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"Greg and his wife Cathleen are not only outstanding real estate agents, but genuinely nice people as well. If you are looking for a hardworking, honest agent (I know, easy jokes here) then look no further than Bloodhound Realty for your housing needs. Greg and Cathleen have helped me and a close friend close 5 properties in the Phoenix area over the last few years, and every time it goes smoothly and Greg makes sure that we are well taken care of. I can honestly state that I will never use another agent in Phoenix unless he retires and tells me who he would recommend. It's hard to find business people that go out of their way to ensure that YOU are taken care of first, and themselves second, but that's exactly what Bloodhound does." – Mike B

"When I first met Greg Swann, he was helping a friend of mine find a house in the Phoenix area. During the weekend they were looking, I found a situation on my own with another company that was pitching a rent-to-own scenario. I wasn't comfortable enough with the situation to know if I was being told the truth, or was I getting a scam. That afternoon, when Greg returned with my friend, I told him as much about it as I could, hoping that he would answer my questions. Instead of just answering my questions, Greg accompanied me back to the agent I had spoken to, and proceeded to start asking questions so fast that I got lost in the details of the conversation. After we left, Greg explained what he was able to ferret out from the other agent and then gave me a few suggestions and recommendations to point me in the right direction. During this entire time Greg never asked to be paid for his time or expertise, and would not even let me buy him a cup of coffee.
     Before the weekend was over, Greg had helped my friend make an offer on a house they had looked at. It was then I decided to enlist Greg's help once again, only this time I asked him to represent me as well. That evening with Greg acting on my behalf, we were able to make an offer of our own to the other agent, which a few hours later was accepted. Without Greg's help neither of these transactions would have occurred or have been possible.
     But the story doesn't end there...
     Greg helped set up the necessary inspections, assisted with the paperwork, helped place the financing, was always diligent and attentive to my needs, and was willing to go the extra mile with a smile. He made everything seem easy.
     I thank him for his efforts and cannot say enough about his attitude and professionalism. I have recommended Greg to other members of my family, whom he has taken care of as he did me, and I continue to recommend him to anyone that has a need for an agent or needs any help in the real estate business." – John R

"Greg Swann helped me buy my first house in Phoenix in 2005. He was fantastic, leading me - then a first time home buyer - through the buying process when the Phoenix market was very hot.
     Greg and Cathleen sold that house for me in 2007 (when the Phoenix market was starting to decline). Mine was the last home to sell in that neighborhood before the market went into free fall. It was all because of their help: they supervised repairs, staged it, and sold it for more than I paid for it. They are fantastic.
     I recommend anyone buying or selling in Phoenix to use them. Very professional, very thorough, excellent either on the buying and selling side." – Damon C

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Weblog Posts of Enduring Interest

• I went duck-hunting with Elmer Fudd and came home with a radically different approach to real estate prospecting
• Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: Everything we do to list historic, architecturally-distinctive and luxury homes for sale
• Home staging advice: How you can get your house ready to sell on a shoestring budget
• Does it make a difference which Realtor lists your short-sale home?
• Why are lender-owned homes so much easier to buy than short sales?
• A look back at the last decade in real estate, what I got right, what I got wrong — and where things go from here
• Why does BloodhoundRealty.com not require registration to use our MLS search? It’s a matter of morality — but the moral is the practical
• What’s the real estate price trend for bread-and-butter homes in Metropolitan Phoenix? Prices are up and down — but mostly flat…
• Are the uninformed chatterboxes in your area insisting that the real estate market has recovered? You may want to defer the celebration. Even so, this could be the golden moment for investors in Phoenix.
• Just in time for Independence Day, a real estate consumer’s Declaration of Independence.
• When the weather finally breaks in Phoenix — it breaks for ten solid months of pure paradise…
• BloodhoundRealty.com’s Greg Swann and Canadian real estate investor Bill Chipman featured today on an NPR Radio story on Phoenix rental-home investing for buyers from Canada.
• Channel 15 News: “Arizona real estate being snapped up by Canadian buyers?”
• Got Loonies? Barrack Obama is the best American president Canadian real estate investors have ever seen!
• The economic policies of the U.S. government could not be better — for Canadians buying real estate in Phoenix, that is…
• What matters most in rental home investing in the Phoenix area? Everything!
• Why won’t I take real estate investors to buy super-cheap rental homes in Queen Creek, Maricopa or Buckeye? Because residences without residents have no value…
• There is money to be made in Phoenix-area rental homes — unless you lose it to a scam artist
• A more active kind of real estate investment: Fixing and flipping distressed homes for fun and profit.
• For rental home investors in metropolitan Phoenix, the perfect storm is almost upon us.

 

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