Alison Creamer's Real Estate Blog

Just helped settle on a great home in the The Orchards at Glenwood in Virginia Beach. Community that is built by Chesapeake homes and Centex. I must say one builder was a lot easier to deal with then the other ! Over all it was better transaction then when the builders were having an extreme heyday with the buyers money.

Old house                 New House

Congrats Jeannette and Vin and family

Two tops tips for creating a relationship for life in sales

Tip #1: Think long term with every trasaction, sometimes you have to be flexiable to gain more in the future

Tip #2: NEVER EVER think you know what they want ASK ASK ASK !!

Inspired from Rismedia website

WOW have you ever heard of them ? I  opened up the local paper in Hampton roads and there was an story about being able to piggy back off of good credit !Basically you can buy spots on peoples good credit scores and jump yours up to 200 points in 120 days. 

They have a website but I tell you I would not suggest any of my buyers doing this. I worry if there credit is bad to begin with what will buying something they should not be able to afford do to them !

 Just my two cents

New report shows the media may be wrong about home prices !!!!!

Wow who has it right ? The new report does say there was growth just slower than it has been in 10 years actually reporting a growth of 4.3% .( stats are from OFHEO )

They have been tracking prices for over 30 years

National Association of Realtors reports there was a 1.8% decline in the 1^st qtr.

The difference comes from how it is calculated .One groups uses

differences in values when single-family homes are resold or refinanced.

NAR uses a different type of average for find value .