Mike’s Real Estate Show

Working with Bank Owned properties and/or “Short-Sales” its kinda like the Wild West out there nowadays. I think we all have “vented” our frustrations as how quickly contract law, ethics, timeliness, etc have all been thrown out the window by some of the Assett Managers for the duration of this shakeout in “Short-Sales” and Foreclosures. Read the rest of this entry »

Information on non-conventional loans
The “HOPE Hotline” (1-888-995-HOPE or www.995HOPE.org), which provides free mortgage counseling 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A website with helpful information for prospective homebuyers, as well as homeowners who are experiencing difficulty in keeping payments current: www.yourhome.ca.gov and the Spanish language version: www.sucasa.ca.gov.

For info about the North West Santa Rosa Neighborhood Assosiation, call Allison Norman at 707-799-3617 or email her at:  info@AlliNorman.com. You can also visit her web site: www.AlliNorman.com . For further information on starting your own Neighborhood Associaton go to the following web site: www.NorthWestSantaRosaHomes.com. thanks or listening today!          

Here is the “Living with Fire in Sonoma County” booklet. I reccomend it highly. CLick on the link below and download the copy and read and IMPLEMENT the advice on your rural property: http://www.firesafesonoma.org/pdf/living_with_fire_2005.pdf

We have 2 goals:
Collect $100,000 for scholarship funding by March 31, 2007.

Listeners,

Rusty Simmons, of Simmons Real Estate in Solano County, is heading up this worthwhile project. If you’ve some funds directed towards non-profits, what better way than to help a young student advance their education. Please give it a look. Rusty’s contact information is at the end of this post.
Award 50 scholarships of $2000.00 each to Northern Solano County graduating high school students by June 2007.
To be instrumental in assisting graduating high school seniors in their exciting and challenging pursuit of college education by providing financial assistance for their introduction and transition into the college environment.
Scholarship recipients and their families are inspired and motivated upon notification of a scholarship award. Recipients are excited and honored and feel a sense of accomplishment and acceptance. These awards will help to relieve some of the financial and emotional burdens these students have while preparing for and entering into their chosen colleges.

Our hope and anticipation is that these awards will be instrumental in providing the students with additional opportunities to realize a successful college experience.
Project Coordinator: Rusty Simmons [707-449-4663].
40 volunteer members from the local real estate industry are involved in the project, and are actively identifying and locating scholarship fund donors.
Volunteers locate 5 people each that are touched and moved by the project cause and inspired to participate with a minimum donation of $500 each.
Volunteers attend weekly meetings and work in committee groups of between 5-6 people.
Scholarship recipients will be determined through an application and interview process.
Public relations and marketing tools have been developed to assist the volunteers with their efforts to obtain donations.
All donations to be received by March 31, 2007.
Donations are to be made payable to the Solano Community Foundation (1261 Travis Blvd., Fairfield, CA 94533), a non-profit 501 (C)(3) organization. Fund Code “REAL” . See: I want to Donate for the donation form
All donations are tax deductible and can be paid by check, Mastercard, Visa, Discover Card and American Express.

Listeners,

Find below a link to the Sonoma County Assesor’s office which will help you understand Prop. 60 and 90 for taking your old Tax base with you when you do a property sales witin our County and what Counties statewide allow this special “once in a lifetime” tax deal!

http://www.sonoma-county.org/Assessor/HTML_Documents/WaystoSave/ReplacementRes.htm

We discussed a Senior scam (actually it’s for all ages of folks who own real estate) and related the story of a letter being sent to homeowners warning they should have a verified Trust Deed for their property. If you own your property Free and Clear you no doubt have it filed away in a strongbox somewhere. If you don’t–just call the County of Sonoma Assessor’s office and they’ll get you a copy for $10.00. The letter making the round of mailboxes wants a “mere” $80.00 for this!! Save your money!

  But for any scams and to help a Senior we want you to keep the Council On Aging telephone number nearby. If you have a lonely senior in your neighborhood, drop in on them and see how they are doing. Query them as to any finance pitches, handyman scams, etc, they might have been approached to use. The Council on Aging numbers are: 707-525-0143 and 800-675-0143. Hope this helps. Also, adopt a lonely senior in your neighborhood. Invite them to dinner, check on their diet, health. Do they knowledge of “Meals on Wheels” which is provided by the Council? Many fail to eat or excersize. Take them out for a walk! It’ll do you both good.