Easy Access to Free Pre-foreclose, Bank Owned, Aution Homes

As of March 2009, MetroList provides free information to Realtors on Foreclose Homes / Bank Owned Homes / Aution Homes.

In the Realist section, realtors can now search preforclose, bank owned, and aution homes.

Information provided include home address, subdivision, notice of default date / date of trustee's sale, other property details, and many other real estate loan information.

Based on my search on 4/2/09, the number of preforeclosures in Modesto is listed at 1000 (limit of each search reached). In reality, there are more than 1000 homes in this category.

Real estate search results (Preforecluse Homes) in various Modesto CA zip codes:

• 95358 - 205 Modesto CA homes in preforeclosure
• 95357 - 73 Modesto real estate in preforeclosure
• 95356 - 183 Modesto properties in preforeclosure
• 95355 - 363 Modesto preforeclose real estate
• 95354 - 180 real estate homes in preforeclose
• 95352 - 2 preforeclose Modesto CA homes
• 95350 - 293 homes in preforeclosure

Search results (Bank Owned Homes) in various Modesto CA zip codes. The search results list the REO sale date.

• 95358 - 291 are bank owned Modesto homes
• 95357 - 74 homes are bank owned real estate
• 95356 - 177 homes are bank owned properties
• 95355 - 343 Modesto CA bank owned homes
• 95354 - 219 Modesto homes are bank owned
• 95351 - 400 bank owned real estate in Modesto
• 95350 - 294 Modesto CA bank owned properties

Search results (Auction Homes) in Modesto. The search listed date of Notice of Trustee's sale and other property information.

• 856 Auction homes in Modesto

Searches are available for other counties (about 51 of them) and other zip codes in Northern CA.

Disclaimer: information are from Metrolist MLS search. It has not been verified. Please rely on your research if there are discrepancies.

New Phone DARE | Love the Navigator

I got a new phone yesteray, the Verizon's LG Dare. I had been waiting to get an iPhone once my Verizon plan expires. My family and I were shopping at Stanford Shopping Center and after stopping at the Verizon booth and talked with the sales person, we ended up with the new DARE media phone.

The new feature on the phone, the Navigator, is really fun. It uses GPS navigation. I can find my current location using 'Maps & Traffic' / 'Where Am I?' options on the phone. At the time, the Verizon booth was near Starbucks Coffee in the Stanford Shopping Center and the phone displayed the address.

I tried the phone's different options which include: 'Send Place MSG' / 'Add to Favorites...'. I can have the Navigator send my location to a recipient and in turn guide the recipient to my location.

I also tried a few options like 'Traffic', 'Weather' and played with the navigator to set the destination to my home address on the way back home. I was impressed by the GPS guidance system.

My first 'Favorites' locations added to the new phone:

• Stanford Shopping Center
  
• Just Koi Chinese Restaurant 4264 Dublin Blvd., Dublin CA 94568
• Home - Sweet Home

I was looking at other options on the phone and I believe users can choose 'Spanish' in addition to 'English' for the voice guidance and can also select a different 'Voice Type' such as 'Michelle', 'David', 'Emily', 'Jennifer', 'Andew' in the 'Navigation Preferences' settings.

I haven't tried other features on the phone such as voice recognition, the 3.2-megapixel camera, or the video yet but I know I am keeping the VZ Navigator feature.

One other thing to mention: the sales people (2 brothers) were really helpful. They transfered all the info from my old phone to the new phone and also added a memory card to the new phones.

The only thing missing, the capability to use the phone as a realtor lockbox key, which some other phones can provide. I am waiting for Verizon to support that feature.

For more information on the phone, see the article 'iPhone, Instinct, Meet Verizon's Dare'.

MetroList Expanded Access

As of Feb 2009, MetroList subscribers can access, search, and enter listings into MLSListings which covers San Mateo real estate, Santa Clara real estate, Santa Cruz real estate, Monterey real estate, and San Benito. MetroList is a participant in the California MLSAlliance.

In addition, searches now include Preforeclose homes, Auction homes, and Bank Owned homes in 51 Northern California counties.

