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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – REO properties vs. foreclosure

September 3, 2008

An REO is a foreclosure-gone-bad. This is how I see it. The acronym stands for Real Estate Owned, which really doesn’t convey the true meaning of the term. In fact an REO is a real property that is now owned by the bank, or the mortgage company or the financial institution after an unsuccessful foreclosure [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Renting out your property – pros and cons

August 20, 2008

Your personal character plays an integral part in renting out your Irvine property to total strangers. You have no idea who the tenants are, therefore you take a risk. To minimize this risk, you have their credits, places of employment and monthly incomes checked, and perhaps interview them personally in order to build an impression, [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – When to buy property

August 18, 2008

For an investor in Irvine properties there is no such thing as bad times. Fluctuating times, yes, but not bad times. An established investor harvests his or her crop during sellers’ market period and sows the seeds during buyers’ market time. The only drawback may be the ability to forecast Irvine real estate market situation. [...]

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Irvine Real Estate link, CA – Banks and foreclosures

August 13, 2008

I don’t want to insult the intelligence of the reader, but there are folks who don’t know what foreclosures mean, and for the benefit of those few I would like to define this term in the layman’s language. When one borrows money from a financial institution to purchase a property and for some reason or [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Effects of adverse economic situation

August 7, 2008

As we are all aware of the slow real estate pace not only in Irvine, Orange County, but across the board, many brokers and real estate professionals believe in changing course in order to put bread on their tables. Some may not be as hasty as to quit the trade altogether yet others simply give [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Choosing the right agent

August 5, 2008

If—and this is a BIG if—you are able to choose the right real estate professional, commonly known as agent or broker, might make a world of difference in your endeavors in purchasing your Irvine home. But how does one do that? To be quite frank with you, I don’t know the exact answer myself, it [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Why consider buying property in Irvine?

August 5, 2008

Relatively speaking, Irvine is a new city within the bounds of Orange County. I don’t intend to tire the reader with facts and statistics about the city; rather I’d like to put these facts and some of these statistics not in the form of sentences in paragraphs but as bullet points for quick visual reference.
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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – New home buyers and property tax blunders

August 4, 2008

Although this doesn’t happen frequently but a property tax mix-up may generate a tremendous headache for the new Irvine home buyer. What I’m about to convey to my readers is a true story and a sad and frustrating at that. It might be to the reader’s advantage to read through.
An Irvine foreclosed property was purchased [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Status of your property taxes on-line

August 4, 2008

We live in the age of web technology where the space around us is filled with trillions of fast-traveling morsels of data called information. The web allows us to access such information almost immediately by a few strokes of the keyboard. One piece of information that may be useful to a potential buyer of a [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Prospective Irvine home buyers

August 3, 2008

My wife and I are a team, The Mack Team, and live in Northpark Square in Irvine. We mainly concentrate on Orange County, specifically Irvine homes, and hardly deviate from this area. This is not to say that we will not consider other close by areas, but to say that our main focus is on [...]

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