All Forum Posts by: Mimi Booker

Originally posted by @Judy Parker:

Do you work FOR FREE? How about signing a Buyers Agency agreement first, to guarantee that you will pay that agent. Then, perhaps, you may have some credibility.

 Wow!  Nice attitude you have, glad people can see your true colors here.  What's wrong, did my post hit home?  

Oh, and heck no will I do that.  You work for me, and if I don't like you I for sure will not hire you.

Recent observations of mine in dealing with Real Estate agents:

(I currently do not have one, so as I'm looking for properties I've been calling on the selling agent, then if I like him/her I plan to use them as my buyer agent)

1.  On Saturday I requested (via email) more information on about 25 properties for sale on Zillow.  As of noon today, 6 agents have replied.  Only 2 seemed interested, the others were just generic reply emails.  Guess everyone is too successful to want a new client...

2. Went to see an agent to show me several properties last Tuesday. Met at her office, printed off some listings from MLS, mapped out a plan to see them. Then she asks me if I could drive us since her car was full of personal belongings. I will NEVER contact this agent again.

3. Visited with an agent upon a recommendation from my loan officer.  Asked her to show me 3 properties in The Woodland that I'm interested in.  The whole time she kept trying to convince me to look at a few properties in Spring (nearby, but NOT The Woodlands; locals know what I mean).   Very uncomfortable since I told her I'm only looking in The Woodlands, she wouldn't listen.  Found out later that she was the listing agent on those properties in Spring, so was trying to steer me to those to get double commission.  Will NEVER contact her again, although she already mailed me a calendar with her scheming face on it.  Threw that away real quick.

I'll keep looking until I find an agent who will LISTEN to what I want, ACT professional, and heck even RESPOND to an email.   Who thought this would be so hard?

The end is nigh!  Hoarde silver, gold, and canned beans!  Lock your doors!

Or not.  Don't listen to naysayers, don't listen to 'get rich now' Sayers, stick somewhere in the middle.  Life goes on.

Also looking for Palm Beach county.

No equity, house is 3 years old.

I just attended our monthly HOA meeting, where I found out that the HOA is about to foreclose on a house. The house is vacant, and the bank has not started foreclosure yet.

If I can reach the owner, is there any possible way to take ownership here? Perhaps a quit claim deed where I pay the past due HOA fees? Or is it too late since its obvious the bank foreclosure will be happening soon?

Ah OK, I misunderstood, sorry.  But you said this: 

We sold our home 2 yrs ago and bought house for daughters to live in in Mesa Arizona for a future investment before we knew he was sick.

Makes more sense now, good luck.

I'll state the most obvious starting point since nobody else has: Sell the house in AZ! You bought it for your daughters when you thought life was treating you well. Now that you're in a pinch, sell that house and your daughters can either rent or buy their own house like the other 99% of us do. I can't say I know 1 person who was given a house by their parents.

Originally posted by @Jon Klaus:

I don't know if he would consider the gulf coast, but there is some value from Texas to Florida. Galveston is pretty interesting because there are low-priced properties just blocks from the beach.

 Ugghh...From someone who was in FL and now in TX, I can say that Galveston doesn't come close to the beaches anywhere in FL.   In fact I've been to Galveston ONCE and will never go back there.  Old, dirty, sad town.

Can you explain the 'equity pledge' as the down payment?