This week was a good week. I am listing a condo and a short sale home. But that is not the great part. The best part of this week is that I got a hold of a list of foreclosures from my one of my title companies. This is great news because this is a list of what will be on the court house steps the first Tuesday of December. I have time to selectively go and see if any of these folks need any help to save their credit or home...
Going to be a busy weekend!
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San Antonio's jobless rate fell in October to 7%. The previous month registered 7.1%. San Antonio and the surrounding counties added about 1000 jobs last month. San Antonio according to Keith Phillips, a senior economist in San Antonio for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, thinks that Texas in general will start to flatten out and cities like San Antonio should start to see that change soon.
Government jobs showed an increase the last couple of months. Texas gained 41,700 jobs in October.
Looks like we are starting to see signs the light is around the corner. I for one have been using the extended tax credit to educate excising home owners the benefit for listing now.
Call or visit my web site for more info.
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It's cold and there is a lot to be thankful these days. I saw a stranger asking for money so I gave it to him. I saw a stray dog need some food so I gave it to him. I saw someone on the side of the road and they needed a ride, so i gave them a ride.
you may ask what does this have to do with real estate. We get so wrapped up in our business that sometimes we forget to smell the roses. Give because you can not because you have to! Give of your time, your money and your love! Next week is the annual Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner here in San Antonio, Texas.
I volunteer every year. I love to meet new folks! I love to do this dinner because they feed over 24000 elderly and folks that need help! here is a brief statement from the web site:
During the holiday season, many senior citizens are alone and cannot afford to prepare a holiday meal for themselves. In 1979, San Antonio restaurant owner and businessman, Raul Jimenez, recognized this need in his community and established a Thanksgiving Day event designed to serve these forgotten individuals.
Now in its 30th year, the Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner continues to provide senior citizens and less fortunate a place to enjoy a hot and nutritious turkey dinner with all the trimmings on Thanksgiving Day. Held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in downtown San Antonio, the event invites seniors to dine at a “community dinner table”, celebrate the holiday with their peers, and enjoy live music and entertainment.
The Dinner currently serves over 24,000 senior and needy citizens from San Antonio and the surrounding areas and has grown to be one of the largest Thanksgiving benefits in the country.
The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner is a San Antonio tradition that brings the whole community together.
Over 4,000 volunteers work to make this event possible. Volunteer Committee Members assist project management with the coordination of transportation, food preparation and service, beverages, decorations, event-day volunteers, entertainment, security, and clean-up.
Community and corporate volunteers assist with food preparation event week. Area school districts contribute student-made table decorations and hundreds of students help decorate the convention center. On Thanksgiving Day, volunteers gather to greet dinner guests, prepare and serve meals, and clean up at the end of the day.
This tradition is only possible with the assistance of corporate sponsors, foundations, local businesses, and private donors. Currently over 50 area companies provide goods and services to this worthy cause.
Last year, underwriters for the event included Valero Energy Corporation, The RK Group, Starbuck’s, Time Warner Cable of San Antonio, Sterling Bank, CPS, Humana, Tesoro Energy Corporation, The Honorable Dolph Briscoe, UPS, and the Roland Cisneros Family.
Time Warner Cable of San Antonio also provided free long-distance phone calls on Thanksgiving Day for all dinner guests wanting to reach loves ones throughout the United States and Mexico.
The City of San Antonio, a sponsor of 29 years, contributes the use of the Convention Center exhibit halls and kitchen facilities needed to host the event.
The San Antonio Spurs coordinate a Yam Drive by providing free tickets to fans who donate 10 cans or more of yams on select game nights. Other sponsors included The Roland Cisneros Family who donated over four hundred and fifty turkeys last year. Mrs. Baird’s Bread contributed over 24,000 servings of bread while Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Big Red provided beverages.
Local musicians also donate their talents to provide live entertainment for our dinner guests.
The San Antonio media plays a tremendous part in inviting Dinner guests, recruiting volunteers, and generating community financial support. All major English and Spanish print and electronic media provide story coverage throughout the month of November with special focus on Thanksgiving week.
Take time to hug, help and care! We do this for our clients. Now it's time to do this to someone who needs are help. Join me my fellow peers and lets make a difference. I encourage you to give of your time at a homeless shelter, a hospital or a animal shelter or just pic a organization that could use your help.
HAPPY HOLIDAY'S
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I am listing a home tomorrow and it's a short sale. I love short sale homes! I can't get enough of them. I really like the fact that I can help a seller and a buyer get what they need, a home at a good price. I received a call from an agent who was asking if I have a listing in a certain area. I let the agent know I will be listing a short sale home in a couple of days. They asked me how I work so fast with the bank. I said that I don't give out my business plan, but if he was having a hard time I would take over his listings and pay him a referral fee..Guess what he said he would call me back!
Short sales are not hard! There only hard for the folks that don't know what there doing. I even came across an agent who cut his commission from the seller just to take the listing. I asked him why? he said that the seller felt that I was giving him free business, because the seller was not making any money. Wrong attitude! I told a seller one time to keep his home, if he can! Or I can save there credit and they live to buy a home again in a couple of years. They agreed to list with me.
The #1 reason banks don't work well with so-so agents is because they get so-so info! there is a process. Like all process or inquires one has to put in the time and effort to make it work.
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The Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says, but most of those borrowers are on temporary trial plans that have yet to be made final.
As of the end of October, more than 650,000 borrowers, or 20 percent of those eligible, had signed up for trials lasting up to five months, the Treasury Department said Tuesday. The modifications reduce monthly payments to more affordable levels.
To make the change permanent, though, borrowers must complete a big stack of paperwork and show they can make payments on time. At the beginning of September, only about 1,700 permanent modifications had been made.
Nearly 920,000 loan modification offers have been sent to more than 3.2 million eligible homeowners. That works out to 29 percent, up from 15 percent at the end of July.
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