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Comment on A fine mushroom hunting adventure by Joy

Joy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:35:27 +0000

Are you sure those aren’t the goofy mushrooms? Hmmmmmm

Comment on The Sad Squirrel by Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:47:48 +0000

I’m very amused. Also, I think I got bird and dog, but “sad squirrel” looks like “upside-down duck” to me. Still laughing.

Comment on Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home by My Short Sale Finally Closed

My Short Sale Finally Closed — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:12:49 +0000

[...] I wrote about it on my family blog at The housing bubble hits home for the Stankavich family and Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home. Then I got an email from my real estate agent late last week. The buyer received a Notice of [...]

Comment on The housing bubble hits home for the Stankavich family by My Short Sale Finally Closed

My Short Sale Finally Closed — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:10:04 +0000

[...] last week.If you’re interested in the whole story, I wrote about it on my family blog at The housing bubble hits home for the Stankavich family and Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home. Then I got an email from my real estate agent late [...]

Comment on Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home by Mike Stankavich

Mike Stankavich — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:49:47 +0000

Mike, Diesel, thanks for the encouragement. We submitted an offer to the lenders a couple weeks ago. Hopefully we’ll find out whether they will approve before too much longer.

Comment on Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home by diesel

diesel — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:48:04 +0000

Good luck. Hopefully the market will start turning around.

Comment on Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home by Mike A

Mike A — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:25:14 +0000

Hope Everyting works out for you guys. Its tough times for so many right now, but you just have to hang in there and keep kicking at it, just they way you’re doing!
Good Luck,
We’ll need to get together soon….

mike a

Comment on Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home by Mike Stankavich

Mike Stankavich — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:14:42 +0000

Steve, thanks for dropping by. I’m glad to hear that you made the best of your situation.

We weren’t quite as aggressive on the promotion as you were, but we did have the property very clean and with all outstanding repair issues fixed. We didn’t get any strong bids the day of the auction, but it generated enough buzz to bring a very clean and appropriate offer which we have submitted for lender approval. Hopefully the approvals will come through without taking too terribly long.

Comment on Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home by Steve

Steve — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:41:43 +0000

Best of luck mate! I am a realtor in New Zealand and just sold my own home by short Auction! I auction most of my clients properties because you may get a premium price and if not you get market price. It is important to “pitch” your property correctly. In my case, I homestaged,decluttered and tidied my home to an extreme level cost me $2000.00. I also exposed my property extensively for a short time(18 days from start till sale) I put a 3 x full page adverts in local property pages and had a great advert on 3 websites with a “video” (moving pics), proffesional photos, flyers etc All cost a further $2000. I was not a distressed vendor/seller but I communicated that I was very serious about establishing the free market price – what ever that may be. Most importantly due to my experience (been doin this for 21 yrs) I invited all bids from $600 000 which is a real bargain price! Please note I would not have sold my home for less than $825 000. Due to all above factors we really attracted a lot of buyers – some hoping to pick up a bargain and others also hoping to pick up a bargain but then getting real and also some who had to own it no matter what. The thing is I invested $4000.00 plus was in for a $25 000 commission payment but my property seriously stood out – ie it was real easy for buyers to find it and when they came to view it, the home was impeccable(huge pain for us to maintain) and we gave the purchasers an expensive “flyer and info pack”. The highest price achieved in my street was $715 000 but most properties sell for mid $500 000. On auction day there were 19 registered bidders, 9 actually bid and we achieved a sale price of $842 000!The market is seriously slow in NZ at present. A great result, a lot of effort and a $4000 marketing investment. May the free market prevail! Steve. If you want to contact me go to http://www.barfoot.co.nz go to find a branch and find Howick Branch – I am the manager. I am not trying to solicit business but would be happy to chat/help for free if you want.Good luck and G-d Bless.

Comment on Rochelle’s 4 year old imagination works overtime by Menka

Menka — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:15:13 +0000

Hi Mike,
What a sweet girl you have…and very creative too.