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Welcome and thank you for visiting my nformation page. 90% of my business is referred to me by my clients, friends and family members. This means that the high level of service I provide, motivates people to tell their friends about the how I have helped them.
I am dedicated to earning your trust and respect long before I ask for your business. I work with a wide range of clients and especially like to work with first time buyers and first time sellers.
If you are looking for a trusted real estate advisor and are tired of being treated like this month's closing transaction for some salesman, then I am your agent!
I am a 3rd generation southern California native. My wife Cathy and I are Simi Valley residents and have 4 wonderful children. My local knowledge and experience as a family man creates a strong ally for your real estate needs. I would love to make you a part of my client appreciation program, call or send an email today.
All the Best
Ted Mackel
References and resume available upon request
I am dedicated to earning your trust and respect long before I ask for your business. I work with a wide range of clients and especially like to work with first time buyers and first time sellers.
If you are looking for a trusted real estate advisor and are tired of being treated like this month's closing transaction for some salesman, then I am your agent!
I am a 3rd generation southern California native. My wife Cathy and I are Simi Valley residents and have 4 wonderful children. My local knowledge and experience as a family man creates a strong ally for your real estate needs. I would love to make you a part of my client appreciation program, call or send an email today.
All the Best
Ted Mackel
References and resume available upon request
Testimonials
"Hi, Ted,
Belatedly, I'm writing to thank you for the bottle of wine you gave us for Christmas. We were gone over the Christmas holiday, and then came down with the two-week bug that seems to be going around, so by the time I was back on my feet a few things had slipped through the cracks. When I got your card last week I remembered that I owed you a thank-you note for a fine bottle of wine.Congratulations on your impressive sales production for 2007 and being elected Treasurer of the Simi Valley/Moorpark Association of Realtors.
I trust the current situation in the housing and mortgage markets isn't hitting you too hard. I know that if anybody is prepared to
weather a down market it's you with your persistence, hard work and smart marketing. It must have been God's plan that you kept showing up and building a relationship with us so that we knew where to turn when we finally got ready to sell. If not for that, we would have dithered about for just long enough to have been caught in the current stagnation and downward price spiral. We have been so fortunate!
I hope all is well with your family. We're fine and we like living at Villa del Arroyo with the possums, rabbits, raccoons and strange birds
that sing in the dark. Well...the jury's still out on the raccoons. I surprised a large one after midnight the other night, trying to rip open the screen door to our porch (we've had it enclosed). I think it was going for the cat food. The cheeky devil ambled off pretty casually when I shouted at it. We continue to excavate boxes, trying to whittle down the quantity of stuff in the house. I'm still working full-time and not too energetic when I get home at night so it's taking longer that I had imagined to get this place squared away. When you have the time I've love for you to introduce us to the friends you mentioned who live here at Villa del Arroyo. I'm sure it will make me green with envy to see what our house could look like given enough time and money!
John and I wish you continued success, peace and good health in 2008.
Be assured that if the opportunity arises we will recommend and refer you.
Fran"
Client Sat Mar 1
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Ted Mackel answered:
Jennifer,
Prices in Simi Valley have fallen 20% since January. More specifically 85% of every single family detached home sold this year has been below $550,000. Two weeks ago that number was $585,000. Homes have fallen as much as 30% and more in some of the Simi tracts. I would not let short sales keep you from looking online right now.
Between, Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and many other sites, you can monitor the active listings on your own with no pressure. If you need more specific local information you can set an RSS feed from my blog to your Reader. I blog on Simi market conditions and sales at least twice a month. I also blog on local issues important to home owners in Simi & Moorpark On my older website, I have scans of floorplans to many of the tracts that are probably in your price range.
If you go to my blog in the link below, there are links on the right hand side of the page to my old website and my activerain.com blog. Check in every once in a while as I will be soon starting up 30 minute live podcasts on ustream.tv on credit, credit repair, buying tips, and bargain hunting. Ifyou miss the live show a recorded copy will be available for online listening or download to your ipod. If you read any blog posts that interest you, feel free to leave comments as that will help me help you or even someone else who may have a similar question.
