Karen Harrison

Are you considering a 2nd home purchase, a weekend get a way, or just that little place in the world that is yours? Look no further. Guntersville, Al or Scottsboro, Al is just the place. Both areas are mountainous and lots of lake properties. This is a year round destination with beautiful change of seasons, warm summer months, cold winters but not too cold, occassional snow, and gorgeous fall with the tree leaves turning all sorts of beautiful colors. In the spring there is not a better place to see all the new flowers blooming in a vast array of colors. There are activities all year long too. The spring time offers "Art on the Lake", there are lots of hunting and fishing areas for the outdoors people in your family. The small town of Guntersville offers several unique shops and the town of Scottsboro is a true southern town with the old town square still a large part of that shopping adventure. For those who like the malls of the big city, Huntsville is only a short 30 - 40 minute drive with different malls, lots of good food and the many attractions of the space and rocket community.

If you might be interested in looking at some of the properties that may be for sale in any of these great areas visit my web site. If you would like more information on Guntersville or Scottsboro areas visit Guntersville by clicking here or visit Scottsboro by clicking here. I hope you find valuable information and decide to give me a call if you come to visit our town. We hope you will find your 2nd home in our area.

Here on the Gulf Coast of Alabama we mostly deal with investment and 2nd home properties. In the past when the markets were stable or going through the roof we have never had to deal with short sales of foreclosures. When a market changes as Realtors all across the country well know, it is a time for new knowledge of how to handle new challenging situations. I am finding this to be true with short sales.

In my opinion, and I am certainly not an attorney..........but....I believe that if a "seller" "accepts" an offer "contingent on lender approval" that you have an accepted offer until something happens that may cause it to fall through. It is a contingency just like a mortgage contingency or a walk thru contingency. Now I realize it is much more complicated and time consuming than that. I showed a property last week and my buyer wanted to make an offer only to find out that there was another offer out there and the Realtor said "they will present all offers to the bank". Now if a seller has already accepted an offer are not all other offers only "back up" offers until the first one is either pushed through or denied??? The bank does not own the property, it is still owned by the seller and the seller has accepted the offer. Sure the seller should be presented with all offers. Should this property not be listed as "under contract". It is kind of mis leading to go show a property and get ready to write an offer only to find that there is another offer already in the short sale process.

This has happened to me one other time. With that process we were the accepted offer and a higher offer came in and we weren't even offered opportunity of "highest and best" just "hey we have a better offer now and seller is going with that one"........................... If your seller accepts a regular offer and then gets a higher one (not a short sale) does he have the right to back out and take the higher offer?? I don't think so.

Here is a list of foreclosure condos for sale in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Al. http://tinyurl.com/yhjgpwu If you would like to be included on my weekly update of foreclosures and sales in the area you can visit my web site at KarensGulfProperties or email me at kjharrison@gulftel.com

We have been seeing many great buys with the many foreclosures for sale along the Gulf Coast of Alabama. With in the last few weeks those foreclosures have begun to decrease. Every week I update those who would like to have my weekly report on sales and foreclosures in the area. For the last few weeks the number of foreclosures are definately down. If you would like to have a copy of that email and be updated on the sales for the week as well as the available forelosure listings in the Gulf Shores and Orange Beach areas please email me and I will be happy to add your email to the mailing.

If you want to have a view like this for a relaxing weekend at your leisure or for a permenant residence it is time to buy along the Gulf Coast of Alabama. The best deals are really getting picked over. If you would like to be updated on a weekly basis of currently sold prices or foreclosures that area available for sale please send me an email and I will add you to my weekly Gulf Coast Update