Clutter-free interiors allow potential home buyers to see all of the home can offer — resulting in a shorter sales and a higher selling price. The fewer items there are in a home, the easier it is for a home shopper to visualize the space of their own.  I pick up some good declutter tips from the PODS. Over 80 % real estate agents agree with de-clutter homes helps the sells but only 30% of the listing agents were actually de-clutter their listings.  Some sellers are serious about selling you should go over with your home to de-clutter them.

Offer these easy decluttering tips to home owners:

1. If an item hasn’t been used in three months, box it up and take it offsite.

2. Limit items in closets and drawers to make them seem more spacious.

3. Remove excess and or worn furniture to create more room. The old files, books and memorabilia should be stored away from the house. You could rent the a mini storage to store them.

4. Remove excess and or worn furniture to create more room.

5. Pack away off-season clothes. Buyers value storage. Don’t just stash items in the basement or the garage - take them offsite.

6. Remove excess items from decks, driveways and the yard, including kids toys and pool supplies

7. Park away additonal car or cars you don’t drive often.

Don’t foget to maintain the de-cluttered home during the home is on the market to sell.

 I found an interesting article of the -Top 10 recession proof cities from the forbes.com . The City of

        2). The median home price data from the National Association of Realtors—from the fourth quarter of 2006 to the fourth quarter of 2007–to see which areas posted the largest annual gains. Our data don’t account for the impact of declining sales in the first several months of this year.

         3).The numbers were adjusted using data from a November 2007 report, “U.S. Metro Economies: The Mortgage Crisis,” by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. It lists each city’s estimated gross metropolitan product growth by projecting how rising foreclosures and falling home prices would affect overall levels of productivity in local economies

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www.reil.com today. It shows the

Lynbrook High schools area real estate is still in demend.

The rating of this school is 10 out 10 from the greatschools.net.

It shows a  lot of detailing. The back yard is kind of small. The lowest single family home is located at

My client asked me yesterday that “How can I  take advantage of real estate down turn market of 2008?”

1). Move up to another home:

If you cannot win the over bid  to buy a home at year 2005 or 2007, Don’t worry! Now is your time to move up  to a home with  better schools and or also larger.

2). Buy a mutiple units:

Use the renter’s rent to pay your mortgage. Find one can break even on monthly mortgage. For example: there is a duplex in Sunnyvale 380 Morse Ave Sunnyvale asking for $630K.  It has 3 bedrooms 2 baths in the front and 2 bedrooms 2 baths in the back.It is in a fair condition and it is on a quiet  tree lined street. The buyer can live in one and rent the others. If you can put down $160,000 down payment $470K as loan for 6.125% 30 yrs fix. The monthly payment will be $2892. The back unit could rented for $1500.00 then your own monthly payment will $1392. Don’t forget to check current mortgage with your own lender. Last week I heard this home is pending.

3). Refiance your current jumbo loan:

The new Jumbo conforming is rasied up to $729,000 and last week we can get a jumbo confirming for 6.125% 30 years fix with 0 point.

Yesterday I read an article of “No deal for anxious home buyers” by Sue McAllister of the San Jose Mercury news. She mentioned that “more than 900 houses for sale in

I saw  a blog article of how to buy foreclosure home was written  by Norman of myeastbayagent.com

He listed the following 4 steps:

1. Define your strategy.

2. Is your financing in place?

3. Don’t be disapoointed by rejection or failure.

4. Write clean offers, write clean offers, write clean offers.

Of course it is over simplified steps of buying foreclosure home. If you are interested in buying foreclosure home, Please contact me.