About Caddo Parish, LA

This is the most amazing time to be a home buyer in Shreveport Louisiana. Keller Williams Realty Northwest Louisiana and the www.shreveportagents.com team are here to help you through all the confusion of the mortgage industry and help you find the best deal, with the best mortgage rate, with the lowest fees in the least amount of time. That is more than a long sentence, it is our mission, to help you get into the house fast and for the lowest amount.

In the past three weeks, our team has been meeting with different lenders on a daily basis really learning the different programs each lender offers and understanding what is really happening in the mortgage world today. Just recently we met with a few men from Aulds, Horne and White, a local "lender" in the Shreveport area, and learned that they actually are lenders and not just brokers. Wow, we at www.shreveportagents.com were really shocked to hear that they do everything right here in Shreveport Louisiana! Most of the other people we have been meeting with are simply "brokers" and do not lend money on houses. If you did not already know, that means that when something goes wrong with your loan, your purchase, your dream...they get to point the finger to the real lender. What we have heard more than 10 times this year alone is "it is in underwriting". The truth on all those blown deals is that the loan could not get approved and it is easy to point the finger at "underwriting" instead of tell the agent and the client the truth.

This is a great time to buy a home in Shreveport and Bossier City Louisiana. Rates are low, prices are stable, time on market has been getting longer and the number of houses on the market seem to be growing. Take advantage of the market conditions and contact one of well trained team members at www.shreveportagents.com today.

Ann Tew, a long time resident of Shreveport Louisiana has recently joined the office of Keller Williams Realty Northwest Louisiana in Shreveport Louisiana. Ann, who is no stranger to real estate or business recently decided to use her years of experience in business and her love of real estate to become a real estate agent. Ann Tew can be reached on her cell phone at 318-208-0651 or at the Keller Williams Realty office at 318-213-1555.

Ann is going to specialize in helping builders get spec and custom homes sold. For the past few years she has lived very close to Cross Lake, so she can assist buyers looking at lake homes. Ann has tremendous talent in staging and decorating homes as well. Ann can assist anyone in the Shreveport and Bossier City area buy or sell a home.

We welcome Ann Tew to real estate and to Keller Williams Northwest Louisiana.

Welcome Michelle Reliford to the office of Keller Williams Realty Northwest Louisiana in Shreveport Louisiana. Michelle has been in real estate for a couple of years and loves to help buyers find the home of their dreams and take care of all the details of becoming home owners. Michelle also loves to help sellers in Shreveport and Bossier City get top dollar for the home they are selling and sell in a short time period! Michelle comes to Keller Williams from Century 21 Stan Cole and Associates. Michelle moved to Keller Williams Northwest Louisiana because she was starving for training and decided it was time to join the premiere real estate training company in North America. Michelle would love to bring her drive, determination and passion to your life and help you in your next real estate transaction. Michelle can be reached on her cell phone 318-799-7569 or at the Keller Williams office in Shreveport 318-213-1555.

We are so excited to have Michelle Reliford on the Keller Williams Realty Northwest Louisiana team!

February 29, 2008 we had a WONDERFULLY POWERFUL Keller Williams ALC clinic held in New Orleans, LA. Mo Anderson was the speaker. The KW Northwest Louisiana market center was recoginized for launching in the fourth quarter of 2007 and has already seen amazing results within the community. Scott Friestad, OP of the market center has unified a strong core group to continue the recruiting.

Local owners include: Fred Beecher, Scott Friestad, Chris Hayes, Gail Mitchel and Jonathan J. Newton. We all have seen growth in our business and would encourage anyone looking to join the KW culture to jump in "head first", it is a GREAT ride!!

Jonathan Newton ,Team Newton, was interviewed by Mo Anderson at the ALC Clinic and was excited about the change and thanked Mo Anderson and Gary Keller for growing this company and giving him the opportunity to help other struggling real estate agents in the Shreveport/Bossier City area. "Education is first in this business and Keller Williams recognize the importance", Newton said.

for more information you can visit online at http://www.teamnewton.com/

Today is March 1st and the housing market in Shreveport and Bossier City seems to be as strong as ever. My wife, Kerry Friestad and I are both very active real estate agents in the area and she has had at least 5 offers in the past 3 weeks not get accepted because the sellers had multiple offers to look at. Just yesterday, a bank owned property that has been on the market for over 100 days, multiple offers in the $150,000 were presented! Kerry's client really wants the house so offering full price and asking for no closing costs should do the trick! I was thinking this morning, what if the housing market returns to the 2004-2005 level in Shreveport and Bossier? Wow, multiple offers...and great offers non the less on many homes and during a time in which lending standards are higher than every...What an awesome business to be in.

For those of you that are not seeing a great real estate market...I would suggest changing what you are looking at every day. Focus on the reality of the market and see some amazing things happen.

My wife and I love real estate, we love Keller Williams, and we love Shreveport Louisiana!