Forrest’s Blog

Anyone who has kept up with my monthly Las Vegas Market updates realize that we remain in a maket with seriously over-priced residential resale homes.  Most sellers still do NOT understand that they must be willing to compete with bank-owned REO listing in their own neighborhood as well as comparable homes in subdivisions all over [...]

Reminder: Daylight Savings Time - March 9th! We have seen a considerable increase in buyer activity this past two months.  Daylight savings time couldn’t come at a better time.  This is a real opportunity to conduct extended open houses and connect with those buyers.  Also, consider Friday afternoon open houses that go until dark.  I am [...]

Did you caucus last month? If not . . . you missed one of the most interesting days in recent Nevada history!  The utter lack of organization was actually refreshing as groups of neighbors came together to exercise one of their more profound voting rights.  It was truly memorable . . . and I’m certain [...]

 The race to the final December 2007 closings certainly lacked the enthusiasm generated by Kinky Friedman’s run for Governor of Texas in 2006.  Both ended up about the same way . . . failing to excite anyone with results.  But Kinky at least, had the distinction of being the first independent in 154 years to [...]

Let’s begin with some good news!  However, that will have to wait until we congratulate Lee Barrett on becoming a certified CRS instructor on his first attempt during the NAR Convention last month.  Congrats Lee!! 
Now for the good news! First, the single family residential (SFR) resale closing numbers for November are pretty much on par with [...]