Internet Absence - Explained | Modesto Realtor Obligations

Spent the last 5 months catching up on billing insurances for my husband's Pain Management practice after terminating the outside billing company's contract.

Just caught up on insurance aging for Jan-Sept 2008 and even call on bills in 2007 that had not been paid! The outside billing company sent out first billings, which is the easy part of the job. There were no balance billing, nor rebilling unpaid office visits and medical procedures! Even ended up with a lot of data corruption in Lytec.

Also researched Electronic Medical Records/EMR, EHR tools:

- AI Med from Acrendo: www.acrendo.com
- eClinicalWorks: www.eclinicalworks.com
- LeonardoMD: www.leonardomd.com (web-based)
- AdvancedMD: www.advancedmd.com (web-based)
- iMedica: www.imedica.com
- Lytec: www.lytec.com

Too many hours spent looking at demos. Priced out of eClinicalWorks and iMedica. I had a hard time navigating thru' the task scenarios using the EMRs, found them confusing...

Got an email last week from National Association of Realtors, requesting me to stop using the domain name www.modesto-realtor.com for my real estate website due to trademark issues. Thus, I have to change focus... back to real estate... internet presence once again...

New to-do list:
- Have my brother add the new domain name. He is my website administrator and he does that for me for free. I have a cheap website (cost me nothing to write it myself).
- Use Google Webmaster Tools to add new domain name, verify site, generate site map, track crawl stats, etc.
- Research real estate SEO Modesto keywords using Google Adwords.
- Use Google Analytics to track results.

My hobby and passion: real estate investments, website development, the SEO Modesto game.

My obligation: medical practice management, billing insurances.

My goal: To delegate insurance billing tasks and set the medical practice on auto-pilot (a dream that had not yet come true and may never be, sigh!)

Announcement: Medical Insurance Billing Job Opening in Pain Management Clinic Modesto. email resume to HiredModesto@comcast.net.

Practice Pointers: Outsource billing? Here's how - - Modern

Article on medical billing outsourcing and what to look out for when selecting / monitoring an outside medical billing service.

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California Day Trip - Mission Santa Clara de Asis

Mission Santa Clara de Asis is the eighth mission of the original 21 California missions. It was established by Father Junipero Serra in 1777. The only mission named after a woman, Clare of Assisi, the historic California mission is now located in Santa Clara University at:

500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050

Total travel distance from Modesto CA to the mission is about 82 miles and takes about 1.5 hours.


More pictures from the day trip is on the Modesto real estate agent's California day trips webpage. The visit to the mission and the pictures were taken in April 2008 as part of my child's fourth grade California Missions project for the Social Studies course.

To find out more about the mission (or to be as smart as a fourth grader in California mission history), please also visit: wikipedia,
Santa Clara University Mission Church History.

Modesto real estate agent is now ready for fifth grade projects, ready to travel and make more day trips / field trips to be smarter than a fifth grader...

Selling Modesto CA Real Estate - St. Joseph Statue Article

I just received a newsletter from my local association of realtors. There is an interesting article about St. Joseph statues:

"According to a new National opinion poll, nearly one-third of American adults (63.2 million people) would consider asking their real estate agent to bury a four-inch statue of St. Joseph in the front yard to help sell their home in today’s sluggish economy.
Of those 63.2 million people, 23.5 million would “absolutely want their agent” to use the symbolic figure to increase the likelihood of selling their property. The kits include a free home listing at www.StJosephStatue.com, where St. Joseph believers have listed for sale more that $2.4 billion in real estate.
The tradition of buying St. Joseph in the earth began hundreds of years ago in Spain, when Sister Teresa of needed land to build convents. She prayed to St. Joseph (the patron saint of the family and household needs) and buried a St. Joseph medal in the ground. The medals evolved into statues, which thousands of home sellers and real estate agents across the country now use as they seek a little “divine intervention” when selling residential real estate."

The article is from the Lodi Association of Realtors.

I would be more than happy to assist my sellers in any way that helps. I believe different cultures have different traditions, and in Chinese culture, there is feng shui...