VACATION TIME

I'm covered up with customers. But that's always the way it is - just before I depart for a short vacation. I'll be out of my office for ten days beginning this Friday afternoon, Nov. 2nd. Everybody will just have to wait, while I participate in a romantic cruise in the Mediterranean. Then...........look out! I'll be back; and Tyler Texas real estate will be humming again.

SEPTEMBER FIGURES

This from the Associated Press, as reported in Yahoo! Finance:

"The Commerce Department reported Thursday that sales of new homes rose by 4.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 770,000 units. Economists had looked for a 2.5 percent decline."

Although foreclosures are expected to increase over the next year, it looks as if the pent-up demand for housing is overcoming the fraudulent mortgage woes. We're still busy at Tyler Texas real estate!

MOVING EAST

We're naturally sympathetic with our countrymen in California who are losing their homes and being run out of their homes. We wish that somehow we could be of some assistance.

But should any of them wish to escape the politically correct environmentalists that are causing the fire conditions, we will help them get to East Texas as fast as they can!

http://www.johncmartin.com/
Tyler Texas Real Estate

LOAN BROKERS

Who should you hire to secure your loan?

You would not believe how many problems occur when home buyers try to secure their loans from an unknown broker or an out-of-town broker! Please! Save yourself grief! Go to a broker who your realtor knows. There's a "control" issue here. Your buyer/agent is supposed to control the process right to the closing table. And if your loan broker is unknown, the realtor has no control over the process. You, the buyer, have to control it instead of your realtor; and it hardly ever works. If I listed the sad stories, you wouldn't believe me. Here at http://www.johncmartin.com/, Tyler Texas real estate, we try our best to provide a "known entity", a reliable provider, for our customers, in order to avoid the pitfalls in selling-buying-moving. Should you have no serious problems in your transition, give your realtor a hug! Because you have no idea what problems he saved you from experiencing.

INTERNET SEARCHES

This from http://www.ineedhits.com/:

Worldwide searches of the internet during the month of August show that Google has more than half of all internet searches in the world! In that month (August) the next highest search engine result has Yahoo! as number two. But Google had five times as many! The remainder of the searches were spread over a wide assortment of search engines. Surprising were two Asian search engines, one in China and one in Korea.

In its primary key words, "east texas real estate" and "tyler texas real estate", http://www.johncmartin.com/ ranks number 2 and number 5 on the first page of Google search results.

TEXAS TAXES

This from http://www.johncmartin.com/:

It's true that Texas property taxes are higher than the average in the nation. And this hurts folks that might want to move here for all the other benefits. But consider these facts: 1) Texas imposes no state income taxes on anybody, 2) Texas has no additional estate tax, 3) value for the dollar spent is WAY better than in most other places, especially in Tyler Texas and in all of East Texas.

Tyler Texas real estate and East Texas real estate wants you to know that the $300,000 home that you purchase here would cost you two or three times that amount in many other locations; and it would take a long, long time to make up that difference while paying a bit more annually in property taxes.

ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT.

This from MSN real estate:

Another reason for optimism (keeping in mind that expectations are somewhat lower this year): For many, the ongoing market correction will make the dream of buying a home a reality.

"In so many of these markets, housing became extremely unaffordable," says David Stiff, chief economist at financial data processor Fiserv Lending Solutions, who expects average U.S. home prices to appreciate only 0.1% overall in 2007. "Prices moving back in line with household income sets the stage for price appreciation in the future."

In other words, the home value adjustment will make home buying more affordable for many, many more families.

COSTS OF DOING BUSINESS

Today began on a very optimistic note, as the markets started the new quarter on a "high". Just because two big banks will show a loss because of fraudulent loans, meant very little to the markets. The banks can just spread the losses anyway. When folks wake up to the fact that they've been subjected to "false terror" about the housing markets, there will be some real bargains out there. I suspect that that will begin fairly soon. Only two categories of folks need to be pessimistic: 1) those who overborrowed (for whatever reason), and 2) those who haven't taken care of their own credit. http://www.johncmartin.com/ has all the goodies in East Texas.