Where do you turn for help? Agent, Friend, Relative in Hamilton Mill and Dacula

So where do you go to get advice on the real estate market in Hamilton Mill or the surrounding Dacula GA area? Friends, relatives, neighbors in Hamilton Mill?

No one knows the market like a experienced, FULL TIME real estate agent. If you do not ask or use my services, please get help from another qualified agent and from someone who knows what they are doing.  I work at this full time and it is my goal to provide 100% satisifed clients. Do I do this every time? Of course not. I screw up but I learn from my errors.

Hate to see bad representation in today’s tough market in Hamilton Mill and Dacula, much less anywhere for that matter.  Bad representation will cost you.

Hamilton Mill Short Sale and Foreclosure Workshop

I am getting a lot of questions about the upcoming Short Sale and Foreclosure Workshop in the Hamilton Mill Lakeview clubhouse scheduled for October 26, 2010 from 7-8:30 pm. The general public is welcome to attend along with Hamilton Mill residents.  This is not only for Hamilton Mill, Dacula residents.

We have set the workshop up to answer a lot of questions about how to buy Short Sale and Foreclosure properties but we will also cover general topics on short sales and how to navigate through the short sale process.

If you want to search homes for sale that are currently in foreclosure, check out my SITE here.

If you are behind or about to fall behind on your mortgage in and around the Hamilton Mill area this will be a informative discussion. If you are an investor looking to take advantage of the real estate market, this also will be greatly beneficial to you.

Finally, if you or someone you know is behind on their mortgage, please check this site out for more information and how I can help you either save your home or avoid foreclosure.

Foreclosure Is Not The Only Option

Make it a great day.

Hamilton Mill – Hey Neybor! Matt Hermes in Dacula GA

Hey Neybor?! You may want to get ready to hear that term a lot moving forward in and around Dacula, GA and Hamilton Mill. No that is not a misspelling.

More details to follow soon, but I just got hooked up with this company that is doing some really cool stuff on the tech side of things (thanks Matt Fagioli) and I will be exploring how to better market all my inventory of homes and do some hyper local marketing for Hamilton Mill.

Stay tuned.

Hermes Family Shoes For The Souls – Hamilton Mill, Dacula GA

Well, I sit here writing this blog post with a freezing cold head after allowing my youngest daughter McClain to shave my hair yesterday. Over the past month, McClain (9 years old) and I have been hard at work in Hamilton Mill and the surrounding areas collecting shoes for the Atlanta Mission.

In 2009, we were able to collect 365 pair of shoes from Hamilton Mill and other neighbrohoods and schools in the area. When we set out this year I told McClain that we should try to increase the goal to 400 pair. Well, as we quickly reached that plateau, I made the comment that if we reached 1,000 pair I would let her shave my head. Not a very bright idea on my part. 1,598 pairs later I am sitting here bald.

Want to check out the video of the haircut? Matt’s New Do

Well, we took off and ran with this thing and Hamilton Mill, Pucketts Mill Elementary, Cedar Hill Elementary, Keller Williams Realty and a number of other schools, chruches and organizations helped us raise 1,598 pairs of shoes for what we call our Shoes For The Souls program for the Atlanta Mission.

This is not a high tech fundraiser that allows us to collect funding or provide tax receipts. This is simply and father and daughter out in the community trying to do a little good. Tough times are with us all and we have been through some ourselves lately and we simply wanted to do something to help others and teach McClain a lesson in giving back to the community.

To see the amount of shoes that we generated was amazing. 1,598 pair is a LOT of shoes. We had to go so far as to rent a box truck to get the shoes to the drop off point at the Atlanta Mission. Thankfully I had some neighbors in Hamilton Mill help with the loading of the shoes.

McClain’s favorite part of the experience was getting to tour the facility yesterday and getting interviewed for a tv story that is going to aired shortly. She asked so many questions about the facility and came up with a new Community Service project that Carmen and I are sworn to secrecy over. Too funny. Me, I was really impressed with the Mission and how well it was operated.  They also recently changed names from the Atlanta Union Mission to simply the Altanta Misison.

