Geoffrey Lamb

I am sooo over leadstreet and i couldn't be happier. I have been working for years to keep my Charlotte NC Real Estate website at the top of rankings but then to have all my clients say that they hate the search feature and would rather use Allen Tate!! Arahhh! :-) I'vbe been fighting Ecare at RE/MAX ever since the change to the inferior IDX solution but they don't seem to care. I really think e-neighborhoods is paying them to use it (or something) because leadstreet sucks and it's so beneath RE/MAX to use such garbage as thier primary search tool. I just switched over to an independent solution from www.idxbroker.com. It's fully customizable and has lots of cool stuff that leadstreet was totally missing. Especially in the back office part where I can track my visitors every click and see what they did, even when they don't give me many details. Plus, it juts looks nicer and has more features, basically what you'd expect from today's technologies. You should check it out, it's really cool! Just go to my site for Charlotte NC Real Estate. Bye for now!

Pre-foreclosures are on the rise, as are the rest of those types of properties that exist as a result of unethical lending practices and new homes sales techniques. We listed 7 new pre-foreclosure short sales just last week and I hear it every single day from some new distressed homeowner. How they paid 10% too much for their home because the new home builder told them it'd be a great investment or their loan adjusted to 12% making monthly payments impossible. We do have a problem with Short Sales but it's not the agents who are helping these people out of a bad situation who are at fault, it's those people who got them there in the first place. Sure we can say that personal responsibility would help to prevent someone's home from becoming a pre-foreclosure but the truth is, many people just aren't that educated regarding these issues. They barely understand high school math, (not being mean, just a fact) so they have no hope with the residential loan application. But whomever may be to blame for the rise in Charlotte pre-forclosure listings , the fact remains that our economy stinks and a lot of damage was done over the past few years by the lending and new construction industries. The'll be a lot more short sales in Charlotte NC coming soon.

If you happen to be an investor who's looking for an undervalued property, or an agent with investor clients, we have possibly more pre-foreclosures (that you can actually buy) than anyone else. Since we list (on average) about one new pre-foreclosure home per day, we maintain a mailing list of investors and their agents who receive first notification of these homes, even before we place them in the MLS. Just visit www.PreForeclosureWorks.comfor a comprehensive list of our preforeclosure listings and also our sign-up sheet.

Wow, I knew keeping up this Charlotte homes for sale blog would be hard to impossible and I was right. I think its been a long time since my last post about Charlotte NC real estate but I'm going to try harder. I may even have to pay someone to do it for me but I'm sick of bouncing around in the rankings. My site, www.lambrealtors.com was #6 at Yahoo for Charlotte NC Real Estate and overnight it dropped off the top 100. What the hell? I didn't really make any changes to the content of the site, just the flash header but now, they don't like me anymore. Still have all the same information about homes for sale in Charlotte NC, just not the same rank. We'll fix it but it has to start with more blogging, they all seem to like them a lot. Anyway, more to come!