Prices in Simi Valley have fallen 20% since January. More specifically 85% of every single family detached home sold this year has been below $550,000. Two weeks ago that number was $585,000. Homes have fallen as much as 30% and more in some of the Simi tracts. I would not let short sales keep you from looking online right now.
Between, Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and many other sites, you can monitor the active listings on your own with no pressure. If you need more specific local information you can set an RSS feed from my blog to your Reader. I blog on Simi market conditions and sales at least twice a month. I also blog on local issues important to home owners in Simi & Moorpark On my older website, I have scans of floorplans to many of the tracts that are probably in your price range.
If you go to my blog in the link below, there are links on the right hand side of the page to my old website and my activerain.com blog. Check in every once in a while as I will be soon starting up 30 minute live podcasts on ustream.tv on credit, credit repair, buying tips, and bargain hunting. Ifyou miss the live show a recorded copy will be available for online listening or download to your ipod. If you read any blog posts that interest you, feel free to leave comments as that will help me help you or even someone else who may have a similar question.
Ted Mackel answered:
Sabine certain REOs are selling with multiple offers right now and this will continue and not let off. The REOs I am seeing go out fast are priced aggressively and tend to have good upgrades and look to be in decent condition. If you want to find an REO that does not have multiples offers then you are looking at a serious fixer and it will be locationally challenged and the neighborhood may have some issues.
Example I have buyers in escrow now this current escrow and the two other REOs we wrote on, all had 5-6 competing offers. Good property is not sitting on the market.
Example I have buyers in escrow now this current escrow and the two other REOs we wrote on, all had 5-6 competing offers. Good property is not sitting on the market.
Ted Mackel answered:
Sabine,
If the bank put the house up for what they paid for it buyers will bid the house up to what a willing buyer will want to pay for the property and that will be much higher than 350K. The bank is a business and will look to make money on this if possible.
When the bank took the property back there were probably back property taxes and other issues (costs) it had to pay to straighten out Title. The bank has much more than $350k in the property.
The short answer is that they are asking $180k over what they got it back at the TD sale because they can start the asking price where ever they want.
The bank has already hired a couple of brokers to do a BPO (Broker Price Opinion) and that is most likely how they set the price. I just did a BPO for a bank last week and in the BPO they ask for a pricing strategy.
If the bank put the house up for what they paid for it buyers will bid the house up to what a willing buyer will want to pay for the property and that will be much higher than 350K. The bank is a business and will look to make money on this if possible.
When the bank took the property back there were probably back property taxes and other issues (costs) it had to pay to straighten out Title. The bank has much more than $350k in the property.
The short answer is that they are asking $180k over what they got it back at the TD sale because they can start the asking price where ever they want.
The bank has already hired a couple of brokers to do a BPO (Broker Price Opinion) and that is most likely how they set the price. I just did a BPO for a bank last week and in the BPO they ask for a pricing strategy.
Ted Mackel answered:
This a pretty old question....are you still looking Renee?
I have to say that it is interesting and it really does not take a degree in rocket science to figure out when people like Renee ask questions on Trulia that they would not be here if the wanted to contact local Realtor.
It is a total disservice to the people asking questions here at Trulia when some one posts as an answer to "contact a local Realtor" or to find a person ( that specializes in that field) in your area to help you. I think that they already know how to do that.
I have to say that it is interesting and it really does not take a degree in rocket science to figure out when people like Renee ask questions on Trulia that they would not be here if the wanted to contact local Realtor.
It is a total disservice to the people asking questions here at Trulia when some one posts as an answer to "contact a local Realtor" or to find a person ( that specializes in that field) in your area to help you. I think that they already know how to do that.
