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About Tim Freund

Tim Freund has been a licensed real estate agent/broker since 1990. He spent 14 years as a new home sales rep, ran his own boutique resale brokerage for 5 years and is currently an Estates Director for Dilbeck Estates/Christie's International Estates in Westlake Village, Ca. Tim is a Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), an Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR), a Corporate Mobilty Specialist (CMS) and a Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES). Tim has successfully negotiated a loan modification for a client and has been a professional short sale negotiator. Tim sells along the Los Angeles and Ventura County lines, “from LA to Ventura..”. Tim has been married 31 years, has 2 children, is a native Californian and has been a resident of the Conejo Valley since 1991.

The Short Sale Effect vs. The Short Sale Dilemma

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Tim Freund

Selling short sale properties is a reality most Realtors have come to accept.  This past week I received an offer on a short sale listing, where my seller had already tried to modify their loan but had been declined.  In … Continue reading →

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Pending Home Sales And The Lessons of Rocky And Bullwinkle

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Tim Freund

The Pending home sales for December came out today and rosy is almost all you can say about them – not that you’ll find that in the headlines which read, “Pending Home Sales Down For December”, none the less, the … Continue reading →

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How Will We Be Remembered?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Tim Freund

So what’s a Realtor writing about ho,w we should be remembered?  Hey, everyone’s got an opinion right?  But seriously, I was watching ESPN tonight as players and people from State College were remembering Joe Paterno.  To put this in some … Continue reading →

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Change Is Gonna Come

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Tim Freund

This week we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King and with his memory as a backdrop I’m reminded of what in 1963 recording artist Sam Cooke wrote in response to the rising tide of a nation tired of racial inequality, “It’s … Continue reading →

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Ben Bernake Hits For The Cycle!

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Tim Freund

A baseball term?  Bernanke in a baseball uniform?  Not exactly the image most of us have of our Federal Reserve Chairman.  A few months ago, I criticized Chairman Ben Bernanke for announcing that rates would stay low to 2013.  I … Continue reading →

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Pending Housing up Again! How Rosy Will 2012 Be?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Tim Freund

Well that all depends.  The Rosy-ness depends on Congress not blowing it again; it depends on the election dialog and most importantly it depends on Jobs. The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Index posted another month of improvement and … Continue reading →

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Ho-Hum Case-Shiller…

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Tim Freund

As kids are often quoted, “Bor-ing…”  It’s the last Tuesday of the month and Case-Shiller posted the numbers from November.  No surprises; prices down, sales up; blah, blah, blah. When I was selling homes during the 1990’s and buyer’s were … Continue reading →

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All I Want For Xmas Is…

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Tim Freund

All I want for Christmas is my two par-tees, my two par-tees, my two par-tees, all I want for Christmas is my two par-tees, so we can have a merry Christmas.  So the song goes… sort of…  No I’m not … Continue reading →

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No More Messing Around

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Tim Freund

If you are behind in your payments and you live in California, you better contact your bank and discuss your options and you need to do so quickly.  In all likelihood you’ll need to hire a Realtor to get your … Continue reading →

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Case-Shiller: Predictably Not Great, But…

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Tim Freund

As I’ve been saying since the Government’s near shut down in July/August, America’s home buying confidence has been shaken.  The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Index has been pointing to a decline in price and sales for months.  Yesterday’s … Continue reading →

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