by Tom Kelly
Inman News

Searching for a home can be draining in “normal” times. When inventory is high and home mortgages are more difficult to obtain, the process of finding a property and securing financing can be downright exhausting.

“Creating financing” is one of the items that is “in” for 2009, according to an annual survey conducted by Mark Nash, a Coldwell Banker broker and real estate author who uses a network of 839 Realtors in all 50 states and eight Canadian provinces to acquire consumer responses to a variety of housing questions.

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Kaiser Realty’s 2007/2008 Real Estate Guide is hot off the presses.  Featuring properties listed by 11 of Kaiser Realty’s sales agents, the 2007/2008 guide includes homes, condos and lots for sale along the Alabama Gulf Coast, including Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, Foley, Elberta and Bon Secour, as well as Perdido Key, FL.

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Kaiser Realty sales associates helped make history Oct. 1 when they teed off at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Golf Tournament. Billed as the “Largest Shotgun Start in the World”, Kaiser Realty was a hole sponsor for the event and also sponsored a team in the tournament. Former Auburn University Football All-American and St. Louis Cardinal safety Larry Willingham is a Kaiser sales associate and a member of the ASHOF. “What we wanted to do was make it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest shotgun start for a golf tournament in the history of the world. We had more than 1,000 golfers starting at the same time on nine Robert Trent Jones courses throughout the state,” he said. (more…)

Kaiser Realty, Inc. sales assiciates took to the links at the Cypress Bend course at Craft Farms Aug. 24 as part of the annual Mary’s Shelter golf tournament. Kaiser Realty and Cosmo’s Restaurant and Bar were the title sponsors of the tourney. Mary’s Shelter is a home in the Elberta area that provides housing, education, counseling and supportive services for young women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.  “We were more than pleased to sponsor the tournament and support Mary’s Shelter,” Kaiser Realty Vice-President Glen Kaiser said. “The great work Jo Godfrey, Jack Gleeson and the others at Mary’s Shelter do can’t really be described with just words. It’s emotional and uplifting.” (more…)

   

Sales associates from Kaiser Realty, Inc. spent Aug. 17 and 18 getting up-close to many of the boats that participated in the Gulf Coast Powerboat Association’s Thunder on the Gulf. As a sponsor of Thunder on the Gulf, Kaiser Realty was able to man a tent at the “dry pits” area at The Wharf in Orange Beach. Located immediately south of the Rave theatre, the “dry pits” were where the powerboats were trailered before the races, and during the weekend the boats and their crews spent a great deal of time in the “dry pits.” The crews interacted with race fans and the fans were able to get right next to these powerful boats.  (more…)