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Kansas City real estate and community news blog featuring Olathe and Overland Park, Kansas.
September 2009 - Posts
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After spending 4 hours previewing homes yesterday for a relocation home buyer coming into town today, I picked the top 8 homes to view. I mapped the homes out and scheduled my showings with the listing agents. Now I'm getting ready to head out for Read More...
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Persistence . . . Most don't have it, successful people do! This is going to be short because I need to get ready and head out to show homes. One of my clients this morning called me to let me know that I'm the most persistent people he knows. Read More...
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The Top 7 Reasons the $8,000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Should be Extended 7. All of the labor delivered through the sale of a home is LOCAL labor 6. Real Estate transactions generate more than 17% of the GNP 5. Ongoing real estate sales allow the Read More...
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Recently, according to Fox News, a group of people representing Dictator Muamar al -Qaddafi were unsuccessful in obtaining housing due to NY Realtor, Jason Haber. The group of people were pretending that they were representing a group from the Netherlands. Read More...
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The Kansas City Chiefs are doing to the fans what they did to their HUGE Corporate Sponsors Today's Kansas City Chiefs game was kind of boring until the last 3 minutes of the game. I guess the Chiefs fans felt that the millionaire football players Read More...
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The H1N1 Flu will Affect the Kansas City Chiefs Game Today! Between Friday at the local high school football game and Saturday afternoon I received 3 phone calls regarding friends selling Kansas City Chiefs tickets. I had a couple more people contact Read More...
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The Dowell Taggart Team has been working on a series of list that we will be introducing to the public in the near future. We have named our list, the Ultimate A List. Our list will include 60 subjects including area Kansas City businesses, top social Read More...
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Just Released: Kansas City is now accepting applications from home buyers for the Kansas City Dream Home Program. The program offers up to $20,000 down payment and closing costs assistance to qualified home buyers purchasing homes. For more information Read More...
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This past weekend was packed with lots of national and local activity. With so much do and watch what do you remember the most? Did you attend the Old Settler's Day events or the Patriots Run in Olathe? The area college football teams played. Kansas Read More...
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I opened my Gmail this morning and noticed that I had received 9034 email messages. Has this ever happened to you? At first I was kind of excited because I thought maybe my new marketing I started this week really connected with consumers. My excitement Read More...
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I know this is a big football town and I know how most people will answer this question, but I'm going to ask it anyways. Do you plan on watching the Kansas City Chiefs or the Tour of Missouri on Sunday? For the KC Chiefs it is the first game of the Read More...
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Is it Destiny or is it Facebook? Sometimes when things happen to me, I wonder why? Obviously, if it is a good thing, I would like to repeat the behavior that led to the positive reward, right? This morning was one of those morning where positive results Read More...
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RE/MAX Chairman and Co-Founder Dave Liniger met with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan on Friday. They had a conversation on a variety of topics related to the current state of the real estate market, but focused primarily on recommendations Read More...
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This week a friend of mine was telling me that their sons dormitory was closed down back east due to teh H1N1 Swine flu. A couple nights ago I heard on the news that the Swine Flu had hit the University of Kansas pretty hard. This evening I heard on the Read More...
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As I work on my schedule for my Friday morning Kansas City Networking Group meeting, my internet connection as been running sluggish. It is taking a couple minutes to open a single page on the internet. I've rebutted my wireless router a couple times Read More...
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During the month of September of 2009, Point 2 Agent is offering a huge discount on their Professional website package. With real time searching coming on strong and 87% of the home buyers going to the web to search for homes, all REALTORS should have Read More...
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The $8,000 tax credit has been going for this year and at the beginning of the year it had little affect on the housing market. We were getting offers that were consistently $20-30,000 under list price on first time home buyer homes. When April and May Read More...
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I found a great site today on the Federal Trade Commission website today regarding looking for the best mortgage. The link is http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/homes/rea09.shtm The FTC site goes over important cost information like rates, points, Read More...
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