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Utah will Follow California's Market
by lynnrealestate
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
You may ask why would Lynn post this article regarding  California Housing?  My experience is that the Utah market follows the California market in a matter of months.  We are already seeing this trend in Salt Lake , Summit and Tooele Counties.  If  you have been waiting for the bottom of the market my guess is that this ...
Hearing Old Words and Learning Anew
by lynnrealestate
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“Did you learn something this morning?” Bonita Hutchison Hearing Words and Learning Anew Bonita asked me if I learned something last Thursday morning.  I said no, but then stopped and said, “I need to think about it for a while.”  This is the perfect example of how I’m just beginning to learn from, and be ...
Freddie Mac Reports 15-Year Rate Fell to New Low
by lynnrealestate
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Freddie Mac Reports 15-Year Rate Fell to New Low 04/12/2012 By: Esther Cho Following a disappointing employment report, fixed rate averages fell for the third week in a row, with the 15-year fixed-rate hitting a new low, while the 30-year rate continues to fall further beneath 4 percent, according ...
CoreLogic: Best Markets for Single-Family Rental Investments
by lynnrealestate
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
CoreLogic: Best Markets for Single-Family Rental Investments 04/11/2012 By: Esther Cho  Single-family rental investing is a $3 trillion market, according to CoreLogic’s MarketPulse report, which further stated that the single-family rental market accounts for $21 million rental units, or 52 percent of ...
RealtyTrac Reports Foreclosure Filings Down, Foreclosure Timelines Up
by lynnrealestate
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
RealtyTrac Reports Foreclosure Filings Down, Foreclosure Timelines Up 04/11/2012 By: Esther Cho Foreclosure filings – default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank repossessions – were reported on 572,928 properties during the 2012 first quarter, down 2 percent from the previous quarter and down 16 p...
LPS Reports January Home Prices Down 0.9 Percent
by lynnrealestate
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
LPS Reports January Home Prices Down 0.9 Percent 04/09/2012 By: Esther Cho Home prices for January 2012 dropped 0.9 percent, an even greater increase from the 0.4 percent drop in December 2011, according to Lender Processing Services’ Home Price Index ( HPI ). For January, home prices ave...
Bank of America Makes Changes to Trim Short Sale Timeline
by lynnrealestate
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
BofA Makes Changes to Trim Short Sale Timeline 04/09/2012 By: Carrie Bay Bank of America is making changes to its short sale procedures and introducing an improved task flow within the short sale technology module from Equator , BofA’s short sale management platform of choice. The goal: to reduce ...
Credit Scores Rising, LTVs Dropping on New Mortgages: Report
by lynnrealestate
Apr 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Credit Scores Rising, LTVs Dropping on New Mortgages: Report 04/06/2012 By: Carrie Bay Mortgage lenders remain cautious in terms of credit quality, down payments, and valuations, as evidenced by the findings outlined in the new Origination Insight Report generated by Ellie Mae . The company ...
Turning Loss Into Victory
by lynnrealestate
Apr 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
“I receive some criticism at work and I feel discouraged about it.” Turning Loss Into Victory “I’d like to talk with you when you get a minute,” said the email on my computer screen. I’d never received an email like this from this friend so I replied immediately.  “Sure,” I typed, “I’ll come to your offi...
Freddie Mac Reports 30-Year Still Below 4%; Little Change Overall
by lynnrealestate
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
04/05/201 By: Esther Cho  The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is still below 4 percent and showed very little movement since last week, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey . The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.98 percent (0.7 point) for the week ending April 5, 2012, down sligh...
Home Prices to Increase Modestly by Year-End: Clear Capital
by lynnrealestate
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
04/04/2012 By: Carrie Bay  The valuation firm Clear Capital released the results of its home price forecasting models Thursday. The company expects residential property values at the national level to show slight increases over the next three months, ending the year with a growth rate of 1.2 percent. ...
Still Time to Have Forgiven Mortgage Debt Excluded as Taxable Income
by lynnrealestate
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
By: Esther Cho  Homeowners who have had mortgage debt forgiven after a f oreclosure , modification, or short sale may be able to exclude the canceled debt from their taxable income if they meet specific criteria. According to Gil Charney, principal analyst at The Tax Institute at H&R Block , the specifi...
The Fifteen Second Boy
by lynnrealestate
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
A small boy doing a big thing The Fifteen Second Boy I imagined that I felt like a gopher who had been underground working in his tunnels all day as I walked up the long stairs of the Huntsman Center to take a dinner break.  Perhaps one big difference is that I was happy to see the light streaming through the w...
Number of Completed Foreclosures Down for February
by lynnrealestate
Mar 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
CoreLogic: Number of Completed Foreclosures Down for February 03/29/2012 By: Esther Cho The number of completed foreclosures in February 2012 was down on a monthly basis and slightly on a year-over-year comparison, but overall, foreclosure inventory has decreased compared to a year ago, according...
