I have seen a number of Las Vegan’s moving out of Las Vegas.  I don’t know what the numbers are but I will tell you that one Sunday I spent an hour at a U-Haul company and 7 different people came in to pick up trucks to move out of this town.  I asked almost every one of them where they were going and why? All of them were moving back to where their families live.  To live with family.  Why?  Because they lost their job/jobs and can not make any money here.  Some of these people were blue collar workers, the rest white collar workers.  They told me they truly had no where else to go, but to go sponge off relatives.

And it’s not cheap renting a truck to move away.  Most of these people were spending an average of $1500 to move.  I don’t think that included the gas/diesel.  And none of them were happy about having to leave Las Vegas. 

The only thing I could honestly share with them is what a older gentlemen told me when I first moved to Las Vegas.  He had asked me where I moved here from?  I told him Iowa and he continued to tell me that ”most everyone that will move out of Las Vegas ends up coming back to live in Las Vegas”.  I found that to be very interesting.  That was 11 years ago that this gentlemen shared that with me.  I could only pass on the message from him to all the people that day who were moving away.

Don’t worry, your next address is out there. A couple of things to consider are knowing what you’re looking for and finding the right REAL ESTATE AGENT in helping you find it.

Your perfect home is waiting for you. I’ll help you find it.

Consider these:

Question: Why should we work with a real estate agent?

Answer: While it is possible for you to do your house hunting on your own by looking through newspaper ads, watching for for sale signs and checking out real estate sites on the Internet,  thats why it’s very important to deal with an experienced Real Estate Agent who is familiar with different neighbourhoods, has special insight on homes listed for sale and is experienced in helping buyers negotiate the best price for the right home.  I can do that for you.  I have 10 years worth of references from past and present clients.

Call me for advice.  Let me know what exact type of home you’re looking for and the area in which you want to live.

Visit my web site http://www.PennysProperties.com for a free search of all properties listed in the MLS for sale.

Answer: Ask yourself the following questions:

How large or small of a home do you need?  Should it have several bedrooms, more than one bathroom, a home office or a two stall garage?

Are you planning on making lifestyle changes in the near future? Will your family be growing? Will your teenagers be moving away soon? Are you an empty nester?  How long will you be planning on staying in the home?

What part of the valley do you want to live in? Do you need an area with public transportation , a school, shopping and parks?  Walking distance to grocery stores? 

Would you like a brand new home or a re-sale?

Question: What are the most important things to look for in a house?

Answer: Beyond the number of how many bedrooms and bathrooms you want , or the size of the backyard, there are other things you need to consider that will have an impact on the total cost of your investment.

Las Vegas doesn’t require a disclosure of energy past bills but it is in the making.  Soon sellers will be required to show power and electric bills to potential buyers.

Las Vegas has a plan to take a National Historic Landmark building, which once was the old courthouse and post office and turn it into a museum that will bring some history and old stories about how the city was run years ago.

The renovation of the historic building in Las Vegas into a museum dedicated to the history of organized crime has begun, it is said to bring in a possible 600,000-800,000 tourists a year.  Not including all the locals that will enjoy this museum It’s to be completed in 2011.

Las Vegas is always blowing up old casinos to make room for new casions and advancement.  This museum will be a part of Vegas that is actually part of the city’s history.  Along with a few other museums we have here..

I feel good about the attraction, I believe it will greatly help our economy.  Also, bringing in new jobs for our housing market.  The more people visit here the more interest there is for many people to own a piece of Las Vegas for a second home.  It’s win, win for everyone.

So this Real Estate business is full of Monkey Business…take the “k” out of monkey and you get money, how strange is that?  You can take that in a number of ways.  You can consider it funny in the way that things are changing on a daily basis and you have to go with the flow when it comes to financing for a property.  You can look at some other agents and wonder how in the world they get clients and make money.  It’s funny how some agents “know it all” and really don’t.  There’s some agents out there that truly are so out spoken that you just can’t tell them they’re full of it because you’re laughing too hard inside.

I compare it to the movies “Monkey Business with Cary Grant and Ginger Rodgers a 1952 movie.  Or the movie “Monkey Business with the Marx brothers of 1931..  Two really great movies with great actors and lots of comedy.  I don’t believe there’s been a movie made called Money Business, and if there was it probably wasn’t a comedy.

I’ve noticed that several vacant homes I’ve viewed lately have had angels left behind.  Either in the form of a statue in the bachyard, a waterfall, little staute angels left on kitchen counter tops or pictures, books of angels or angels painted on the wall. 

In my opinion people must be leaving them behind intentionally.  People leave all kinds of things behind.  Some things I’ve seen are furniture, personal family pictures, at least they look like family pictures.  Wedding books, scrap books of babys and toddlers all the way to their teenage years.  Treasure chests full of memories.  Kids and adults clothing.  Closets full of sheets and towels.  Many times I see numberous cleaning supplies and bug/weed sprays. 

After researching angels on the internet and understanding a liitle more, perhaps they are left behind to fight off the demons.

With the very low intenvory of foreclousres out on the market, the possiblity of Las Vegas agents successing at getting an offer accepted is extremely low.

On the contrary the general public listening to the news whether it’s the local stations or world wide news,  what they hear on the radio or from co-works and other friends and framily.  They are under the impression that there are so many foreclosures out there they should be able to get a steal of a deal with no problem.

Well, like I said there are several reasons why buyers and Real Estate agents can’t get an offer accepted.  For example: there may be as many as over 40 offers on just one property.  Some agents are writing offers on over 40 properties before they finally get their offer accepted.  The second and very difficult issue for buyings to understand is that most of the offers coming in will be cash offers.  Which of course that is what the selling bank perfers. No additional costs to them and they can close quickly. 

The frustration I hear is from agents that call me and ask, do you have any offers on the property?  How many do you have?  Is is worth my client and I putting in an offer? Can we put in a back up offer?  Do you have cash offers.

If a property has cash offers than almost everytime cash buyers win the bid and people retaining any kind of a loan is out of the running.  Which is very sad for the first time home buyers who require FHA loan, or the Vet. who would like to get a VA loan. Or even conventional loans.  None of these loans can compete against cash.

During the late part of 2008 the Division published its first textbook on Nevada real estate law.  Called the Nevada Las and Reference Guide.  It’s an educational resource for education providers and it may be used and should be used by licensees on special topics that may occur.  It is available online for the use in continuing ed courses and a reference source.