Tony & Darcy - The C Team's Blog

Hello again, well we have almost gotten dug out from the latest storm to hit here.  Nice to have the moisture could have done without the wind, but it does mean great snow for winter recreation!  We are supposed to have some more later tonight, with smaller totals as storms that are smaller come through.  That usually means that when the weathermen say this, we get dumped on!  Like I mentioned earlier, we could always use the moisture, anyway back to Real Estate.

The market is doing well, we have had some great starter homes come on the market in the past couple of days.  Great locations and prices!  We still have some great move up and executive homes on the market as well as the starter homes.  Don't let the snow scare you!  Things will start to warm up in the next couple of weeks.  Springtime here in Cedar City is really gorgeous!  Call the C Team for any of your Real Estate needs!

I have talked to several Realtors and read a few blogs about their concerns for the the homeowners protection doing a Virtual Tour.  I am saddened by the need for these concerns, it speaks poorly of our society.  I am also saddened because I believe that Virtual Tours are a great marketing tool.  In many cases, they help draw interest in a listing.  I wonder if we, as the listing agents, are doing our clients right by not teaching them to protect themselves.

I think that we do our clients a disservice when we don't teach them to put all valuables away in a safe storage facility.  I know that can become inconvenient, but we're not Homeland Security, we only can qualify them to buy the property, not do a criminal background.  It is in the clients interest to protect themselves as best they can.  I think that it is prudent to advise them when a Virtual Tour is being shot, they need to "depersonalize," and part of that, put away your valuables, as well as photographs that someone could use to harm members of their families. 

It is sad that we have to do this, but we are the professional, we need to teach our clients to be safe.  I really do believe that Virtual Tours and lots of photograpsh are essential in the sales process of properties, especially with the use of the Inernet.  I also believe that we get paid to educate and protect our clients. 

Great news!  Governor Huntsman in his State of the State address mentioned that the economy in Utah is flourishing!  This comes from a Governor that was a businessman prior to becoming a politician!  That is good news! 

We are turning the corner on Winter and heading towards Spring, which always makes me feel good.  The annual rebirth of life in all of it's miraculous splendor, reminds me of my place in the world.  That being said, there is still a lot of snow available for Winter fun, whether it is skiing, snowmobiling or just viewing!  We generally receive a lot of "late season" snowfall in the mountains, so those activities could go on for months yet.

We are still a little cold, but that is to be expected in January at our elevation 5300 feet above sea level, and our geographic location.  There have been some great new listings come on to the market within the past few days, and the inventory is still good.  The interest rate reductions have helped lower the rates back to near historic lows, so what are you waiting for?  Get in and find your dream house while the gettin' is good and there are a lot of choices!  There are also some great investment vehicles such as apartments if that is your niche.  Darcy and I would love to earn your business, by taking as much of the hassle out of your purchase or sale as possible! 

Come up and see us, if you can't, check out our web site and let us send you more information about any listing that you find on it!  Have a great rest of the week!

Well, the week is into full swing, and I have spent parts of two days trying to get my computer fixed.  It never fails, just when things seem to be improving, something else gets in the way.  My laptop has been infected with a virus.  We spent nearly an entire day getting the anti virus program to run through all of my programs to make sure that we had everything isolated and removed that was infected.  What a pain! 

It worked great for a while then BOOM there it was again this afternoon, so another several hours spent running through the programs cleaning things out and getting rid of them.  It isn't real productive time, worse, it is probably faster for Darcy to clean up my computer than it is to run to the repair guy, pay him, and wait for him to be done.  I left it shut down after Darcy had it cleaned up this last time.  I am using a desk top computer to write with.

The point to my blog is that it is annoying that some talented, yet misguided @#$hole has nothing better nor more productive to do that design these viruses and worms then use them to infect and ruin other people's computers.  In a perfect world, the governments around the world would make these programmers replace every computer that their "creation" infects.  In a just and perfect world, they would also have to reimburse everyone for time and business lost.  It will never happen, but I think that it would only need to happen once or twice and the rest of these idiots would get the message. 

Anyway other than that, it looks to be a great time to be in Real Estate!  With the stock market suffering, maybe more of the long term investors will realize what many of us have been saying, It's a great time to buy Real Estate!

Well, the Christmas decorations and light are all down, but the views here are still nice.  We have had some snow, so the ski resort is happy, and so are the skiers.  It is kind of the inbetween time of year, the early excitement for the snow has dissapated, and spring is still a couple of months away, yet it is still beautiful.  We have around 300 days of sunshine each year, so even this time of year the sun is still out and beautiful, although the past couple of days, we have wondered if the sun is just a mirage, all view no heat!

Our inventory of homes is still good, in all ranges and sizes!  We have some great investment properties available.  Now is a great time to get out of the stock market and into the real estate market!  Keep that in mind as you sit down with your tax advisors.  There are a lot of write offs available to real estate that aren't available in other investment markets.  Just some thoughts as winter wears on.  Come up and see us, and please bring your coat!