August 03, 2007

Your House

This is one of those real estate centric emails that makes the rounds ever so often, and I thought it was worth sharing.

Your house as seen by...

Yourself...

Yourself

Your buyer...

Buyer

Your lender...

Lender

Your appraiser...

Appraiser

Your tax assessor...

Assessor

Have a great weekend!

Aug 3, 2007 9:00:00 AM | Fun Friday

2 Comments

Bill Lyons

ha good stuff

Posted by: Bill Lyons | August 06, 2007 at 07:25 PM

Tim Abbott

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for stopping by!

Posted by: Tim Abbott | August 06, 2007 at 07:55 PM

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