Green Bay Real Estate, LLC

Green Bay Real Estate, LLC, concentrating in the Fox Valley area (Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wisconsin), is committed to giving their clients the most reliable and honest service. Visit us at www.greenbayrealestatellc.com For more information contact Dan Balke at (920) 405-9900 Ext 112.

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Government and Lenders Need to be More Aggressive in Helping Beleaguered Homeowners!

Government and Lenders Need to be More Aggressive in Helping Beleaguered Homeowners!

Here is an article I recently saw in the Los Angeles Times, that I thought was very appropriate for investors looking at buying properties. The investor should aggressively target these homeowners that are either in pre-foreclosure or in the bankruptcy stage. Not to take [...]

Home Sales Up in ‘09 But Prices Still Down

Home Sales Up in ‘09 But Prices Still Down

A tax credit for first-time home buyers helped prop up the Lehigh Valley housing market in 2009, marginally increasing sales from their sluggish pace in the previous year. But prices continued to fall as most buyers were interested in low-priced homes and more homes went into foreclosure.

The [...]

Feds Subpoena FHA Lenders with High Foreclosure Rates

Feds Subpoena FHA Lenders with High Foreclosure Rates

I recently read an article that indicates that the Feds are going after mortgage companies with questionably high rates of foreclosures on homes they finance. This week, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Inspector General Kenneth M. Donohue and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner David H. [...]

Changes in the Foreclosure Market

Changes in the Foreclosure Market

Last week I saw an interesting article by Rick Sharga, Senior Vice President of RealtyTrac, Inc as he tries to predict the future.

As we enter a new year — and begin a new decade — it’s a good time to take a look ahead and try to answer some of the [...]

Sick of Renting? Buy a Foreclosure

Sick of Renting? Buy a Foreclosure

In today’s flagging housing market it’s easy to envy renters — they don’t have to worry about paying for home repairs, home owners’ association dues, or property taxes. On the other hand, they do have to worry about throwing their money away month after month, while they’re not building equity. [...]

More Fiddling As Foreclosure Crisis Rages On

More Fiddling As Foreclosure Crisis Rages On

The good news is the Obama Administration appears to be finally conceding that its efforts to staunch the foreclosure crisis are not working as planned.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist – or a Nobel winner, for that matter – to figure that one out, with foreclosures set to [...]

Low-Cost Foreclosures Attract Investors

Low-Cost Foreclosures Attract Investors

The influx of foreclosed homes on the market is grabbing the attention of investors. Bob Diamond’s system of buying foreclosures is one of the best and most complete programs on the market. For more information on a complete range of foreclosure and bankruptcy topics, see my web-site at http://investments-in-foreclosures.com

According to a [...]

Foreclosure Epidemic Worsens with 1 Million New Filings

Foreclosure Epidemic Worsens With 1 Million New Filings

The housing crisis continues as foreclosures rose another 5% in the third quarter of 2009, and are predicted to increase to as many as 25-million before the epidemic ends. Six states that were heavily targeted by lenders account for nearly 62% of foreclosures, with California alone accounting for [...]

How to Write Subject-To Offers

How to Write “Subject-To” Offers

A “subject-to” offer simply means that the buyer is willing to purchase a piece of property “subject-to” some specific circumstance. Usually that circumstance will be the sellers existing mortgage. It can also be a variety of other things. One of the most common “subject-to” clauses in real estate contracts is “subject-to” [...]

The Real Estate Market: Don’t Celebrate Yet!

The Real Estate Market: Don’t Celebrate Housing’s Recent Uptick Yet

by Martin Denholm, Contributing Editor

Recently,  Marc Lichtenfeld and Martin Denholm took a collective pop at some lazy journalists and other media cheerleaders. Their crime? Whipping the investment community into false optimism through misleading headlines regarding earnings announcements.

They’re at it again.

This time, the flashy headline writers [...]