Anyway, a huge thanks to all of you out there who donated to our little cause. To see the faces on the staff and those who were going to be getting some new shoes yesterday was awesome. Worth the time and effort.

Pending Home Sales Rise 5.2% – Hamilton Mill, Dacula GA

Well another report with mixed signals that will continue to confuse anyone and everyone who is looking to buy or sell real estate. Bottom line is this in my opinion.

You cannot gauge when the market is at its low point. Once you realize that the market is at its low, it has already started back up. Similarly, you cannot guess when the market is at its peak. Once you realize that the market has started to lose value.

So I suggest that you buy or sell when YOU are ready not when someone tells you that you should buy or sell.

Here is the USA Today article.

Want to see what homes are on the market in Hamilton Mill? Click here.

www.HamiltonMill.co

I am really excited to see my new website at www.hamiltonmill.co has made it to the first page in Google after only 14 days. Pretty good stuff.

Yes, that is a .co address.

www.HamiltonMill.co is correct and this is my newest site for all Hamilton Mill homes for sale as well as any other homes currently for sale in the area.

Questions? Looking to buy or sell? Give me a call.

Deed For Lease Option – Hamilton Mill /Gwinnett County Help

Attention Hamilton Mill homeowners and all other owners who are having trouble making their house payments and are looking at the possibility of foreclosure.

If your financial situation has become unmanageable, the thought of leaving your home may be unbearable. But with the realization that you cannot make your monthly mortgage payments you know there is not a lot of options. You do not want to leave your neighborhood, take your kids out of theit home school and find a new place to live. The Dee-For-Lease Option might be what you need.

Fannie Mae has approved a new program for struggling homeowners that will allow them to stay in their homes and lease back the house. The program is called the “Deed-For-Lease Option”. You can avoid foreclosure while still being able to remain in your home.

The program allows you to remain in the home and lease it from Fannie Mae after you have transferred the title to your property to the mortgage company. The lease term is 12 months or more and the monthly rental is based on the current market value of rates in our area.

Want to find out more about this option? Give me a call or email me and I will pass this information onto you.

Hamilton Mill Homeowners Do You Need To Relax?

Over the past three years I have received numerous requests for information and advice form homeowners who are possibly going to losing their home to foreclosure.

This is such a devastating thought and one I am well aware of as many of us have to decide what to do with our homes. The possibility of losing ones home is so frustrating and stressful.

I talk with people all the time that think that what they are going through is all their fault and there is plenty of blame that is laid on one spouse or the other. Here is what I tell them.

If you or your spouse could have predicted that these three things combined were going to happen then it is ok to be mad at the other spouse:

1. The stock market was going to lose almost 50% of its value a couple of years ago and we would continue to struggle thru those losses today then it is OK to be mad.

2. If you knew that the unemployment rate was going to increase to over 10% and that millions of American, you included, would hae lost your job and have to go on unemployment for months on end, then it is OK to be mad.

3. If either of you could have predicted that the housing market was going to collapse and we would lose over 30% of the value of our homes, or more, then it is OK to be mad.

However if you did not see all three of these issues happening, then give the other person in your relatioship a break and work together to figure out a solution. This stinks, not two ways about it. Let’s put a plan together to work through this and if the worst thing that happens is you lose your home then so be it. It is not the end of the world.

Keep the faith and keep your family intact.

My two cents.

Homebuilder confidence lower. Hamilton Mill and Dacula Ga

Well, here we go again. Another day another article new article on the housing market with mixed messages. I read just the other day about how the real estate market is turning for the better and that Buyer confidence is higher than any time in the past year.

Now, a new story in USA Today advises us that Builder confidence is slipping in light of the recent expiration of the housing tax credit.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2010-06-15-homebuilders-index_N.htm?csp=usat.me

Perception is reality without reason. The market is what you make it. I refuse to give into other peoples reality. We all need to get out there and make it happen.

My new tool for real estate : iPad

Got it today. My iPad and I was already able to use it with clients. Took it with me to show some houses and we were able to view comparable sales and listings within the local area. Already paid for itself the first day.