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Baton Rouge Real Estate: Understanding and Avoiding Mortgage Fraud

Baton Rouge Real Estate: Understanding and Avoiding Mortgage Fraud The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting article: Mortgage Fraud: Understanding And Avoiding It . Here’s a snippet below: “Ethical violations and criminal activities in various industries have affected our economy over the past few decades, particularly in the banking, financial and housing sectors. In this […]

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LPS Schedules Baton Rouge Foreclosed Homes Auction

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – LPS Schedules Baton Rouge Foreclosed Homes Auction. According to the Jacksonville FL Business Journal, LPS will hold an auction for Baton Rouge foreclosed homes. Click below to read the entire article. Here’s a snippet: “A division of Lender Processing Services Inc. is conducting an online auction of bank-foreclosed homes nationwide for a bid […]

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Baton Rouge Appraisers Photos From The Field: Southdowns Renovation Projects Underway

http://www.fhaappraisersbatonrouge.com/ – Baton Rouge Appraisers Photos From The Field: Southdowns Renovation Projects Underway These are some recent photos I took of renovation projects taking place within the Southdowns housing market. There were multiple projects underway.     Tags: Baton Rouge Real Estate, Baton Rouge Estate Appraisers, Baton Rouge Real Estate Appraisers, Baton Rouge Southdowns, Baton […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate Home Selling Tips: 4 Ways To Sell Your Home Faster

http://www.appraisersinbatonrouge.com/ – Baton Rouge Real Estate Home Selling Tips: 4 Ways To Sell Your Home Faster. This article was written for homeowners and may be helpful for Real Estate Agents as well.   CBS Money Watch is reporting on 4 Ways To Sell Your Home Faster! Click the blue link to read the article! Here’s […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate Agents: Would A Geographical Competency Map Of Your Previous Listings Help You Earn More Listings?

http://www.batonrougerealestatebuzz.com/ – Baton Rouge Real Estate Agents: Would A Geographical Competency Map Of Your Previous Listings Help You Earn More Listings? If you’re an experienced agent, it certainly would by adding hundreds of red labels on a Google map. As the map above illustrates, I recently learned how to use Google Maps to Geocode some […]

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Baton Rouge FHA Home Appraiser, Bill Cobb, Creates A Geographical Competency Map

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – Baton Rouge FHA Home Appraiser, Bill Cobb, Creates A Geographical Competency Map Baton Rouge Home Appraiser, Bill Cobb, with Accurate Valuations Group, recently created a geographical competency map showing the main concentration of appraisal assignments since 2001.  Although Bill has been appraising homes since 1991, only the current data from 2001 forward was […]

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This Month in US Real Estate April 2010 Video, Does It Apply To Baton Rouge Real Housing Market?

http://www.batonrougerealestatetube.com/ – This Month in US Real Estate April 2010 Video, Does It Apply To Baton Rouge Real Housing Market?

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Baton Rouge Certified Home Appraisers: Area Home Sales See Gains In March

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – Baton Rouge Certified Home Appraisers: Area Home Sales See Gains In March   The Advocate Newspaper and Chad Calder are reporting “BR-area home sales see gain in March“, click on the link to read the entire article. Below is a snippet: “The number of homes sold in the Baton Rouge metro area rose […]

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Video Of Baton Rouge Homes Value: How Much Value Do Pools and Metal Buildings Add?

http://www.batonrougerealestatebuzz.com/ – Video Of Baton Rouge Homes Value: How Much Value Do Pools and Metal Buildings Add? In this video, Realtor and Broker, Tony Zito, and Home Appraiser, Bill Cobb, discuss how appraisers value pools and metal buildings. Generally, the return might be 1/4 to 1/3 of investment, but not always. Sometimes pools have no […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate Trends Seminar Themes 1 of 3: Real Estate Perks Up

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – Baton Rouge Real Estate Trends Seminar Themes 1 of 3: Real Estate Perks Up The annual Trends Seminar was held yesterday with multiple keynote speakers. The Advocates’s recap of the seminar is located here, under Baton Rouge Real Estate Perks Up. There were 3 major themes during the seminar, one being that local […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate: Google developing tablet to rival iPad.

