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Taste of Soulard 2012 This Weekend Feb 11th-12th

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Benton Park, Soulard, St. Louis Culture, Street Festivals | 0 comments

Taste of Soulard starts today!  Bring your gloves and a scarf because its going to be a chilly one this year.  A few hurricanes should warm you up.  Here is all the info from the Mardi Gras Inc. website for the Southern Comfort Taste of Soulard 2012 SATURDAY, FEB 11 – SUNDAY, FEB 12, 2012 SOUTHERN COMFORT TASTE OF SOULARD Several of Soulard’s fine establishments offer samples of their signature dishes in this unique, create your own experience event. Attendees are able to stroll though Soulard using the seven taste tickets from the...

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Working On Lots of New Short Sales

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Benton Park, Benton Park West, Central West End, Cherokee, Financing, Gravois Park, Listings, Realtor, Richmond Heights, Sellers, Short Sale, Soulard, St. Louis Hills, Tower Grove East | 2 comments

I’m working on lots of new short sales this winter with a variety of banks and clients.  Short sales are some of the best deals out there for buyers who are capable of dealing with the process.  Banks routinely approve short sales 25%-40% off market value.   In order to get this discounts buyers should be prepared to wait 3-4 months from contract to closing and be willing to buy the property as-is.  Also, expect some sort of counter offer from the bank during the process.  Strategically, we often offer a lower price initially in...

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RE/MAX Gold Moving Truck For Free

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Buyers, Realtor, Sellers | 0 comments

My clients now get to use our RE/MAX Gold moving truck for free! The truck is an 18 foot moving truck branded with the RE/MAX Gold logo. It has plenty of space for furniture and boxes alike. It comes with padding and ramps for protection and easy loading/unloading. Any buyer or seller who is closing a deal just needs to ask if their desired date is available and we’ll get you on the schedule. The truck is located at Fenton office near 141 and Hwy 44.  The normal procedure is to pick the truck up the afternoon or evening before your...

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RE/MAX Top 10 Predictions For Housing in 2012

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Realtor, Short Sale | 0 comments

Dave Liniger, RE/MAX Chairman, was recently named the most influential real estate leader by Inman News.  In this video he shares his Top 10 Predictions for housing in 2012 as well as his suggestions for speeding up the housing recovery.

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If Your Bank Doesn’t Have A Local Branch

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Realtor | 0 comments

With the advent of online banking  and online bill pay over the last decade it has become less important to be able to walk into your local bank branch to do business for the day to day consumer.  Not everyone banks somewhere that is ubiquitous in every city in the country like Bank of America or Regions Bank.  Some people choose to stay with a credit union or a local bank in the town that they are from.  In other cases people bank with large national banks like Chase or Citi that don’t have branches here in St. Louis.  I have had...

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Bank of America Has Turned a Corner With Short Sales

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Listings, Realtor, Short Sale | 0 comments

Suddenly Bank of America has become one of the best banks to work with when it comes to short sales.  They are one of the only banks that has responded to the high volume of short sales by hiring the proper staff and creating an infrastructure to deal with it.  Over the last 6 months my short sale team and I have had great success with them.  They rarely come back with unrealistic values and demands making it much easier to close the sale.  This is great news for the general public.  Bank of America happens to be the largest owner of...

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How To Handle A Claim If You Have Home Warranty

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Realtor | 0 comments

A Home Warranty or Home Protection Plan can be a great comfort to a buyer when purchasing a new home.  I always try to negotiate one into the contract for my buyers to be paid for by the sellers.  The warranty lasts for one year from the closing date and depending on the plan purchased covers many if not most of the systems and components in a house, condo, or apartment building. It acts as an insurance policy should any large repair need to be done in this first year after a buyer has already spent a good amount of their savings down on a...

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Christmas Lights in Benton Park

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Benton Park | 0 comments

Took some pictures at the corner of Pestalozzi and Lemp in Benton Park the other night because they light it up this time of year and it looks pretty festive.  Anheuser-Busch lights up their facility by the visitor center and stables so I took some pictures there too.  If you can see security in the pictures its because they parked in the middle of my shot and stared me down the entire time…probably thought I was staking the place out. Most of these are just outside of Frazer’s and some are of Venice cafe, both at the corner of...

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28th Annual Cherokee Cookie Spree Sat & Sun Dec 3-4 11-5

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Benton Park, Benton Park West, Cherokee, Gravois Park, Marine Villa, St. Louis Culture, Street Festivals | 0 comments

After writing a blog post about it the day before I stopped into Kevin’s Place for a pizza last night (Yes, I’m addicted).  He remarked how it was his busiest day ever.  I asked him why and he didn’t have much of an idea, but thought it might be because of the press for the cookie spree this weekend.  He gave me a flyer/postcard which I’ve posted a picture of here, but I couldn’t find much press for it, myself.  Its usually a really well attended event and last year they shut down my street.  This year...

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Kevin’s Place on Cherokee — Great Pizza!

Posted by on Apr 12, 2012 in Benton Park, Benton Park West, Cherokee, Marine Villa, Soulard, St. Louis Culture | 0 comments

I’ve been meaning to post about Kevin’s Place on Cherokee for a long time now.  Kevin’s is at 2111 Cherokee right next to the Mississippi Mudhouse, a popular Benton Park Coffeehouse.  Its 2 blocks from Benton Park on the south side of the neighborhood in the Cherokee Antique Row.   Its also just a few block from the Lemp Mansion, The Stable, Deminil Mansion, and 2720 Cherokee.  Now that we have our bearings let’s talk about the pizza! MapSchoolsMarket StatsFinancingNearby BusinessesWalkabilityLocation Map ...

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