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Buying or selling a home: how are you making hiring decisions?

As we are finding out (some for the first time), housing and the mortgages that finance it is a key economic engine.
Question: Is it important that the agent and/or loan officer you are working with have a keen understanding of fundamental market knowledge and economics? Should they show competency in basic fundamental economics [...]

Posted: July 13th, 2008 under General Real Estate.
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