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Happy Thanksgiving – a Festival of Traditions

Thanksgiving Traditions Family Dinners Turkey the main course Stuffing & cranberries Travel Long Weekend Football - Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions Start Shopping for Christmas Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Commemoration of America's ethnic bread basket 8...

Zillow Revises 2022 Home Prices Higher

Just as Zillow is jumping out of the iBuyer market business, it predicts that home prices will go even higher in 2022 than originally forecast. The new published report forecasts home prices will increase 13.6% between October 2021 and October 2022. This is a 20%...

Cleaning Out for the Holidays

How to Get Rid of Stuff  Finally - Getting Rid of the Stuff Salvation Army and Goodwill don't take everything! So you don't want to stretch out the process.  ■ Decide Not to Delay  ■ Start  ■ Plan  ■ Take inventory  ■ Schedule  ■ Attack  ■ Get help Thinking About the...

Spectacular Lunar Eclispe

Photos by Curlie Jackson  These photo's were taken from the boardwalks in Avon and Bradley Beach, New Jersey. The partial lunar eclipse on November 19th began around 2:30 a.m. peaked about 4:00 a.m., concluding around 5:30 a.m.  The almost total partial lunar eclipse...

Staging Tips That Work

Most buyers' agents state that a home well-staged makes it easier for the buyers to visualize the property as their future home. Here are some tips that any seller can implement who want to spend less money.  First Impression - Curb Appeal: The home says something to...

US Rents Continue Their Historic Surge

Super-Charged Rents  CoreLogic published a report citing that US single-family rents have surged by 10.2% year-over-year in September. This is the fastest rate of growth year-over-year ever recorded by CoreLogic in the last 16 years. Not all markets grew at the same...

Show Me the Money – Opendoor 

Home Flipper Business Model Needs Some Work Recent articles and reports covering Opendoor and Zillow's iBuyer program are casting some shadows upon the viability and profitability of the business model by which they operate. Opendoor Still Going Nowhere Despite the...

Zillow Sells 2,000 Homes Part 2

Zillow is not the only publicly traded company involved in this business model: Opendoor, founded in 2014, has been at this for over 7 years, and even with ridiculously strong revenue growth, is struggling to find a profit. Opendoor recently reported revenues of $2.27...

Zillow Sells 2,000 Homes Part 1

Where's the Profit? Recently Zillow announced that it had determined to get out of the iBuying program business model. This resulted in the company taking a significant loss on the homes that it had purchased. It then announced, according to a Wall Street Journal...

Honoring America’s Veterans

Honoring all of our Veterans who have sacrificed so much for Freedom here and around the world. From all of us at Counsellors Title Agency!! Background on Veterans Day Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that...

What Escrow Does

Escrow is a legal financial arrangement which involves a third party who temporarily holds large sums of money or property until conditions and contingencies are met, as in the fulfillment of a purchase agreement for property. The escrow account is fundamentally a...

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