About Defiance County, OH

I thought you'd like to know. I was talking with a mortgage lender last night and she told me that a 30 year fixed rate conventional loan was at 4.875% yesterday. That's AWESOME! If you own a home and aren't planning on moving you might want to consider refinancing. If you are thinking about buying a home then now is the time!!!! This rate combined with the fist time homebuyer tax credit of $8,000 or the homebuyer credit of $6500, makes buying a home or even selling a home right now ideal. There are even programs in our area that you can buy the home with zero down and have no PMI and still get that rate and the rebates! If you're even considering buying, contact us and we can give you more details about all this.

Thanks,

Scott

Here are the market stats for the Defiance area this year from January 1 through November 8, 2009. These statistics are only for areas that would be considered Defiance, Ohio. If you would like stats for your particular area, just let me know and I can get them to you.

Total Homes Listed: 427

Avg. List Price: $109,209

Total Sold Units: 206

Avg. Sold Price: $94,456

Avg. Days on Market: 154

I will try and keep this up-to-date for you every week so you will have a better picture of what's happening in our market.

Thanks and have a great week!

scott

We had a great time at this year's Halloween parade. Here are a couple of pictures of us and our decorated cart. We ended up running out of candy and passing out all 500 of our flyers. We didn't have enough for the whole crowd. We'll plan differently for next year. I just want to say thanks for all of you who cheered us on and continue to support us. You can see more pictures on our Facebook page.

scott

Our first whole week in business has been absolutely crazy, but good. We stayed extremely busy trying to don the "normal" things you would need to do in a real estate company, but had to also do the things that don't happen except when you open one.

We finally received 11 yard signs today. We ordered 20 that were supposed to be here on Tuesday, but it all worked out just fine. Jeri, our sales rep, has been working real hard trying to get things done for us. Anyway, we placed our signs in the yards of the three listings we have and they really look sharp.

Tomorrow night is the annual Halloween parade here in Defiance. We have a cart all decked out and ready to go. It's a big deal here. If the weather cooperates there will be a few thousand people there. I can't think of a better way to start getting out the news that we are open than our parade. We'll be the talk of the town as people try and figure out who we are. We made 500 flyers to pass out and I have to give big props to Hill Top Printing as they pulled off a small miracle today in getting them done for us. I'd recommend them if you need something done.

I'll post after we get the pictures from the parade and I think you'd agree our cart looks GREAT! Dawn and Brittney Carpenter worked on it for several hours yesterday. Thanks you two!

If not too busy tomorrow night, come out to the parade and say hi. We'd love to see ya.

scott

It took some time and effort but our website is finally up and running. It's only running on about 70% of what I would like it to be doing but we couldn't wait forever.

The site's address is http://www.realtyfive.com/. I hope you mark it as one of your favorites and visit it often if nothing else than just to see what the changes are.

If you subscribe to this blog, the Realty Five Fan Page on Facebook or to our Twitter page you can receive the updates as soon as they happen.

The team is going to be sharing posting duties on this blog and you will soon be hearing from Dawn Carpenter and Karol Yeager. I feel blessed to have them as part of the team and am looking forward to our future. If you want to see our new pictures you can see them on our Facebook Fan Page. I think they turned out great. (Thanks Bob!)

Oh yeah, this post is supposed to be about our website. When you visit it you may be asking, "where's the home search tool?" Well, it wasn't forgotten it was just delayed. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, the Toledo Board of Realtors is in the process of getting a new multiple listing service for us. Because of that, we are stuck in the transition and cannot get the search tool until they get transitioned over. When we do, however, we have a great home search tool that we will be implementing on the site. I think you will really like it.

Anyway, take the website for a spin and let me know what you think. I'm looking for imput and ways to make it better.

Thanks,

Scott

As always you can contact me at scott@realtyfive.com