ve been risking your website with poor SEO practices frowned on by Google then any short term gain you may have obtained is probably going to turn in to long term pain when the machines of Google’s 200+ algorithms catch with you. Why not get the right kind of SEO strategy now? Contact Real Estate SEO expert Dave Keys at 714-222-7961.

Denver Homes with Pool and Mountain Views anyone?

Case in point: There are over 2,500 links to the top website for Denver real estate. These are only the latest. The site has been receiving links over time, Majestic SEO shows around 28,000 back-links gained and many lost, over the last year. Even if those links drop off the sites they were on, Google has a good memory. The links aggregate over Google’s favorite algorithm- TIME. That’s right. SEO and linkbuilding in particular work best over time. A fact that many agents don’t always recognize when they launch a new site and then offer up a few back-links from blogs they control. That is not going to get you far in a short time in a major market. That’s just the simple truth. 

If you want to seriously rank, you’ll need to embark on a serious online presence and in major markets, a serious professional grade, quality white hat SEO campaign to overcome what competitors have done over the long haul. There are no shortcuts in Denver or New York or any real estate market that is of any value. The search volume is just too high for serious real estate marketers to ignore. Take a look at Denver’s monthly real estate search:

Now, that’s just too much virtual lead capturing conversion potential and wealth to ignore and you can bet that top players are going to invest heavily into obtaining it. If you want to compete directly, that’s the ranks you’ll have to join to be seen for general real estate terms.

On the other hand, there are plenty of niche opportunities in every market as I have so frequently demonstrated in many major markets.

Remember that text I inserted above?

Denver Real Estate with Pool and Mountain Views anyone?

You see this line isn’t exactly the same as the first. I exchanged homes for real estate. Well, I’m giving away a not so closely guarded secret here. Google loves synonymous terms and semantic references to meaning. That indicates natural human behavior and is a known component of its current algorithm for ranking websites for good content.

If you’re serious about SEO then get ready for some serious work and investment or to be seriously left behind by those who do.

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An off the beaten path getaway where mornings greet you with the shifting hues of aqua and blue as the sun rises on another of the Florida coast’s perfect days. Winter and Summer the ocean moderates the temperatures from the extremes felt just a few miles inland. A resort at home if you can find it. 

Recommended team of realtors for the perfect Ponte Vedra real estate? Saint Johns Realty. 

Call them up. You can reach them here:

The McCarthy Group 
Sawgrass Corners Office Building 10033 
Sawgrass Drive West 
Unit 125 
Ponte Verde Beach, FL 32082

Phone: (904) 280-0050
Fax: (904) 280-0066
Additional: (904) 612-2214

You can count on it- Mom will love it too! Who wouldn’t like a Ponte Vedra house on the ocean?

Don’t miss out on a chance for a Mother in law house for mom or guests!

Vero Beach house on the ocean just a little south of here…

There is something new to discover and explore in south Florida real estate on Jeff’s site, virtually every day.

Find Waterfront properties with back yard docks in Admirals Cove

Jeff’s website for Abacoa: http://www.jeffrealty.com/abacoa

I’ll just post there and leave it up to others to find me through GOOGLE PLUS!

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I’m sitting here using up public Wi Fi and a whole table for the price of breakfast. My waitress has filled my coffee about 8 times and shows no signs of being annoyed at me taking up real estate here.

The Swing Inn Cafe is a relaxed easy going place with plenty of seating. You can pick any spot you like. Friendly conversation fills the air and it’s a great place to just hang out.

The food? The best! Basics like eggs, ham, sausage, toast and a full fare of lunch and dinner items fill the menu in generous varieties and servings.

Many of the folks here are regulars and know each other and the staff.

Whoever runs this establishment has hit on a perfect formula and the customers prove it every day. Oh yeah, the prices are excellent too!

Tip your waitress.