Real Estate Closing Investment Pro (RECIP)

12/30/2025

Wishing you and your family, a wonderful 2026 & beyond, filled with love, kindness, success, good health, happiness and more friendships.

Warmest Regards,
Fred Eckert

12/10/2025

Well, this is not very good! Sellers need to make offers to buyers to get things rolling. I wrote about my Seller's Offer idea, previously!

A Hefty Financial Penalty for Moving: Nationally, typical current mortgage holders face nearly a $1,000 increase in monthly payments to buy a median-priced home today. The sizable gap between existing mortgage payments and the cost of buying a home in today’s market has created a powerful "loc...

11/20/2025

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Home sales and new listings were little changed from a month and a year earlier in October, and prices have also shown signs of flattening. Buyers still have the upper hand, as the typical home that sold went for 1.5% less than its final list price—the biggest October discount since 2019. Numerous...

11/14/2025

10/30/2025

19 complaints about travel. Amazing and humorous.

1. "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax."

2. "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food."

3. "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish."

4. "We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price."

5. "The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room."

6. "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow."

7. "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time -- this should be banned."

8. "No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared."

9. "Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the drawers."

10. "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."

11. "The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun."

12. "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair."

13. "I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends' three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller."

14. "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the resort.' We're trainee hairdressers and we think they knew and made us wait longer for service."

15. "When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners."

16. "We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning."

17. "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

18. "I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes."

19. "My fiancée and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."

10/30/2025

This is funny!
Guy Takes His Girlfriend To Her First Football Game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench.

After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.

"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."

Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it, and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was, 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like, hello? It's only 25 cents!"

10/24/2025

HOA tips!

Do you have any advice on dealing with hostile neighbors? There is a couple in our HOA that make the rest of us miserable with their constant complaining and badgering the board about rule violations.

10/13/2025

It's a lovers question!

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10/13/2025

I never get tired of the great dance song!

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10/09/2025

HOA tips-

Amending CC&Rs can be difficult.

10/07/2025

This is very interesting! Realtors and Condo sellers take note!

Would-be condo buyers are spooked by high costs, including rising HOA dues and insurance fees—but the silver lining is bargaining power. The gap between sellers and buyers has shrunk since springtime, though, when there were 81% more sellers. There were an estimated 72.3% more condo sellers than b...

09/29/2025

Home Flippers and Investors take note.

It pays less and less to buy and flip a home these days. The typical home flipping profit margin fell in the second quarter to its lowest level since 2008, with a typical return of 25.1% before expenses.