You'll probably want to go with a broker, most direct-to -customer insurance agencies deal more with SFRs.

Build spec and custom homes on the lots.

Did you have a custom laminate job?

"Encourage" clients to cancel listings with broker or new broker, and move with your friend.

As a Realtor, one would be working and spending time, gas and tolls showing properties and shooting emails/texts and the customer is not willing to sign a representation agreement and become a CLIENT.

Unless people have unauthorized pets, people over our occupancy standards, or a court eviction, we encourage everyone to fill out an application.

In almost every case the bank will pay the property taxes because it will come before the 1st mortgage and stick around even after foreclosure.The listing agent needs to include the $70k as a HUD expense for the short sale, or call the Customer Service Department and request they pay off the taxes.The listing agent is probably misguiding their client, because the property tax is part of the short sale so the seller should not be accepting reponsibility for the tax lien just by accepting your offer.

I'll try VM options later to test whether there is really a difference, but I'm determined to go with a service at first (IOW, please don't tell me to use GV and send everything to VM ;)I''ve researched a bunch of different services, but actual recommendations from real customers in our business are hard to come by.So, if you've used an answering service to field calls for your business would care to share your experience (good or bad), I'd love to hear it.My plan is to have the AS collect very basic info at first, basically asking for name, contact info and the address of the property so that I can do some research and call them back ASAP.So what's the skinny on answering services?

Here is one of our kitchens we did in Chicago. This was a 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house with an attached 2 car garage. It took us about 5 months close to close on this house.

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Very encouraging to see things are off to a good start for you!