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Ted Answers Trulia Voices

• Simi Valley Earthquake Fault Line September 3, 2010
  Answer by Ted Mackel: Wendy, In May, I was a guest on the Cindy Dole Home Wizards Show in Studio at KFWB News Radio in Los Angeles. The program was on earthquake safety, and remembering the 1994 Northridge Quake. When you enter into a purchase agreement on a property the seller must give you an NHD report. I am not a fan of the Property ID report as they do […]
• My Broker is telling me that I have to pay the escrow deposit NOW, even though the Short Sale Agreem. states otherwise. What to do? August 25, 2010
  Answer by Ted Mackel: Contraclaustro13, Great Question, this requires a pretty detailed answer. I created a Video Screencast with the California Short Sale Addendum for you. It may answer some of your questions. Link to video answer: http://bit.ly/aDrVop If the agent used the Short Sale Addendum (and they should have), then if the box under B.2 was checked t […]
• Is there a way to search properties sold by cash? July 26, 2010
  Answer by Ted Mackel: Gil, I do it all the time. In Rapattoni I do a quick search for all of Simi Valley solds between the time frames I am looking at. I export the report out as a CSV file with the export function and open the report in Excel - well numbers on my MAC. You can uses the data base function to sort the report far better than Rapattoni. Two thin […]
• Can you give me directions to this location? July 25, 2010
  Answer by Ted Mackel: The listing says it expired in April and was a Short Sale. ForeclosureRadar says is was foreclosed on in February so we have two conflicting records. It is an IndyMac loan. Are you having trouble with mapquest or Google maps? […]
• Question removed July 21, 2010
  Answer by Ted Mackel: Homebuyer, This is an interesting question. One thought may be that since the fire hydrant is visible that disclosure of vehicle code is probably not a responsibility of the seller. Now if the house was near a school and every morning and afternoon when parents dropped off their children, the parking in front of the house was impacted, […]