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Sep 04, 2023 Are real estate agents in New Mexico really agents?Published 4 September 2023 According to the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (www.arello.org) there are approximately 3 million individuals in the U.S. who currently hold active real estate licenses. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), about 1.6 million, or 53 percent, of those folks are Realtors. Closer to home, the New
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Aug 21, 2023 Cashing in on builder incentives can be challenging
Published 21 August 2023 The following is a true story. It was a beautiful day in Las Cruces. A first-time buyer was shopping for her new home. She had already met with two builders that week (let’s refer to them as builders A and B) and had just arrived at builder C’s model-home sales office.
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Published 14 August 2023 Home title theft is definitely a “thing.” According to the FBI, home title thieves use forged deeds to put someone else’s home or other property into their name. The perpetrator then sells the property to an unsuspecting buyer or fools a lender into making a loan against the property. The scammer
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Aug 07, 2023 Rental scams plague Las Cruces landlords, tenants
Published 7 August 2023 A few years ago, the Las Cruces Police Department reported that two local families had fallen victim to rental fraud. In one case, a family who was relocating to Las Cruces from California was scammed out of $1,000 while trying to rent a home listed on Craig’s List. In another report,
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Jul 31, 2023 Is renter’s insurance worth the cost?
Published 31 July 2023 According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (https://www.bjs.gov), apartment dwellers are 50 percent more likely to be victims of theft than people who own homes. Despite that fact, a survey of 1,400 renters by Apartments.com revealed that just over two-thirds of apartment dwellers and more than half of home renters don’t
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Jul 24, 2023 Rent-to-own benefit both buyers and sellers
Published 24 July 2023 When young renters Mark and Sylvia decided to make the transition from tenant-life to homeownership, they had a fairly good idea their past credit indiscretions would make it difficult to qualify for a mortgage. After discussing their plight with a mortgage lender, they were disappointed to learn that it could take
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