Ramblings....
Chris Lengquist - Monday, March 2, 2009
...our charting boards at our Keller Williams Realty office in Olathe had twice as many entries on the sales board as the listings board. Is this just a spring bounce or are we beginning to clear off some inventory?
...the Kansas Jayhawks have just beaten Missouri to a pulp to avenge an earlier league loss to them. That puts the Jayhawks on the cusp of winning their fifth Big 12 title in a row...9 of the last 13. Amazing.
...right now I'm working with a lot more "regular" home buyers than I am with investors. It's been a trend over the last six months. With investor financing comparatively more expensive and difficult to come by it just makes sense. Now, a couple of the regular home buyers are combining some sort of the Buy & Live real estate investing strategies I've advocated for years. So that's smart thinking on their part.
...rents seem to be holding up in most of Kansas City. Where I see a definite softness is in the real low income properties and on the outskirts of Kansas City. Blue Springs, which I've loved for years, has had a movement to "soft" and I'm no longer thrilled about it. Though it's still not a bad place to be.
...here in the Kansas City real estate market we are holding up pretty well. But advantage still goes to the buyer in much of the area.
...why do some real estate agents give up so much information about their clients?