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No New Loans!

Last year I had a client who despite my efforts, and the loan officer’s efforts, to explain the mortgage process made a pretty big mistake. Before starting our home search we sat down with the loan officer to determine the payment he was comfortable with and get his mortgage pre-qualification letter. The client said he [...]

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IBSTeam Real Estate Directory

IBS Team Real Estate Directory provides quality advertisement for Real Estate Agents web sites. Besides regular listing with your web site name and description it gives you two additional direct links to your MLS/Home Search and Agent’s/Office Property Listings. There is a free listing details page comes with it, which may be featured with your [...]

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Burlington County November Market Review

It is typical for a market slow down in the Burlington County area as we approached the holiday season and the winter months. This year, November had 764 properties listed with 530 properties sold. The number of properties listed is a significant increase compared to the properties listed in November over the last couple of [...]

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Don’t Skip the Pre-Settlement Walk Through

I figured I’d start out with horror story of my own. I was fresh out of real estate school, had a couple of pending contracts, and was on my way to my very first settlement. I had the buyer during this transaction. Throughout the previous couple of weeks the buyer and seller had been in [...]

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Real Estate Horror Stories

This section of my site is devoted to tales of transactions "gone wrong". Throughout each transaction there are many reasons that could cause a real estate transaction to fall apart. The purpose of this section is to give you, the future home sellers or buyers, an understanding of how different things can affect your real [...]

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Voorhees Property Tax Assessments

An arictle printed in the Courier Post this morning discussed the Voorhees property tax assessment. The article title and excerpts are as follows:

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Best and Most Dangerous Places to Live

This year Moorestown, NJ was named the No.1 "Best Places to Live" for 2005 by Money Magazine and CNN/Money. Researching over 1300 cities in the country, Money Mag and CNN choose their top 10 and Moorestown ranked above the rest. In November, Morgan Quinton announced their results for the 12th annual America’s Safest and Most [...]

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Staging your Home for Sale – the Prep Steps

You don’t have to be a professional home stager, or higher one, in order to obtain a faster sale and a higher offer. Follow these simple guidelines and you can make your home stand out from it’s competition. Before Showings Begin – Prepare Your Home Prep Step 1: Clean! Before you let a potential buyer [...]

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Mortgage Fraud on the Rise

I came across these articles today that discuss the increase of white collar crimes in the mortgage industry. The first article states the following: "Another rapidly-growing threat the FBI investigates is mortgage fraud. Nearly 22,000 mortgage-related suspicious activity reports have been filed this year. Losses have increased from $429 million in 2004 to over $1 [...]

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Welcome!

Hello and thanks for stopping in. I’ve created this blog to talk about the different aspects of real estate in the Burlington County and Camden County area, as well as to share some personal experiences. For starters my name is Roxanne Ardary a.k.a “Real Estate Rox”. I will begin with how I got into real [...]

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