Survey and Property Description Tutorial

[DLB777]

First time property buyers' eyes generally glaze over when they look at the survey or legal description for their new property. This is an important component of any real estate transaction and should not be overlooked.

The online tutorial, "How to Read a Survey," helps people understand their property descriptions and surveys, and shows them how to look for potential discrepancies or errors.

The goal is to teach someone how to read a survey and property description within an hour. It'll sell cheap at $12.77, with a 75% commission for affiliates.

This is certainly not an entertaining, Oscar-winning video performance, but I do hope it is educational.

If anyone wants to take a look and give feedback within the next 24 hours, I'd be grateful. Please PM me...any comments that are posted will receive a backlink.

Many thanks,
Deborah

[Max]

Deborah, is there an example online that people around here could take a look at? If there is one - post a link to it.

[DLB777]

Hi Max,

I've received some feedback and the video is now for sale. However, if people are sincerely interested, then they can PM me before 8/9/06 for a back page loop where they don't have to pay, and I'd welcome feedback. I'm paying 75% commissions on this ... the Realtors and Brokers who looked at it felt it was right on target and I had one Realtor ask that I develop a whole series of courses. It's at http://www.surveyrecordings.com

On a different topic, one thing I've been thinking about is creating a "Tales from the Crypt" type of real estate ebooklet or membership about things that people should look out for before buying. Having contributions from real estate professionals would be great and could be a source of advertising for the contributors. It could be a fun Halloween project...with everyone sharing in whatever profits there are. I've seen many real estate horror stories over the past 20 years...human interest stories are a great way to educate people about real estate.

Many thanks,
Deborah

[kensmith]

If you want some horror stories I am in. Here is a fun one for you that just happened:

My buyers agent had a client that wanted to move a little further west and get a bigger house. They put their home for sale by owner and got a contract. At that point my buyer agent started taking them out for their new home. The buyers already had some small credit issues, but nothing that couldn't be overcome with their 10-15% down payment and a slightly higher interest rate.

They found a great home only a few years old that was a forclosure. At the end of the day they had an agreed price on the home for $25-30k below market value. Unlike most forclosures this home is in move in condition and only needs a fridge, washer, and dryer (those normally stay in our area). Everything was going great.

Then a week before closing the bank decided to pull credit again before closing. For some stupid reason the client had missed their last mortgage payment and their credit score dropped BIG time. With the loss of an extra 100+ points they no longer could qualify for ANY mortgage. It was only days before the closing on their home so they had no choice but to go forward with that sale. They are now homeless because they felt that it wasn't a big deal to make the last coule mortgage payments as it would be "paid at closing".

Feel free to use that story and I have others. If there is a split the profits type of arrangement I am in, but will send all of my profits to a local agent that has cancer. He is not able to really do any business as he is to weak from the treatments and his wife got laid off shortly after he found out he had cancer. We have raised thousands for him already, but it really isn't much compared to what he needs. He is the type of person that would help anyone who needed it so he deserves a little help.