Skip to content
This blog is part of the Empower Network, rebuilt and running. Start free →|Wrote this blog? Restore your courses

Charles Fitzgerald Butler

A working estate agent writing about his own market is a rare thing on this platform, and Charles Fitzgerald Butler produced dozens of posts on one corner of southern California. The advice is specific to that market and the thinking transfers anywhere.

He is best on the parts people get wrong. Why a foreclosure is not automatically a bargain, and how to judge one the way an investor would. What the final walk through is actually for and what it protects you from. Why negotiating on a bank owned property takes patience most buyers do not have.

Sellers get equal attention, on preparing a house for a virtual tour, on keeping maintenance ahead of a sale, and on the safety precautions an open house needs.

He also covers buying for a blended family, which nobody else writes about.

If you are buying or selling anywhere, read the foreclosure and walk through posts. The market is local and the method is not.

When Luxury Homes in South Bay Attract a Crowd…

Oct 22, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
Luxury Homes and the South Bay Like most other parts of the real estate market, luxury homes in the South Bay are expected to show a rise in demand going forward. Certain…
Read the post →

Bank Owned Home Negotiating Takes Experience, Patience

Oct 20, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
South Bay Bank Owned Home August RealtyTrac foreclosure roundup showed that for the first time in a while foreclosure activity across the nation was on the increase. Largely due to an 11%…
Read the post →

National Mortgage Rates Up But Purchases Still Climbing!

Oct 17, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
Mortgage Rates Rise For South Bay homeowners and soon-to-be homeowners, it looks like the end for deeply depressed “mortgage rates”. Nationally, rising rates have temporarily created a downdraft in home loan applications.…
Read the post →

One Liners To Make Selling Your Home Happen

Oct 14, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
Selling Your Home If you’re thinking of selling your home in this summer, you’re likely to have already considered different approaches to making it stand out from other properties. Will you repaint…
Read the post →

High Tech and High Touch: Do You Have a PBA?

Oct 13, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
You Need a PBA In the world of online business and internet marketing you are high-tech in everything you do. Experienced entrepreneurs have most of their business run on automation. From the…
Read the post →

De-Stressing the Move to a South Bay New Home

Oct 13, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
New Home Moves The Census Bureau tells us that 43 million people move households each year. That definitely makes it a Big Business opportunity! You would think that huge commercial empires would…
Read the post →

Getting a Mortgage 101: Real Forehead-Slappers

Oct 7, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
Getting a Mortgage 101 Homer Simpson smacks himself in the forehead every time he says it: D’Oh!!! When it comes to knowing how mortgage basics have shifted in today’s changing banking environment,…
Read the post →

Final Walk Through: Protection When Buying a Home

Oct 7, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
Finally the Final Walk Through After weeks of dealing with inspections, appraisals, repairs, and the sheaf of paperwork created by your mortgage company. The Final Walk Through should come as a welcome…
Read the post →

Rising South Bay Home Prices Needn’t Cause Sleepless Nights

Oct 5, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
South Bay Home Prices As South Bay home prices continue to rise sooner or later people begin to wonder whether we’ve crossed the threshold dividing undervalued from overvalued. Pundit shorthand for “overvalued”…
Read the post →

Home Selling Process Always Shares Basic Precepts

Oct 5, 2013 · Charles Fitzgerald Butler
Home Selling Basics South Bay home selling is not so different from home selling in any other desirable community: the nearly universal underpinnings haven’t changed through the years. So when a homeowner…
Read the post →
Partner ProgramShare Empower Network. Partners earn 30% on referred sales — free to join, no purchase required.
Become a partner free →