The Agent Insider Blog

Proposed Rules for Seller Financing from the Federal Reserve Could Effectively End This Financing Option for Real Estate Sellers and Deny Buyers This Path to Home Ownership. Throughout history, the right of a property owner to sell their property on their own terms to a person of their own choosing has been unquestioned. Unbelievably, this [...]

I was recently quoted in an article featured on the site bankrate.com. The article covers some of the pros and cons when a seller uses ‘seller financing’ to help a otherwise unqualified buyer purchase a home. “Lance Churchill, an attorney and president of Frontline Real Estate Education Group in Boise, Idaho, says all sellers also [...]

I just created a short video that will help you find the rental sweet spot in your market. This is good information for you to help investors find profitable rental units or to pinpoint units for your own investment portfolio.

The problems with short sales; the delays, lack of response from servicers, lost files, reduced commissions, confusion, lack of uniformity, etc., etc. will soon all be solved.  Or at least the government says they will be.  On May 14, 2009 the Treasury Department announced that it would soon release new short sale rules, policies and forms for [...]

As a Real Estate Broker, Lender and Investor, I have worked the foreclosure and distressed property market for over three decades.  As you can imagine, I have seen many people come and go in real estate over the years.  One of the main reasons for people leaving real estate is that they either lack the [...]

With the cooling of the real estate market, the meltdown of sub-prime and option arm loans, rising unemployment and negative equity in properties, the number of homeowners that find themselves in foreclosure has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. And it is predicted that several million more homeowners will fall into foreclosure in the next two years. [...]