Alameda County Statistics 3/08 to 3/09…

Want to know what’s going on in Alameda County? It’s on FIRE!! Multiple offers are common place. Cash buyers are everywhere and FHA buyers are having a hard time. It’s as if we are back in 2005/2006. If you are looking at property under $400K you better run to that property and put in a bid.

Offers without contingencies are back. Offering 30, 40, 50K over asking is not unusual. Appraisals are a pain in the ass. Not the appraiser but the system itself. Getting an appraiser that is familiar with a local area is a crap shoot, a roll of the dice. Today you need to move fast, be creative and have an agressive offer price with sweet terms. Read more

I see white people…diversity in “good” communities

Remember the movie The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis and the kid in the movie says “I see dead people” well in my quest to find a new place to call home with no crime rate, a lovely environment, great public schools, clean and green community immediately brings to mind that movie only with the saying, “I see white people.”  

If I want all of the characteristics and qualities of the list above that means, I’m afraid to say, that I’m going to be giving up diversity. 

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