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	<title>Michael Saunders Real Estate Blog &#187; foreclosures</title>
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		<title>The Neighborhood Report – Bird Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Butzko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considered the jewel of Sarasota Bay, Bird Key is perfectly located in the middle of Sarasota Bay between St Armands Circle/Lido Key Beach and downtown Sarasota. ]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken or Egg?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the classic conundrum involving which came first, the chicken or the egg, here’s a question that never fails to ignite debate at cocktail parties everywhere:
  
	Which matters more when selling a home?  The agent you select to help you	accomplish the feat; or the company he or she works for?  
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		<title>Taming the Beast</title>
		<link>http://www.thesaundersblog.com/taming-the-beast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[charlotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The road to recovery for Southwest Florida’s real estate market has been long and arduous; fraught with an overabundance of properties for sale—many of them short sales and foreclosures.  Yet following a winter in which sales of correctly-priced homes sizzled, even the most skeptical market watchers are trading die-hard pessimism for a healthy dose of informed optimism.]]></description>
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		<title>To Buy, Or Not To Buy (with apologies to WM. Shakespeare)</title>
		<link>http://www.thesaundersblog.com/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-with-apologies-to-wm-shakespeare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarasota Herald Tribune Op-Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first time homebuyer tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homebuyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Saunders & Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Sales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With last weekend’s official beginning of Spring, the traditional high season for home sales also got underway.  Yet with the nation’s housing market behaving most untraditionally over the past few years, many would-be buyers are understandably scratching their heads, wondering if the right time to buy is now.]]></description>
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		<title>The New Normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[first-time homebuyer credit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across virtually every segment of the economy, 2009 sputtered-in as miserably as 2008 sputtered-out.  Yet in spite of its many challenges, the past year showed that it’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.  For if the experiences of 2009 taught us nothing else, we learned that true professionals united in common cause can truly make good things happen.]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery By Extension</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarasota Herald Tribune Op-Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Dodd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Governor Charlie Crist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Zandi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senator Bill Nelson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tax credit has been so effective in stimulating sales and stabilizing home prices that continuing it seems like a no-brainer in light of a housing market that still exhibits contradictory signs of recovery.  Secondly, a significant new wave of foreclosures is in the pipeline that could easily undo much of the progress that has been made toward reducing inventory and firming-up prices.  One of the key benefits of the tax credit is that it ignited a firestorm of sales that has helped shore-up home prices in spite of the unprecedented number of foreclosures and short sales.

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		<title>The Two-Minute Warning</title>
		<link>http://www.thesaundersblog.com/the-two-minute-warning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarasota Herald Tribune Op-Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first time buyer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thesaundersblog.com/?p=1486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard to believe, but only two months remain before the November 30th deadline for earning the First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit.  While that may still seem like quite a ways off, if you’re planning to join the 1.4 million American families who have already taken advantage of this popular incentive—but have yet to zero-in on a property—you may very well find yourself in a sprint to get your purchase in under the wire. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fuzzy Math</title>
		<link>http://www.thesaundersblog.com/fuzzy-math/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarasota Herald Tribune Op-Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diamond Homes of Englewood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Henry Fishkind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judith Smeltzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lakewood ranch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manatee County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new homes sales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nationwide, sales of existing homes were up in July for the fourth straight month, freeing many of these would-be buyers from our northern feeder markets to actively pursue their goal of owning homes in Southwest Florida. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Faces of Foreclosure</title>
		<link>http://www.thesaundersblog.com/the-faces-of-foreclosure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarasota Herald Tribune Op-Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Time Homebuyers’ Tax Credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope for Homeowners]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thesaundersblog.com/?p=1181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[fter noting all the recent snippets of good news about the economy apparently inching its way toward recovery, one is almost tempted to chill the glasses and ice the champagne.  Having ridden the doom and gloom express for more than a year, the media is suddenly the good news bandwagon; positively tripping over each other to report all the positive developments on the economic front. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Back Against Foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Saunders &#38; Company</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sarasota Herald Tribune Op-Ed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarasota County]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It will come as news to virtually no one that home foreclosures are among the most challenging and heartbreaking problems facing Sarasota County families as they struggle through one of the worst economic meltdowns in our nation’s history.  What largely began as a problem affecting investors and homeowners—who could no longer afford the sub-prime mortgages that were so freely and irresponsibly parceled out during the boom—has morphed into a much more all-encompassing crisis.  Today a lost job—or even a temporary layoff—can be the final straw that pushes responsible homeowners to the brink of having to surrender their homes.]]></description>
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