About Jessica Hickok
Jessica Hickok, GRI
REALTOR® Broker Officer
Vice President of Operations
Dizmang Properties, Inc.
3048 S. Clifton, Suite 100
Springfield, MO 65807
Office Phone (417) 887-0501
E-mail: jessica [at] getpaul [dot] com
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A 30-something girl geek that works in real estate and property management with Dizmang Properties in Springfield, MO since March 2000. You can see the official resume on her LinkedIn profile.
Thinks that the world really would be a better place if everyone used a Mac instead of a PC.
Happily married since 1998 and has two growing boys that she loves more than anything in this world.
Addicted to Twitter (@SugarCube) but is getting a little tired and overwhelmed with social networking and all it entails.
Type 1 diabetic since she was a teenager. Volunteers with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and is currently on the board of directors with the St. Louis chapter. Founded the JDRF Ozarks chapter in 2009 and is currently the council chair for the local board of directors.
Found a quirky niche with producing the Hot Tub Landlord video series for both YouTube and FaceBook.
Has spoken at a lot of seminars, conferences and classrooms on property management, technology and continuing education classes for REALTORS®.
You’ll find her drinking black coffee in the morning (preferably Panera’s Hazelnut) and Diet Coke with fresh lime the rest of the day. While the coffee may be straight, there is no guarantee that the Diet Coke is.
Due to an obsession with high-end designer shoes, she harbors a secret desire to create her own shoe line.
Can type approximately 72 words per minute. And maybe text that many too.
Considers Mary Poppins to be her favorite movie.
Jessica Hickok is not a writer, but a blogger. Writers write for other people. Bloggers just spill their guts, share too much information and don’t always think before blogging. Therefore most bloggers are dripping with sarcasm and a selfish point of view.
Welcome to Jessica Hickok’s Blog.
Disclosures:
1) Yes, I am a licensed real estate broker in the state of Missouri, affiliated with Dizmang Properties, Inc. in Springfield, Missouri. However, the views and opinions reflected in this blog are my personal thoughts and opinions and are not that of my company’s. Okay, maybe sometimes they are.
2) No, I am not a medical doctor. Therefore any advice or opinions on type 1 diabetes shared on this blog are of a personal nature and experience(s). They should not to be considered as any sort of medical advice. Duh.
3) You will find lots of sarcasm in this blog. Do not fire off nasty e-mails to me about it, my blog is not meant to be mean or offensive. You may also find lots of geekery and maybe some other awesomesauce things in this blog. Like it or not, just don’t judge me for it. This blog is random. Random like a grab bag. You’ve now been warned.
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Hi Jessica,
Yesterday I received an email via my blog from someone asking for advice about property management.
I would like to write a post (on my blog) around this email but I would like to get the perspective of a “real” property manager.
Would you be interested in contributing to this post?
Regards,
Bruce Sutherland
Landlord-Success.com
Jessica, I hope all is well with you . I wanted to know if you could comment or for better words guest blog a situation I found disturbing.
Here is what I have: Foreclosure
It’s official.
Home prices have double dipped nationwide, now lower than their March 2009 trough, according to a new report from Clear Capital.
It was inevitable, and it was predicted (by me for sure) that a surge in sales of foreclosed properties and a big push by banks to facilitate short sales would force home prices down dramatically.
Sales of bank-owned (REO) properties hit 34.5 percent of the market, according to the survey, resulting in a national price drop of 4.9 percent quarterly and 5 percent year-over-year. National home prices have fallen 11.5 percent in the past nine months, a rate not seen since 2008. Add short sales, where the bank allows the borrower to sell for less than the value of the mortgage, and prices have nowhere to go but down.
“With more than one-third of national home sales being REO (bank owned), market prices are being weighed down as many markets have not regained enough footing to withstand the strain of the high proportion of REO sales,” says Clear Capital’s Alex Villacorta.
You don’t have to tell Los Angeles Realtor Bill Kerbox any of this. LA prices had been improving, and LA is still one of the nation’s best performing metro markets right now. Recently, however, prices took a turn, now down 2.4 percent quarter to quarter thanks to 34 percent REO saturation.
From http://www.cnbc.com/id/42904204
What does this mean for me and all the rest of us?
If you don’t have the time I understand..I just wanted to here something straight ( from someone who knows what is going on)
Hey Killpoke, sorry I missed your comment here and have been delayed in responding to you. Give me a few days to let it marinate and I will write a post up about it. Thanks!
Great post!! Very useful!! by:Westchester Property Manager