Top 10 Reasons You Haven't Called Me.

#10 You enjoy calling agent after agent playing the old "let's swap names" game.
#9 You think I'm going to bite.
#8 You just came from one of those seminars and the Real Estate Guru told you that you needed to listen to all his tapes before you called anybody.
#7 You were going to but forgot.
#6 You own a gas station so you can afford to pump tank after tank of unleaded in your car running around looking at houses that don't interest you.
#5 You first aunt's second cousin's sister Marlene has a real estate license.
#4 Someone lied and told you I would charge you a commission.
#3 You want to pay to much for a house.
#2 Your dog ate your cell phone.
#1 You didn't know I would be tickled pink to give you all the information you want (including addresses) of all the properties you might be interested in.

No kidding, give me a call. I'll give you all the information you need on any property listed in the area FREE, No HASSLES, NO KIDDING.

John Wall
TeamResults@Century21.com (562) 449-8421
Serving All of Long Beach and Southern California Communities

Housing Bubble

The State of Long Beach Real Estate

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Or Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

 

The bubble, the bubble - Oh no! The Bubble!!! 

Relax, there is no bubble. Here's why. California's Real Estate Market is
directly affected by one thing. Population. Everybody needs a place to sleep and
as long as our population continues to increase so to will the need for housing.
Be it home purchasers or renters - this market will remain hot as long as people
want to live in California communities. Do I smell a mass exodus coming?

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Long Beach's population according to the United
States Census Bureau:

Year Surveyed	2004	2000	1994
Population	476,564	461,522	429,433

More home buyers use the internet

A CAR (California Association of Realtors®) survey conducted
in March 2005 had some interesting findings.

Almost 2/3 of first time homebuyers used the internet as a significant part
of the home buying process. Interestingly, less than half of repeat home
buyers used the internet. I thought it would be fun to post some of the results
from the survey:

1. Median age of internet home buyer was 39


2. 9 out of 10 were married


3. 85% had college degrees and had average income of $185,088 /annual


4. 0% (yes zero percent) considered information found on the internet more
   important than information from their real estate agent


5. Internet buyers spent 5 weeks less searching for the home they would
   eventually purchase than their non-internet user counterparts

So what have we learned here? 1.) call me. 2.) the internet is good 3.) all
those failed dot com-ers are buying houses using the internet but relying their
realtors more.