<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"><channel><title>The Jesse Herfel Group's Blog by The Jesse Herfel Group</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/</link><description /><managingEditor>The Jesse Herfel Group</managingEditor><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>RPS Blog Version 1.1.0.0</generator><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>Record rise in foreclosures may be distorting housing data</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=16346</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=16346</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=16346#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/16346.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/16346.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="470" border="0"&gt;
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            &lt;td&gt;&lt;img height="1"&amp;nbsp;..&lt;span style="font-size:90%;margin-left:5px;color:#0000FF;vertical-align:baseline;"&gt;&lt;font size="-3" color="gray"&gt;(&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=16346"&gt;read&amp;nbsp;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-3" color="gray"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/16346.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>5 key questions answered on housing relief act</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=16288</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=16288</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=16288#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/16288.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/16288.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adapted from the Arizona Republic&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="blocked::http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/email.php/8262057" href="http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/email.php/8262057" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="EC_sidebar" title="blocked::http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/email.php/8262057"&gt;&lt;font color="#810081"&gt;http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/email.php/8262057&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/16288.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>New Housing Bill to Stimulate the Market</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=15834</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=15834</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=15834#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/15834.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/15834.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Realty Times reported a new Bill that has established tax credit for first time home buyers between now and the end of June 2009.&amp;nbsp; For the full story go to&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20080731_realestateoutlook.htm"&gt;http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20080731_realestateoutlook.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/15834.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>JDPower.com ranks real estate companies, and the winner is Keller Williams!</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=15712</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=15712</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=15712#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/15712.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/15712.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;This link on J.D. Power's website ranks large real estate companies for customer satisfaction.&amp;nbsp; The Jesse Herfel Group is proud to be a Keller Williams team!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="blocked::http://www.jdpower.com/homes/ratings/home-buyer-ratings" href="http://www.jdpower.com/homes/ratings/home-buyer-ratings"&gt;&lt;font color="#800080"&gt;http://www.jdpower.com/homes/ratings/home-buyer-ratings&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="140010315-28072008"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="140010315-28072008"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/15712.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>AmeriDream program</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=14157</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=14157</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=14157#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/14157.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/14157.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000" size="3"&gt;Call the Jesse Herfel Group today for more information at 602-565-2424 or visit &lt;a href="http://www.ameridream.org"&gt;www.ameridream.org&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.herfelgrouphomes.com/agent_files/Ameri dream.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/14157.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>Introducing the HILP program</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=9988</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=9988</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=9988#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/9988.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/9988.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Jesse Herfel Group is now offering a great tool to assist its clients in selling their homes faster, and for top dollar.&amp;nbsp; HILP, or home improvement listing program, offers home improvement services that assist a quicker sale, and the best part is no money is owed until the home sells!&amp;nbsp; Contractors are hired to survey the home and over-see the projects including kitchen and flooring upgrades, remodeling, paint and tile work.&amp;nbsp; HILP can help make sure your home looks its best before going on the market.&amp;nbsp; The Jesse Herfel Group is HILP certified and able to offer this service to you!&amp;nbsp; Check out more at &lt;a href="http://www.hilp.com"&gt;www.hilp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/9988.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>Great tips for buyers and sellers.</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=9941</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:26:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=9941</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=9941#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/9941.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/9941.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;For anyone looking to buy or sell, the popular home channel HGTV has compiled a great list of tips and common real estate mistakes.&amp;nbsp; Even if you are not looking to take action immediately, these tips can help you with future real estate decisons, and you can also share them with your family and friends.&amp;nbsp; Click on the link below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/real_estate/article/0,3120,HGTV_27356_5846325,00.html"&gt;http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/real_estate/article/0,3120,HGTV_27356_5846325,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you have any further real estate needs or questions, please feel free to call&amp;nbsp;The Jesse Herfel Group&amp;nbsp;at anytime 602-565-2424.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/9941.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>The Jesse Herfel Group Announces its New Weekly Foreclosure Bus Tour!</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=8707</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=8707</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=8707#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/8707.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/8707.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 365px; HEIGHT: 114px" height="298" width="113" alt="" src="http://www.herfelgrouphomes.com/agent_files/5_JesseHerfel_logo_RGB.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"&gt;The Jesse Herfel Realty Group would like to announce our new weekly Foreclosure Bus Tour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;We would like to invite you to tour bank owned Gilbert Homes. This is a huge opportunity to take advantage of the foreclosure market and build your wealth through real estate.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;Our focus this tour will be on Bank Owned Gilbert homes under $200,000.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&amp;nbsp;..&lt;span style="font-size:90%;margin-left:5px;color:#0000FF;vertical-align:baseline;"&gt;&lt;font size="-3" color="gray"&gt;(&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=8707"&gt;read&amp;nbsp;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-3" color="gray"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/8707.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>2007 Gilbert Days Parade!</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=6734</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=6734</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=6734#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/6734.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/6734.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;We had a great day at the 2007 Gilbert Days Parade walking down Gilbert Road handing out T-shirts, frisbees, and cuzzis.&amp;nbsp; Thanks to all who made the parade a huge success!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 291px; HEIGHT: 241px" height="11" width="10" alt="" src="http://www.herfelgrouphomes.com/agent_files/DSC02529.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 257px; HEIGHT: 276px" height="11" width="10" alt=""&amp;nbsp;..&lt;span style="font-size:90%;margin-left:5px;color:#0000FF;vertical-align:baseline;"&gt;&lt;font size="-3" color="gray"&gt;(&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=6734"&gt;read&amp;nbsp;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="-3" color="gray"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src ="http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/aggbug/6734.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><dc:creator>The Jesse Herfel Group</dc:creator><title>2007 Client Appreciation Party</title><link>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=5161</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:47:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=5161</guid><comments>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog_post.asp?post=5161#comment</comments><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/commentRss/5161.aspx</wfw:commentRss><trackback:ping>http://herfelgrouphomes.com/blog/services/trackbacks/5161.aspx</trackback:ping><description>&lt;div style="font-family:arial, geneva, lucida, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Tahoma" color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Thank you to all who showed your support and attended our annual Client Appreciation Party!&amp;nbsp; We hope you all enjoyed the cocktails, BBQ, steel drum musician, and DJ...not to mention all the great company who came out to enjoy the party!&amp;nbsp; The event was a big success and we hope that all who attended thoroughly enjoyed the night.&amp;nbsp; Congratulations to our drawing winners: Daniel Nowlins took home the new Ipod nano and Dave and Trisha Roer get to plan an upcoming vacation with their $1,500 travel voucher from World of Travel.&amp;nbsp; We cannot say enough how much we've appreciated all of your referrrals and our 2007 clients, and we are looking forward to another great year!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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