The landlord has no right to simply give you 24 hour notice to show the house to prospective buyers, unless such right is specified in the lease and I have never seen that. Most residential leases (about 95%) are prepared on standard forms written by lawyers for the state or national associations of Realtors or that of Professional Publishing Corp. (check in a top corner or at the bottom of the page, especially the last page of the lease for any copyright) and none that I know of or have seen had and any such ornery provision.

The landlord or his agent have the right to enter when you requested a repair to be made at the dwelling, or in case of a bona-fide emergency when you are not at home. The landlord or his agent have the right to periodic inspections, say once or at most twice a year. The courts in the past have held that routine quarterly or more frequent inspections are unreasonable and unenforceable. So, you can agree with your landlord to allow an agent to show the house, but then you can also ask for a rent concession for that agreement because of the burdens imposed on you.

Your landlord can sell the home you have leased, but he can sell only a LEASED FEE estate and not grant a buyer FEE SIMPLE title. This sale will not affect or modify your rights under your lease, but you simply will get a new and substituted landlord. No paperwork is necessary for that, but the new owner has to advise you on where to send the rent check.

Most abandoned property laws are that you must attempt to contact the owner of the property and give them 30 days to get the items. You may also have to post public notice (like in the penny save or classifieds section). Once that time frame is up, you can do with them what you wish. I would probably post an ad in the newspaper & on craigslist saying "junk. free. u-haul." and then a short description of a the items. Post a photo (on CL) and after that, call some junk haulers to come get the bus and rent a dumpster to get rid of the rest.

Just google "real estate, short sale" and you will get an excellent explanation of a ’short sale’ and it will be a learning process for you.

I have been searching for a home in oakland CA because I heard of the high foreclosure rates, but it doesn’t make since that you could buy a home for $3,000.

What are the real prices of these homes?

Those look like they might be redemption prices, how much was not paid. Foreclosures sell for about 90% of fair market value.

Without addresses it is hard to tell what the real prices are, but I will see if I can find an example and post it.

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That took me awhile. They are pulling default notices and calling them foreclosures. Those homes are not for sale at all and have not been foreclosed on. The owners are late paying their mortgage, but that is the extent of it.

I found one real foreclosure, http://realestate.aol.com/foreclosures/Surrey_Ln-Oakland-CA-94605/4.32112323

However they are saying it is only 459,146 when the actual list price is $599,000

Listing the default notices seems to be a lure to get you to pay for information that is actualy free.

Free listing services are much preferred.

http://www.realtor.com/realestate/las+vegas-nv-89101-1091670662/

www.postlets.com
www.trulia.com
www.zillow.com
www.craigslist.com

If you didn’t, then that’s your fault.

Contracts don’t require that type of disclosure if the house was moved from another location.

Technically, it WAS stick built…just not where it is now.

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Buyers always want to negotiate down. So, if a seller lists his home higher than those around it and/or higher than what he actually really wants, he can afford to negotiate down and still get the amount of profit from the sale that he desires.

Also, in this market there are so many sellers that are having to short-sale their homes. They owe more than what the home is worth (and what others around them are worth), so they price high, hoping they can eke out every penny they can so that the gap when they sell is as small as possible.

Then there are foreclosures. Banks price foreclosures low, in order to get them to sell quickly, and there are tons of them now. The low price of a foreclosure can make a house next door that’s actually priced appropriately look as though it’s priced high.

Some sellers can afford to price their homes high and wait for them to sell, while others are desperate to get out and will take whatever they can get – whether it’s a fair price or not.

And also, it has a lot to do with how much the seller really knows about real estate. A seller that doesn’t know anything is likely to take the advice of the realtor. The realtor is also going to suggest the highest price possible in order to get a bigger commission.

“Guide to Listings Submission” Technical Spec

xml is Excel spreadsheet format.

The fields list is all you need. Copy the field list across the top row in a new Excel page. Then fill in the details underneath, for your your property. It will include items like real estate type (house, condo etc), for sale or rental, address, various description fields, and things such as DisloseAddress, which you fill with Yes if you want it done and No if you don’t want it. Any that don’t apply to your ad, just leave blank.

This lets you submit numerous properties on one XML sheet, one property per row on the sheet.

If you could come back here and put the link for the page that directs you to that PDF, I could look it up for you and give you better details.
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I see what you mean.

Address type the address.

Other items where it days "decimal" just type numbers eg 56000.00 or 3.5, no commas or dollar signs.

"String" means words, eg name of provider (you) or builder.

for "Enumeration" they’ve listed all the choices you have. I get the impression you need to put these into quotes, the way they have them shown.

Woops, further down (purchase, lease, rent etc) they DON’T have them in quotes. Try them each way.

I suggest you copy only the compulsory fields to your spreadsheet, and submit ONE sample, with one item in quotes and one not. See which one comes out and then stick with that style for the rest.

listingsKey and ListingKey are confusingly NOT THE SAME. The top one is a code you invent eg "julylisting1" for the whole ad; the second is another one you invent for this particular property only, eg "wiscCondo".

"integer" means a number, eg 500 (square feet).

Anywhere that says "Boolean" means yes/no. They don’t specify whether to write Yes/no, so it might be better to use computer boolean, which is 1 for yes and 0 for no.

Where they ask for URLs, eg for images, put the images into Flickr and give the URL for that page.

Once you’ve worked out your test submission, also add in the next page of non-compulsory items, as some of them would be of good value to potential buyers.

Section 6 – Data Transmission tells you the address to upload your file to. I suggest you name your files with some initials, such as your company initials, and the date, eg MRL20100705.xml.

WOW they expect a lot of computer expertise from real estate experts. I hope this helps you get started.

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