RISMEDIA, February 11, 2010—PODS, a leader in the portable moving and storage industry is now a member of the Realogy Franchise Group’s Preferred Alliance program, providing cost-effective solutions and co-branded materials to its networks of approximately 14,500 offices and 268,000 affiliated real estate brokers and sales associates.
According to the company, PODS has partnered with Realogy, [...]

RISMEDIA, February 11, 2010—Last year home staging skyrocketed to the top of the list of the fastest growing careers in America. In the decade ahead it is promising to be a rapidly evolving industry and looks to be one of the key solutions to solving the housing crisis.
“Sellers get the most they can for their [...]

RISMEDIA, February 12, 2010—Just over 40% of available homes for sale had reduced prices in January 2010, compared with 44% in December 2009, according to a monthly survey of home listings in 27 markets conducted by the national real estate brokerage ZipRealty.
With fewer reduced price homes available in January, sellers were able to ask for [...]

RISMEDIA, December 31, 2009—With a $569,000 Tampa home sitting on the market for a year and a half and no signs of a sale, Tracy Truitt was a disheartened Realtor looking for a new approach that would help her sell her listing.
Truitt, a Realtor with Century 21 Elite in Tampa, discovered Showhomes, a home staging company, [...]

Shasta (Southwest Redding – Redding, California, US)

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Imagine the possibilities with this large home! Oversized kitchen with pantry and island overlooks greatroom…pass-thru window to HUGE game room…french doors to patio area and oversized RV parking on side of home. Home does need some TLC and clean up.

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Shasta (Northeast Redding – Redding, California, US)

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Situated in the desired Gold Hills Golf community, this 2200 square foot home is sure to please! Featuring an extremely usable floorplan with four bedrooms, separate living, family and formal dining rooms and two baths. Oversized kitchen with plenty of cabinetry and breakfast bar overlooking nook area. [...]

Your pumped because you just bought your first house and now you are ready to collect your first time home buyer credit but
Without the proper documentation your IRS First-time Buyer Tax Credit will be delayed. Below are tips on what you need to gather before you make your claim. It is important that you provide [...]

As part of a community-wide effort, we are helping to spread the word!
As you may, or may not have heard, we have an opportunity to have Google put in ultra high speed internet wiring for free in Redding. They are doing it for only a handful of communities. Part of their determination will focus on [...]

More news from the tax front for homeowners in distress.  Apparently, last week on Thursday the California Senate voted 21 to 15 to approve legislation that would prevent homeowners who have had a foreclosure, loan modification or short sale from being required to pay state income taxes on the debt forgiven.
The next step for the [...]

Did you know that out of 321 listings that have sold (closed escrow) since January 1, 2010, 136 of them were REO’s (Real Estate Owned By The Bank) or foreclosures? Yep, that is almost one in three homes that have sold so far this year!
Our current market has a large number of distress [...]