Las Vegas, Nevada Real Estate Agent’s Las Vegas Homes, Condos, Land, Commercial Real Estate and Personal Blog

  I have come to believe that Las Vegas real estate has entered an irrational depression period after celebrating with irrational exuberance for a few years. When Allen Greenspan speaks, I tape the interview or the speech and watch it over and over until my wife gets so tired of it that she erases it. […]

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   The first group to recognize Las Vegas as a good investment opportunity was the mob. For them, Las Vegas was not only a great money machine; it offered the added advantage of becoming the law rather than running from it. They were right and made a bundle, and then Wall Street bought out the mob, […]

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    My wife Karen and I decided to attend the Realtor preview grand opening of Woodbridge at Coronado Ranch. American West Sales had thrown a very nice party for Realtors and besides the model homes; the main attraction was Richard Lee, vice president of American Title in Las Vegas. He gave a great presentation which […]

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It is a fact of life that there are more than 15,000 Realtors and real estate agents in Greater Las Vegas and that unless one is at the top of this profession; doors are closed to him/her.
My plan for creating the Las Vegas homes, condos and commercial real estate web-site had two goals. One was […]

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   As you may have noticed I don’t blog often, I respect my reader’s time and don’t like to waste it with mundane stuff. At any rate, the web-site and the web log take a great deal of my time and effort, they don’t come cheap or easy.  For example: I spent over 16 hours of […]

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  I provide a searchable Las Vegas new home, condos, high-rise condominiums and town homes listings database in my web-site for visitors. Doing so raises a few issues which I can’t fix. One issue is that a new home database is as good as the data in it and new home or condo builders in […]

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 I have posted the changes to the web-site, and decided to start the home page as follows:We educate our customers to be real estate snipers, not road kill collecting foreclosure bait. One shot, one winning deal. We are changing the way Las Vegas real estate deals are done. Follow our road map to insure you success […]

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Seeing the big picture can help Las Vegas new high-rise and mid-rise condos buyers get a much better deal from the builders. Besides asking a condo sales office for the total condo units being built, how many are under contract and when the sales started, there are other issues to ponder like:
The gateway to be […]

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   Due to expensive land prices in Las Vegas, builders are moving away from building single family detached houses and have started to build mid and high density housing projects. Thus condo buyers have lots of plans and locations to choose from.
During 2004-2006 investors would buy a parcel of land, up-zone the parcel to high-rise and […]

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We have made an oath to always put our client’s interest before ours and refused to do any transactions until recently while advising our clients to wait for a better deal. As proof I will publish our answers to two of our customers which is just a small sampling of what we have sent out.
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   Obtaining home owner’s insurance is a must for any home owner as a large amount of damage or a total loss of an un-insured home or condo can financially ruin a home owner. Additionally, having a home owner’s insurance is a requirement for financing the purchase.
Insurance companies have to assess the risk they are taking […]

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I always ask for a CLUE Report on any property that I make an offer on behalf of a buyer and it paid off in a big way recently. I made an offer on 2287 square ft. home in West Las Vegas. The home is located near Lake Mead and Buffalo in the Desert Shores […]

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   A big condo auction is coming up this Sunday in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas and I have advised a couple of very dear clients of mine Maria and Francis to take a shot at it. The condos are located on Vegas Drive which border Summerlin and the cool thing about this is that […]

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According to Freddie Mac’s survey last week, the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.48%. This is one of the lowest rates since 2004. Furthermore the Fed has cut rates by 1.25 percentage points in eight days, and has lowered the target for the federal funds rate to 3%. It is possible that […]

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America loves hyping snapshots, and all the news and pundit’s discussions of it are focused on such events of the moment. The problem is that a snapshot is a picture of a moment and misses the big picture and long term trends. Same hype resulted in the irrational exuberance of 2003-2005 in Las Vegas real […]

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