Andrew Monaghan CRS, GRI, EPro Associate Broker

One of my long term goals was to hike to Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back, my original goal was to hike down, take a few days to relax and hike out, well on September 26th my self and a few of my friends are hiking in and out in one day.

I am so excited to get to visit one of the natural wonders of the world.

I have just been introduced to the most fantastic product, its called http://slydial.com/, this product allows you to send a voice mail directly to a cellular phone.

This can allow you to keep in contact with clients, friends and so on quickly and easly, you can leave a voice mail without having to bother the reciepent.

Andrew Monaghan

Your Reo Source in the Phoenix metro area.

I have been noticing a trend over the past few weeks put extremely short times for accept ace on all offers, normal seller owned, REO and short sales, the logic is that if the seller responds outside the time the offer is dead.

Who does a tactic like this help, in my opinion it hurts the buyer, we are in a competitive market in the Phoenix metro area at this time and if there is no way to have a response in time the offer will not be acted upon, so by the buyers agent playing games to force a answer the buyer will loose out out on a home.

My sellers have instructed me not to play games like this, if we get a unrealistic acceptance time it is sent back to the agent with the request to have a realistic acceptance, why? so we have a chance to get a offer that will work accepted.

I hear this refrain all the time from buyers that cant seem to save up for a down payment or are always strapped for cash.

Cancel your newspaper, save about $4.00 per week or $200 per year.

Put in subscriptions for your favorite magazines instead of buying them in the supermarket, Save $3 to $4 per magazine per issue, assume you buy 5 magazines per month at $3.50 saving per magazine that's another $200 per year

Cancel the Gym membership and go for a walk instead, $30 per month 360 per year.

Cut out Starbucks or insert your favorite coffee location, tall skinny latte with a shot is about $4.00 with one per day that's over $1400 per year and we all know that often we add the cookie, pastry, juice or whatever.

Cut the bottled water form the convenience store and buy in bulk at Costco, Save over $1 per liter bottle, 2 per day comes to a further $700.

Brown bag your lunch 4 days per week, at about $10 per lunch that's $2000 per year

These few items save you over $4800 per year.

or a 3.5% FHA down payment on a $130,000 house.

All without changing your standard of living or making big changes to your life.

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