Falling Taxes on Real Estate in Southern Oregon

This is a reply or clarification from my standpoint on the article that came out in today’s (Oct 4, 2011) Mail Tribune as the front page story. I generally like to link to stories that I refer to, but the Mail Tribune decided that they are charging people to read the online version of their [...]

Ashland Summer Not So Hot

This has really been another mild Summer in the Rogue Valley. For an area that has normally seen a handful of 100+ degree days by now, they are nowhere to be seen. This is good news to many who do not like that hot weather…plus good news to keep the forest fires down, and the [...]

Sitting in the Woods

It is beautiful up here in the Greensprings today. Sitting holding an open house for brokers at the Mountain Cabin I’ve had listed for a while. The price has been lowered to $150,000 with possible owner terms. So I am sitting in the sun on the south facing deck. It is slightly breezy, with pretty [...]

New Tech in the House

With as techie as I am, I’ve kind of taken the last few months away from the blogosphere. A dying computer as an excuse, the effort to create and write disappeared. Here is hopeful note that with some new equipment, that the future holds more posts, perhaps some video interviews, and a way to avoid [...]

An analysis of the effect of the home buyer tax credit

My last newsletter asked the question of what effect did the home buyer government stimulus money have? My answer was I thought that the short term impact was huge. But I was really curious about what the long term impact was going to be. And I concluded last time we’re really just in a wait [...]

Investors are buying

I was having a conversation with a fellow Handball player yesterday who was visiting for a game. He invests in real estate, and has for a number of years. What he was telling me was that he couldn’t buy houses fast enough at this time. He’ s been going in with cash, and buying rental [...]

Protect Your Investment-De-moss your roof

One of the things I notice from the number of houses I visit, plus the house I own is the accumulation of moss on the roofs in our area. This happens most often on the north side of a house, or if there is a tree that is shading a portion of the roof. The [...]

Current Foreclosures in Jackson County

A quick search of the Southern Oregon MLS shows that today there are 133 bank owned (REO) forclosed houses currently for sale. These properties are all kinds…in all price ranges. On the bottom end is a $55,000 house in Evans Creek on an acre that has fire damage. But more realistically, there is a house [...]

Original Listing Price to Selling Price

I admit it has been a long time since I have posted on my blog.  Blame in on the weather, the slightly more active real estate market…or probably the real cause. I have been out of town for something or other almost every week for a day or two. Or perhaps I just couldn’t think of [...]

By the numbers–short sales and REO’s

In the last 3 months in Jackson County 384 total sold residential properties 125 sold REO properties 35 sold Short Sale properties Median price of REO/short sale properties is 20% lower than non-duress properties Total 42% of the sold market is REO/Short sale In the last 3 months in Ashland 39 total sold residential properties 4 sold [...]