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We send a bulk feed to Yahoo Real Estate every night. One real estate listing in that feed was removed last September, but the listing will not leave Yahoo. According to the info on this site, individual users are told to tell their bulk feed provider to remove the info from the feed and the listing will go away. In this case, it is not true and Yahoo has removed the option to contact them as a member (though they rarely answered anyway). Perhaps someone else out there has a clue what we can do to force Yahoo to remove the old property that has not been for sale in 6 months.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/Illinois/Schaumburg/631-duxbury-ln:3b1bfa1f7a15e4a96e8efaa9166c489c

There is a Yahoo Team member who oversees each of the different categories on the site. But none of them seem excited about the Real Estate section. All the effort goes into Finance, Sports, and Shine.

You can call 866-562-7219. That number is only for paying customers but that should include you. It is the Customer Service desk.

help.yahoo.com is worth trying. But they don’t answer you very explicitly. So explain your problem as clearly as you did in this question.

we are under contract to buy a house. When realestate showed house it says no HOA’s on flyer and agent said there wasn’t any. when title search was done it was found,but the hoa it’s listed doesn’t have it on their paper agent said. can we get removed from the hoa. we really want the house but not HOA

HOAs are pretty powerful, I doubt you can op out.

However if you still have not bought the house you most likely can get out of the contract and get your deposit ot earnest money back.

it was built in 1910 it’s three beds,large kitchen,dinning room,den,living room and house stable it’s really cool http://realestate.timesrecordnews.com/realestate/Sales/Listing.asp?lid=392-96530 here a pic of the house

I would ask the listing agent to supply you sales comps, the home looks lovely but its always location, location, location,.

The reference to Zillow was good, however I have seen the numbers way off.

Ask the agent, how long has the home been on the market? How did the seller or agent determine price?

This will give you better insight.

This is a prime example at that price and today interest rate, its cheaper to own both in the short and long term

Best to you.

PS I like Texas and Louisiana

Not sure if that was the best way to phrase this question but ill explain: The house in interest is a REO property. Originally, we offfered on the house, it was accepted, we signed our portion of the addendums, and when we were waiting for the bank to sign their addendums the listing expired so apparently our offer was void. Then, we contacted the new listing realestate company, and made an offer, while we were waiting on the addendums to come back they called us and said that they did not want to do our fha 203k loan, and would drop the price by 10k if we did not. So we did what we could, and found a new route and the house would not be shown to any other interested parties. Then we get a call that the bank has recieved some cash offers during this time from people who never even got into the house. Since the cash offers were less but close to ours, they want to know our highest and best offer. What should i do? Is this even legal? Does it violate any fair housing laws or anything of that nature?
any help would be great!
Thanks

Yes, of course this is legal.

I do not know where you got the idea that property can’t be shown, but until there is a signed sales contract they are free to show and sell it to whoever they wish.

My house appriased at 110,000 2 years ago, since then we h ave completly gutted and renovated the following, master bedroom, bathroom, living room, and dining room. We have installed a secondary heating system. We have also added a 24 x 32 garage and a pool. along with replacing most of the electrical and plumbing. The best guess of what we have sunk in is between 40,000 and 50,000 just for materials. Our new appraial done last week only came in at 125,000. Can anyone explain to be how it is possible that I am not even able to recoup have of what we have put into the house. It doesnt seem to make any sense that putting that much money into improvements only yields a 15,000 increase in property value. That wont even touch what we have in the garagee alone. Should I order a second appraisal (the comps were on the other side of town) or have house values fallen that bad? The neighbors smaller house and smaller garage but similiar size lot is listed right now at 130,000.
So are you guys saying that a completly renovated 3br 2 bath house would have the same appraisal value as a non renovated 3br 2 bath?

Oh and I mentioned the neighbors house because they mentioned it to me telling me its hurting my value.

So adding a garage does not increase property value?

I am coming in late, after your additional comments.

Garages do not add $ value, although they do make selling easier.

The pool is a liability and decreases the value, as you lost land use and they are costly to operate. The pool is the reason your house is lower then your neighbors house.

You renovated the wrong things. The bathroom is good, but the kitchen would have been better then the bedrooms and the dining room. Unless you completely changed the flooring there isn’t that much to do to bedrooms.

Also, house prices were inflated 2 years ago, they have dropped to a more realistic amount in many areas of the country. I am in CA and they are 25% less then 2 years ago.

Will a realtor be willing to sign a contract that states their commission is anything above a certain dollar. I need to clear $300,000 so I want the contract to say that their commission is anything above $300K. So if it sells for $320,000, they get $20,000…if it sells for $301,000 they get $1,000. Would a realtor do that? Can they do that? I spoke with realtors and they say they would list it for $319,000 and I should have no problem getting $315,000.

This is a net listing and is NOT legal.

The realtor has no way to effect the market value of your home. It will sell for what it’s worth. Just because you ‘need’ it to sell for 300k doesn’t mean that it will.

i am an independent employer, working to get people to buy or invest in realestate in Dubai. I need some kind of software that would organize my contacts/signed deals via the Net so that i don’t get scammed and keep track of my commisions for each project.

Outlook has a good contact manager, is ok for tracking billings.

Quickbooks is good for tracking billing, and ok for contacts.

A simple list in Excel or Word may be your best bet.

http://www.realestate.com.au/directory/rental_properties/wa/perth_city_region.html

www.domain.com.au/real-estate/rent/wa/perth+region/7.html

www.myhome.com.au/rent/wa/perth

www.rentfind.com.au/

www.aussiemove.com/rental7.htm

www.property.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?o=def&t=ren&a=s&u=perth&s=wa&m=1&p=200

www.accessproperty.com.au

All of them are pretty good

We want to list timeshare resales but don’t see a category for either timeshares or timeshare resales. How would we list that and how would people find that?
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craigslist.org would be the best advice I could give. It’s a great all-around resource for anything.

in case anyone sees this infomercial… it is a $8500 credit card scam… they provide you with information that you can get at your courthouse.. there is no inside information that they get exclusively from the u.s. government.. and your not going to buy the property for a couple hundred dollars.. like they lead you to believe.. i have attended sheriff sales.. and you can buy stuff cheaper than at a regular auction… but you must have 10-20% cash on hand immediately to purchase if you are winning bidder.. if not they take you before the judge right then for contempt of court.. this isn’t something to play around with..
their disk with lists of websites that will let you sit at home and buy and sale from the internet is a miss leading too.. i ran down most of these websites and they either take you in circles or dead ends.. and alot of them take you to pages no longer on the net…
please don’t let this infomercial ruin u financially…

thnx for warning