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Feel so groovy this Valentine’s Day

By Kerry ONeal

Happy Valentine’s Day 2012!

We are a real estate company built on the relationships and trust of our clients. Whether you’re buying a home, buying commercial real estate, or selling property of all kinds, we thoroughly enjoy working with each and every one of you and we are proud to represent your interests in real estate as if they were our own. We take buying and selling real estate very seriously and realize many of your property endeavors are the most important financial decisions you will ever make. At the same time, we like to keep humor alive in all of our dealings so you, the client, know us on a personal level. We also want to take the opportunity to let you know we recently expanded the markets we work. Due to popular demand and our clients needing our service throughout Oregon, we now have an additional resource for Oregon real estate searches. This new real estate search site is built with cutting edge property search software and extremely easy to use. Want to search for land for sale in Portland? Looking to buy a commercial building in Roseburg? Need a condo in the Pearl District? Want to acquire rental property in Beaverton? This site can help. And of course, you can use our new and improved site for all of your Central Oregon property needs.

We really hope all of you appreciate the work that went into this Valentine Day’s video. Just finding that outfit in Josh’s size wasn’t easy. And then the make-up, choreography, rehearsals…it’s just what we’re willing to do to make sure we get results. Thanks for being a client.

Special note from Josh:  I just want to thank Kerry for being so patient while I tried on outfit after outfit.  It is difficult being the star of these videos (especially when I have no say in the part I play:)

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Josh Survives Dog Attack

By Kerry ONeal

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Central Oregon K-9 Trials June 25th

By Kerry ONeal

Central Oregon K-9 Trials
Sponsored by Strategic Realty

June 25th 12:00p-3:00p
Mountain View High School

Strategic Realty is proud to be a sponsor of the 2011 Central Oregon K-9 Trials. Bring the whole family and watch these expertly trained teams of canine and handler go through their paces at Mountain View High School. Be sure to get their early so you don’t miss Realtor Josh Hansen donning the suit and trying to outrun an angry dog. To watch the full video on last years K-9 Trials, please click here.

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Happy St. Patty’s Day!

By Kerry ONeal

Have a great St. Patty’s Day- From Kerry O’Neal and Josh Hansen.
See other fun videos we’ve created for your enjoyment (many times at our expense:)

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Fells Wargo

By Catherine

I sell homes in Bend Oregon.  Homes for sale in Bend have finally started moving at a very healthy pace.  But today, though not as frequently, we still deal with short sales and they are still extremely trying events.  For those of you frustrated with short sales (still), this should help you feel not so alone in the frustration and hopefully give you a smile at the same time.

This post was going to be about the US Treasury allocation of funds and then Wells Fargo asking for documents (documents they already received) and corrections to documents for a short sale.  But instead, I’m going to focus on the short sales first, before I move on to the US Treasury (which, if the Treasury would do, might help the housing market).

I sent in a myriad of documents for a current short sale.  Wells Fargo confirmed receipt and then assigned me a “pointman” (more like a dullman).  He then asked me for several documents he already had.  Easy enough to believe and not much further explanation needed.  Here comes the fun part.  He sent me an email asking for some corrections to the already collected documents.  I’m going to call these “Brutals”.

Brutal #1:   “Pointless in Seattle” states in an email: “The HUD1 states a sales price of $X and the sales agreement shows $X+$6k and these numbers need to match (for those of you that don’t know, a HUD1 is a statement issued by an escrow company showing the exact breakdown of costs/credits at the closing of a real estate transaction).  These need to match.  So I open the file I sent him and check both the price on the HUD1 and the sale agreement and guess what?  Yep, they match.  That’s what I get for sending mixed messages,  I mean, the HUD1 says:

“Contract Sales Price:  $X,000”  and the Sale agreement says “…for the purchase price (US Currency) of…..$X,000”.  Actually, now that I just typed it, the (US Currency) thing is a bit confusing…  I wish google had a construction paper email body with giant color Crayons and a pretty color palette so I could draw pics for this person.  Actually, Crayons wouldn’t help because he wouldn’t read that either.  Where’s the rubber stamp when you need it?

Brutal # 2  “Dullness in Delaware” writes: “The buyer’s preapproval letter must show that he is getting a loan for at least 60% of the purchase price.”  Second sentence, second! of the preapproval letter:  “The loan is a conventional  conforming…with 10% down”!  Well, he can read but doesn’t and can’t add or subtract to save his life.  Thank goodness the banks received all of that cash from the government so they can hire people who can actually count to a hundred.  I was waiting for him to bust out the line from Gladiator “Are you not entertained???”  End of Rant.  Later.

footnote:  I have worked with many banks and many negotiators.  Their desks are piled high with as many as 100 files at a time.  And not all of them are the same.  If you are a negotiator or other employee at a big bank,  I am not knocking you.  Your company, yes.  And for untrained employees and negotiators of banks in general, at least be kind and don’t lie.  It only makes you look worse.

For more articles and blog by Strategic Realty, please visit our Bend Oregon real estate blog here:)

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