Forcasting Home Price Recovery
by lynnrealestate
Mar 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Forecasting Home Price Recovery: Turnover Rate as a Powerful Indicator 03/29/2012 By: Carrie Bay Home prices in many areas are already rebounding from the bottom of the market, according to the March HomeValueForecast.com update from Pro Teck Valuation Services . This month, the company exp...
Kitchens Sell a House
by lynnrealestate
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Kitchens Sell a House by Carla Hill It's a tool used by house flippers all across the nation. Stagers know its power. Real estate agents push its importance. What is this not-so-well-kept secret of real estate? A kitchen can sell a house.     A kitchen is the heart of a home. This is true all across the globe. ...
Housing Crisis to End in 2012 as Banks Loosen Credit Standards
by lynnrealestate
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Your content here Housing Crisis to End in 2012 as Banks Loosen Credit Standards 01/24/2012 By: Krista Franks Brock Capital Economics expects the housing crisis to end this year, according to a report released Tuesday. One of the reasons: loosening credit. The analytics firm notes the av...
Data Security of Web-based Software
by curvedental
Mar 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Some have questioned the security of web-based dental systems when compared with legacy, office-based, client/server based systems. While the question is reasonable, the answer is very clear. Web-based systems have the capability of providing substantially greater security than any on-site, client/server based system. While ...
Introducing “Revenue Based Financing” by John Knab
Mar 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Raise Funding Without a Personal Guarantee; Dilution; or Loss of Control   During ‘dead week’ in December, I had breakfast with Eliot Ward (Twitter: @eliotlyle) with Rock & Hammer Ventures (rockandhammer.biz) located in Utah. They represent a new hybrid form of funding for Utah-based companies called Revenue Based Finan...
Tomorrow's Offer
by lynnrealestate
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“No matter how bad things get there is always another day.” Cody Thompson Tomorrow’s Offer Every one of us will make a bad choice at least once in our life.  Every one of us will have times when things haven’t gone as we had hoped.  This is especially the case when we are young and trying to find our pat...
What if the Internet Goes Down?
by curvedental
Mar 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Web-based dental software delivers a host of advantages over traditional client-server software. Dental practices that utilize the cloud to manage their practice never worry about installing upgrades, backups, expensive servers and hardware, nor do they pay huge up-front software licensing fees. They also enjoy the convenien...
Living From Your Heart
by lynnrealestate
Mar 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Living From Your Heart Every once in a while something happens in life that causes one to question everything.  Such is the case with a good friend of mine.  I sat with him this week and intently listened to the events that led him to his moment of self discovery. As I listened to him describe his tribulati...
Discovering the Principle of Resilience
by lynnrealestate
Mar 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“Things happened that weren’t supposed to happen.” Crawford Cragun Discovering the Principle of Resilience One of the things I’ve learned about life, through experience, is that everything doesn’t always happen the way I want or in the way I expected it to.  I know I’m not the only one who feels that way...
Increasing Your Fortune
by lynnrealestate
Feb 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
“Thanks for asking, it’s therapeutic to be able to talk with someone about it.” -Jim McArthur Increasing Your Fortune I met Jim for the first time this week; my friend Stacey introduced me to him.  We scheduled a time when I could come to his office so we could get to know each other before we began to d...
Staff Training is Only a Click Away
by curvedental
Jan 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Turnover in staff is a part of life. People are coming and going all the time due to a number of different reasons. Some of those reasons you may be able to control (if you're nice and pay fairly you may keep staff around much longer than if you're a grouch and you expect people to work only for the opportunity to bask in yo...
Why the Web? Because Access from Home is Automatic
by curvedental
Jan 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
I know doctors who are able to access their dental software from home with their old-fashioned, client-server software. Here's the steps they went through to get there: First, they had to identify which remote access software would work best. Second, they purchased the software (or downloaded unproven, unreliable, or unsu...
Why the Web? Because Checking Production Numbers and X-rays from Starbucks is Kind of Exhilarating
by curvedental
Dec 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Do you remember that first call with a cell phone? With my first phone I was charged for every minute I used on the phone, so I didn't use the phone until several days after I bought it. I remember that well: I was on the freeway and I needed to get a message to my wife quickly. So I took out my new phone, turned it on, a...
Any Person May Become Great
by lynnrealestate
Dec 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“It will make an immense difference with your faith and spirit whether you look upon civilization as a good thing which is becoming better or as a bad and evil thing which is decaying.  One viewpoint gives you a descending and decreasing mind.  One viewpoint will make you grow greater and the other will inevitably cause you ...
Give From Your Heart
by lynnrealestate
Dec 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
“Don’t lend your service; give your service.” - Justin Miller Cole Give From Your Heart There were thousands of lights all around.  The air was cold so I was especially happy to have a daughter on each arm as we walked through the town square.  There were so many people.  Everywhere we turned there were ...
Heard Off The Street: High-Frequency Trading Is Ruining the Market
Dec 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Investment Strategy Group of Contango Capital Advisors provides regular updates on economic and financial market conditions. In this commentary, we offer some thoughts on the increasing volume of “machine trading” and its implications for stock prices … as well as for human investors. The bulk of the New York Stoc...

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