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Your Castle continues to lead the industry in free, informative real estate education. We have a wide variety of classes on subjects like Denver Metro Real Estate Trends, First Time Home Buying, How to Invest in Denver Real Estate, Improve Your FICO Score, Home and Investment Driving Tours, Investing in Your IRA, and much, much more! Our classes are always free of charge and we NEVER sell anything – we just like to talk about real estate! To see our whole training schedule, call me and I’ll send you one email a week with our upcoming training calendar.

THANKS!
Brooke Hengst
REALTOR, CDPE
Your Castle Real Estate
p:  (720) 988-5952
bhengst1@gmail.com
www.brookehengst.com

Anybody else as excited about their business in 2012 as I am?!?!?  I SURE HOPE SO!! 

Top 5 Reasons I am EXCITED ABOUT REAL ESTATE IN 2012!

- RATES ARE STILL LOW!
For all those buyers that have "thinking" about buying and weren't sure - LOOK AT THE RATES!  If you can buy - BUY SOMETHING! 

- SPOTLIGHT IS ON LISTINGS
In the Denver Metro area, our inventory is at an ALL TIME LOW!  If you are an appealing listing and are priced right - YOU WILL SELL!  We need more listings out there so I buyers have more of a selection, so what are you waiting for, call me to LIST so you can get into YOUR NEXT HOME!

- INVESTOR OPPORTUNITIES ARE STILL THERE
There are still some great opportunities out there to buy a home, rent it out and have CASH FLOW every month!  I have also have clients do fix-n-flips and those deals are still there too!  There are thousands of people out there looking for rentals. 

- I LOVE HELPING PEOPLE!
This is my favorite part of my job!!  Helping people achieve their goals in real estate is AWESOME!  Whether they are buying, selling or investing - I help them get the job done in a low-stress fashion! 

- I LOVE MY JOB!
EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF IT!  I am super excited for every year and tend to get more and more excited as they fly by! 


Brooke Hengst
REALTOR, CDPE, The Elite Group
Your Castle Real Estate
p: (720) 988-5952
bhengst1@gmail.com
www.brookehengst.com

My goal for December is to re-connect with EVERY SINGLE PERSON in my database!!!!  Whether this is someone I am close to or something who just came to me via a simple question over the phone, there is so much value in re-connecting!! 

I feel so incredibly grateful for all of my contacts, personal friends, professional connections, clients and all of those who cross my path in life and why not take some time to tell them this. 

As a Realtor, I feel like we sometimes feel that we do not have value in what we do.  My thought is that even if I am not working with someone to help them sell or purchase a home, I still have value in educating people about our current market statistics as well as offering people information about their home and local market. 

Anybody else with me in making this goal??!? 

Best of luck to you all in 2012!!

WAHOO!!

Another tool from Shea Mortgage is now out there to help our buyers!!  Shea Mortgage now has access to the FANNIE MAE HOMEPATH MORTGAGE FNMA HOMEPATH MORTGAGE is special financing for certain Fannie Mae owned properties.

See available properties at http://www.homepath.com/

Highlights include:
3% down for owner occupied properties.
NO MORTGAGE INSURANCE!!
10% down for investor and second home properties.
NO MORTGAGE INSURANCE!!
NO APPRAISAL NEEDED
no inspection needed
no Condo questionnaire needed
45% Debt to income ratio possibly up to 50%.

Fixed rate or 3/1, 5/1, 7/1, 10/1 loans available. Competitive rates.

Contact me for more information and I’ll be happy to put you in touch with Jon Karuschkat of Shea Mortgage.

9 ways agents should be using Google - This article covers nine Google products for real estate agents.  Here's a sample:
- Google Maps

 - Make your listings easier for homebuyers and real estate agents to find 
- Submit your listings to Google Base - Broaden your distribution and receive free traffic and leads 
- Google Earth - Give clients the power of three-dimensional satellite imagery with Google Earth Pro
- List your business on Google Places - Over one-third of people looking for real estate information on Google are searching for agents or brokers - Access instant messaging, sharable calendars, tools for sharing and collaborating on documents and spreadsheets, and even collaborative wikis
See the full article to learn about all nine products:
http://www.inman.com/news/2010/08/11/9-ways-agents-should-be-using-google