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – Baton Rouge Real Estate Tech Gadgets: Google developing tablet to rival iPad. Mashable Blog has announced that Google is developing a tablet to rival iPad. And, unlike the iPad, which I would not buy because it doesn’t play 90% of video on the web today via “Flash Video”, the Google tablet will play […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – Good News For Baton Rouge Real Estate! TBWS Video: Congressman Works to End HVCC. 04.10.15 Today’s Show Covers: WaMu getting probed. Congress helps with extensions. One steps up to end HVCC. Tags: Baton Rouge Estate Appraisers, baton rouge homes, baton rouge housing, baton rouge real estate, baton rouge real estate agents, baton rouge […]

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Livingston Parish Sees Higher Priced Homes Decline In Sales Volume and Pricing

http://www.denhamspringslarealestate.net/ – Livingston Parish Sees Higher Priced Homes Decline In Sales Volume and Pricing! According to Tom Cook and the Baton Rouge Business Report Weekly this week, “The largest increase in the volume of sales took place in Livingston Parish in the $100,000 to $150,000 price range. From March 2008 to February 2009, there were […]

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Livingston Parish Sees 106 Percent Volume Increase In Home Sales

http://www.denhamspringslarealestate.net/ – Livingston Parish Sees Largest Volume Increase In Home Sales Although the Denham Springs median home sales price appears to have declined between 5% to 6% since March 2009, according to the Baton Rouge Business Report Weekly this week, Livingston Parish experienced the largest increase in volume of home sales in Greater Baton Rouge. […]

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More New Baton Rouge Condos For The Saturated LSU Housing Market – Brightside Estates North

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – More New Baton Rouge Condos For The Saturated LSU Housing Market – Brightside Estates North I just finished a three (3) bedroom Townhome appraisal off Brightside Dr yesterday where the marketing time was 262 days on the market. Two (2) of the comparable sales used, sold in 2010, were on the market for […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate Agent Tips: The Importance Of Sending Those Thank You Notes!

http://www.batonrougerealestatebuzz.com/ – Baton Rouge Real Estate Agent Tips: The Importance Of Sending Those Thank You Notes!   Back in early 2004, I released the “Reapptools” Home Appraiser Marketing Guide. Some of the readers of this blog purchased that guide. While the implementation HVCC has eliminated some of the marketing methods recommended in the guide, there […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate Buzz: Multiple Renovations and New Homes In University Gardens 70808

http://www.batonrougerealestatebuzz.com/ – Baton Rouge Real Estate Buzz: Multiple Renovations and New Homes In University Gardens 70808 I was appraising a home in University Gardens on Saturday and noticed a substantial amount of renovations projects taking place along with these two new homes under construction on corner lots back-to-back below. It appears the trend in this […]

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Baton Rouge Real Estate Photos From The Field: Central Thruway Progress Photos

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – Baton Rouge Real Estate Photos From The Field: Central Thruway Progress Photos As Of April 10, 2010 The last major news article I could locate on the Central Thruway project was on May 20, 2009 from The Advocate here! A snippet of the article stated: “The work order was issued on Monday marking […]

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Certified FHA Appraisers Baton Rouge: Good News For Greater Baton Rouge Housing Market?

http://www.appraisersinbatonrouge.com/ – Certified FHA Appraisers Baton Rouge: Good News For Greater Baton Rouge Housing Market? The “Guys” at TBWS Have Good News For A Change! “Foreclosures are upon us, but someone has to sell them. 5 reasons there isn’t going to be a double dip. Home Depot is hiring, 64% of Americans feel now is […]

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Video: How 2009 Major Appraisal Industry Changes Have Impacted Greater Baton Rouge Real Estate, Part 2

https://www.batonrougerealestateappraisal.com// – Video: How 2009 Major Appraisal Industry Changes Have Impacted Baton Rouge Real Estate, Part 2 Baton Rouge Real Estate: How 2009 Appraisal Industry Changes Are Impacting Baton Rouge Housing, Part 2. In this video, Bill Cobb Appraiser and Realtor/Broker Tony Zito discuss home appraisal industry changes and how those changes are impacting Baton […]

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