Friday, April 30, 2010

Friday Foreclosure List for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.30

This featured (pictured home) is a great deal priced to sell at $215,000 and located in Puyallup. It's a 4 bed 3 bath 1760 square foot home situated on a large .26 lot just over a 1/4 acre. It's a HUD home which requires special details and knowledge in writing an offer. With help writing an offer on this or any other bank owned home or Puyallup foreclosures, please contact Tom Tuttle me@tomtuttle.me or 253-686-3992.

For the 3rd straight quarter, the U.S. economy has posted growth. This coupled with the increase in sales from last weeks post ... up nearly 7% in home sales...has many economists skeptically optimistic :). We will soon find out. With today being the last day to capitalize on the extended home buyer tax credit, anyone who intended on buying will have purchased and those that sit idle will continue to wait. So, will there be a lull in the sales for the next few months...I'll keep you posted.
Friday Foreclosure List for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.30

Friday, April 23, 2010

Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.23

Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.23.  Only 17 this week and already 3 at "Pending" or " Pending Inspection" status. A sign of the times? Perhaps. Home sales jumped last month by 6.8% for existing home sales. Additionally, "new" home sales soared by 27%, nationally. This is skewed by home sales that escalated at an alarming rate of 43.5% in the South and a healthy/sustainable rate of 6-7% here in the Northwest (this according to a new report released by CNN).


Additionally, these percentages are skewed by the first time home buyer tax credit deadline April 30th. Everyone is hurrying to get "in contract". The guidelines state that as long as you are in contract (mutual acceptance with all signatures) and close by June 30, 2010, you are eligible for either the move up credit or first time home buyer credit. The last tax credit brought a flurry of buyers and closings for November and December 2009 kept real estate agents in the game. However, it created a lull in the market and January through March were dismal; a feast and famine market. Let's hope that these latest numbers help to sustain us through the next winter! For more information on this or anything else, please click or call Tom Tuttle 253-686-3992 or me@tomtuttle.me .

Attention real estate investors, next month is your month! With a lull in sales inevitable, the post-tax-credit market, will be prime for the pickings! Look at the prices for these Tacoma bank owned homes / Tacoma foreclosures. Now is the time! Yes, you've heard that before, but with a push in sales and prices like this...you can't miss. Again, I'm happy to help!
Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.23

Friday, April 16, 2010

Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes as 4.16

Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes as April 16th, 2010. 8115 43rd St Ct NW Gig Harbor, WA 98335 priced at $509,900 3 bed 2.50 bath 4922 sq. ft. 2.5 ac / built in 2000 and assessed at $554,200. This may or may not include the addtional space above the garage, which by the way is a total of 6 car garage. If you're looking for a large home in Gig Harbor, give me a call and we'll take a look... me@tomtuttle.me or 253-686-3992. Otherwise, plenty of bargain  Tacoma bank owned homes  if you're an investor.


If you're looking for straight answers and a buyer's representative with your best interests in mind, I'm here to help! I'm not out to sell you on something you don't need or can't handle. I'm not an inspector, but with over 150 + inspections under my belt, I've seen most everything...short of crawling under the house :). No punches being pulled here....just straight talk and service over and above! Tom Tuttle.

Hurry...tax credit ends soon! Must be in contract by April 30 and close by June 30, 2010.

253-686-3992 or me@tomtuttle.me

Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.16

Friday, April 9, 2010

Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.9

Click or call Tom Tuttle "from Tacoma" 253-686-3992 me@tomtuttle.me for more information regarding these or any homes in the greater Pierce County, WA area.



25 this week, which is average. This week's bargain Puyallup bank owned home: 16704 75th St E Sumner 98390 listed at 329k and assessed at $435,700. A great deal and a great town! Pictured here. See flyer for more pictures/info.

Signs of spring in the housing market, but you'd never know it from the weater. Yikes...yesterday was bitter cold! Where is that April 60 degree weather? Snowboarding weather?

Pending sales continue, but again no sense of urgency on the buyer side. That being said, the good ones go really, really fast. Everyone is looking for that needle-in-a-hay-stack dream home...can't blame them because there's never been a more opportune time! Many of the ugly ducklings come on and stay on ... reducing their price until they finally sell. There is a huge surplus of ugly ducklings. In fact, enough to fill an island; ' The Island of misfit houses'. Shades of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer with the chorus bouncing along in the background.

Anyway, I digress. You truly have only about 2-3 days before the really good ones receive multiple offers and poof, just like that, they are gone. Sold to the highest bidder with the most cash in his pocket. Yes, the bank is looking for a very well qualified buyer with a large sum to put down, thereby securing their financing and the eventual sale. You see, when there are multiple offers, banks don't pick the most diserving :) My wife entertains me with these notions, all too often. We drive by and view many homes...that's the fun part! When we come across a million dollar dream home, she always comments, "Oh, see that's just not fair. I am a good person. I deserve to have that!" While the latter part is true, the banks don't really care! But, she does deserve that, just not yet :)
Friday Foreclosure Flyer for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, bank owned homes 4.9

Friday, April 2, 2010

Friday Foreclosure List for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup 4.2.10


33 this week, but I turned on a few more taps subsequently adding about 8 or so new this week. So, we are still in the average range. If you know anyone needing advice on short sales vs. foreclosures, please have them contact Tom Tuttle; click or call me@tomtuttle.me 253-686-3992. If you'd like to view any of the previous Friday foreclosure lists for Tacoma foreclosures, you can visit my blog http://www.piercecountyhouses.blogspot.com (copy and paste into the URL). Finally, if you'd like to view any of these bank owned homes, please don't hesitate to click or call. Respectfully....Tom Tuttle from Tacoma, WA

Friday Foreclosure List for Pierce County, WA including Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup 4.2.10

Walk Away from your mortgage? Strategic Default is not for everyone...

Walk Away: Strategic Default
This video posted a few months ago debates the moral and financial dilemma that many homeowners are faced with.Obviously it's not for everyone, but for some...it makes sense. For some, it's the only option. It's simple: if we can bail out corporate America, if executives and CEO's can walk away, then the middle man should do the same, right?

Well, the obvious pitfalls are: destroyed credit & a 3 year foreclosure default on your record. The upside: house-squat and  pocket the money saved until they kick you out...which could be anywhere in the neighborhood of 6 to 18 months; more realistically averaging between 8-12 months. Now, this doesn't make sense if you are concerned with school districts or uprooting your family and disturbing their balance. Additionally, a blow to your credit could make it very difficult to access credit cards, car loans and certainly not a home loan for some time. But if it's your only option ... then upsetting the apple cart could provide a huge savings!


So, why not? If the banks, corporate America, executives and CEO's deserve a bail out...don't you?

Where do you stand??? If you're underwater or need advice on a possible short sale to sell your house, click or call Tom Tuttle me@tomtuttle.me or 253-686-3992