Traverse City, MI

Traverse City's 4th Annual Film Festival will be held July 29, 2008 - August 3, 2008.

This year will be highlighted by Madonna and her new film that will be shown at the restored State Theater. There will also be a big outdoor screen set up on West Bay that will be showing movies. This is a great festival that brings in thousands of people. There are still rooms available, but they are booking fast.

You can get more information on the Film Festival at www.traversecityfilmfest.org

Traverse City is one of the Greatest places to live in the country. If you would like more information on Traverse City and the properties available please give me a call or email.

Mike St. Peter - Greenridge Realty - 231-288-7879

mstpeter@greenridge.com

On Wednesday, May 7th team BlueLaVa packed up and hit the local Traverse City Board of Realtors trade show entitled Strawberries and Toast. This show is an annual event that typically brings several hundred Traverse City real estate agents and many vendors from in and around the Grand Traverse region. We were fortunate enough to be the only Traverse City virtual tour company to attend the show this year.

With Jim being what many would call a local living photography legend here in Traverse City, the people continuously flocked around our booth to see what new and exciting powerful property marketing tools were now available. For the most part people really loved the concept of our single property websites and our PanoRiders™. The next big hit of the show was our cute business card sized CD’s, Night Shots and our Blue Bird’s-Eye elevated shot.

Most of the attendees found that our offerings were priced very affordably and loved the fact that we are fully insured and have our lock box certification allowing Jim to move freely in and out of the homes during his virtual tour shoots. Shooting Traverse City virtual tours is one thing, but being able to offer a real estate agent an entire marketing program is another.

When we meet with a new customer for the first time we sit down and lay out all of our offerings that leave a lasting impression on a home seller and a shopper. We let the real estate agents embed our virtual tours and marketing tools right into their marketing pitch thus giving them the upper hand when it comes to leaving that lasting impression during a listing presentation.

Our unique offerings and beautiful interactive virtual tours are winning over new customers every day. Thanks to Jim Blue photography, the RTV virtual tour system, our powerful marketing tools and a little creativity BlueLaVaMedia is heading into what will be a great and profitable summer.

Until the next local trade show!

Good luck out there everyone.

Team BlueLaVa Traverse City Virtual Tours

www.BlueLaVaMedia.com

Order TC Virtual Tours - 231-941-1360

Vacant land prices in Northern Michigan (in particular the Traverse City Region) seem to be flat. I have not seen any major price drops on vacant waterfront property in the past year. In fact I have seen most prices hold firm. Unlike the stock market which can plummet on a frenzy of sales, land is different. In order from prices to fall you need to be able to sell.

Fortunately most people who own waterfront property are financially stable and don't need to sell. They have the option of waiting for the market to turn which seems to be the case. I will admit some developers are willing to slash huge discounts off property if a buyer makes an offer but they are not necessarily making this public by lowering the prices in our MLS.

RADISH, Traverse City's newest resturant is open for business! Located at 408 S. Union Street and specializing in local and organic food. They have a salad bar with 50+ items to choose from, two fresh soups daily and homemade organic tea.

Radish is just another reason to come and explore Traverse City!

To see all the homes in Traverse City check out http://michaelstpeter.point2agent.com or call Mike St. Peter 231-288-7879

This will be my first post of many and hopefully become a weekly and potentially daily habit for me.

I have been doing short sales now for about a year and quickly have made a name for myself as maybe Traverse City's leading expert on this topic. As you may know, short sales can be a very lucritive business, but it can also be a bust.

I would like let everyone know who I have worked with and what I thought about them.

A few are,

Ocwen, Wells Fargo, Countrywide, JP Morgan Chase, Huntington, and Option One.

I have had great success with Ocwen, but they have called it quits in this short sale dept. A few difficult ones were Countrywide, simply because of there size, and Huntington. The good thing about Huntington is if your a stock holder, you will be happy for there resistance on taking much less.

As far as smaller or local banks, I love working with them because the decisions are typically sooner than other, however, there ability, in my experience, to tkae a bigger loss is reduced.

I encourage questions regarding short sales or the foreclosure proccess. I will be hosting a Foreclosure Seminar on May 29th at the Traverse City Chamber building from 3-5pm. I am asking for RSVP due to seating.

Please RSVP to my email MHodges@TCExit.com

Thank you

Matt Hodges

231 624 1650

www.MattHodges.net