Ted Mackel answered:
Morris,
Ojai has a separate Multiple Listing Service. Barry gave only what we get on the Ventura System. If I were a home seller in Ojai I would demand that my listing be put on both systems, but you never know there are probably a few more on the http://www.ojaivalleymls.com/
Ojai has a separate Multiple Listing Service. Barry gave only what we get on the Ventura System. If I were a home seller in Ojai I would demand that my listing be put on both systems, but you never know there are probably a few more on the http://www.ojaivalleymls.com/
Specialties
Residential Home Sales: Listing Agent and Buyer's agent
Commercial Leasing: Retail, Office and industrial
Commercial Representations: Tenant, Landlord, Seller and Buyer
Computer Literate
Heavy computer user for 20 years (both PC and Mac). Very high competence with Full versions of Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. Digital Cameras, Scanners, OCR software, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and all other word processing software. PDA cell phones, text messaging, efax account and email - either web based or desktop driven. Registered subscriber to Winforms - residential real estate contracts and WinAIRforms - commercial real estate contracts. Paid Subscriber to Loopnet.
Full Time Producing Agent working with Active Buyers and Sellers.
Creates real time market condition awareness. 2007 Century21 Masters Diamond production award recipient, ranked in top 100 producers for the California inland coastal region.
Long term investment property experience
Contract negotiations with large corporations. Contract, LOI and purchase offer experience beyond standard boiler plate forms.
Construction experience
Deferred maintenance issues and property repairs will be better assessed
Respected among peers
Elected to Association and then selected to serve as Treasurer.
Member of SoCal and Ventura County Multiple Listing Services
Properties that border Los Angeles and Ventura Counties may not be included on both systems. Access to both systems is needed for proper evaluations to be conducted and to give homes proper exposure to the largest buyer pool.
Hands on
You will not be dumped off to assistants.
Property Management Experience
Dealing with tenants, hostile and non hostile. If there is a need to list and sell property you control; my above skills create a combination that is not matched by other agents in the industry. You get much more than a sign stuck in the front yard of your property and an MLS entry.
Native local resident
In-depth knowledge of the areas I serve.
Commercial Leasing: Retail, Office and industrial
Commercial Representations: Tenant, Landlord, Seller and Buyer
Computer Literate
Heavy computer user for 20 years (both PC and Mac). Very high competence with Full versions of Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. Digital Cameras, Scanners, OCR software, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and all other word processing software. PDA cell phones, text messaging, efax account and email - either web based or desktop driven. Registered subscriber to Winforms - residential real estate contracts and WinAIRforms - commercial real estate contracts. Paid Subscriber to Loopnet.
Full Time Producing Agent working with Active Buyers and Sellers.
Creates real time market condition awareness. 2007 Century21 Masters Diamond production award recipient, ranked in top 100 producers for the California inland coastal region.
Long term investment property experience
Contract negotiations with large corporations. Contract, LOI and purchase offer experience beyond standard boiler plate forms.
Construction experience
Deferred maintenance issues and property repairs will be better assessed
Respected among peers
Elected to Association and then selected to serve as Treasurer.
Member of SoCal and Ventura County Multiple Listing Services
Properties that border Los Angeles and Ventura Counties may not be included on both systems. Access to both systems is needed for proper evaluations to be conducted and to give homes proper exposure to the largest buyer pool.
Hands on
You will not be dumped off to assistants.
Property Management Experience
Dealing with tenants, hostile and non hostile. If there is a need to list and sell property you control; my above skills create a combination that is not matched by other agents in the industry. You get much more than a sign stuck in the front yard of your property and an MLS entry.
Native local resident
In-depth knowledge of the areas I serve.
Experience
Latest:
Realtor 2.0 for Keller Williams Realty
Residential resale and Commercial Leasing
March 2008—present
Previous:
Realtor for Century 21
Residential resales and Commercial Leasing
June 2003—March 2008
Previous:
Real Estate Agent/Property Manager for The Mackel Company
Commercial retail property management and leasing
January 1994—June 2003
Certifications & Awards
2005 Masters Ruby Century 21, 2006 Masters Centurion Century 21, 2007 Masters Diamond Century 21, top 100 producers regoinal 2007 Century 21
Interests
Outdoors, Fishing, RC Airplanes, Computers, Real Estate
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