Saugatuck Real Estate | Pat and Pam Murphy, Realtors

Home Builders Association of the Holland Area - West Michigan Lakeshore Parade of Homes June 12 - 21, 2008.

Patrick Murphy Builders, LLC award winning custom home builder. Look for his beautiful "The Perryman II" floor plan to be in this years Parade of Homes. Fully furnished, 2600 sq ft of designer features, showcased in this years Patrick Murphy's home. From the inviting front porch, the outdoor shower to the contempory design farmhouse, you will fall in love with this home.  All located near Douglas Beach & Tower Marine.

Call or email me today for a personal showing on this outsiding home built by my husband, Pat Murphy.

My husband, Pat & I, run a small Custom Home Building Business - we feel we have a solid foundation to survive this difficult economy and housing market.

Pat has built a very strong small business certain to weather this storm. These days, so many custom home builders are out of work or barely surviving. He is as busy as ever and chugging right along!

People wishing to build their dream home or second home or remodeling project, here in West Michigan, have the challenging and sometimes nerve racking  process of choosing a builder. This is the person you will have a daily relationship with for the next siix to ten months, and then less frequent contact for years to come. This decision is not to be taken lightly!

Top 10 reasons to chose Patrick Murphy Builders, LLC

FORGET FLORIDA!!!   Move to Saugatuck for your "Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life." 

Barbara Corcoran has built her career on knowing where people will live even before they know it themselves. 

The broker turns her incomparable real estate eye on baby boomers planning for retirment and predicts the demographics of where they are looking to retire.  

Just listen to this video on her insight of why Saugatuck, Michigan would be an ideal spot:  The Today Show. 

Everyone belongs somewhere & for my husband, Pat & myself, Saugatuck/Douglas, Michigan is where we want to be!!!!

Contact me for your take on the video & if you too, are wondering about how to discover this surprising place.

OX-BOW The Second Century  - Since its founding in 1910, Ox-Bow has played a significant part of the makeup of the West Michigan Community.

In naming Saugatuck/Douglas as "Preserve American Communities," theWhite House awarded "Ox-Bow with attracting well known artists and architects to the area, resulting in an influx of building and a renewed arts and culture based economy."

Today, Saugatuck/Douglas  is known as the Art Coast of Michigan and Ox-Bow continues to lead West Michigan's cultural growth.  Ox-Bow is a Michigan based non profit organization whose 1st priority is excellence in art education.  With it's relationship of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, it provides a high level of instruction without the traditional academic setting.  This enable students and artists to spend their time at Ox-Bow immersed in their work while living on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan and enjoying the 115-acres of natural landscape & historic buildings

MOTHER NATURE is trying to welcome in Spring with warmer weather and longer days.  We've been seeing robins returning for awhile now but where is the nice weather?????  It's a great time of year to stretch your legs, either at Oval Beach in Saugatuck, beautiful Douglas Beach in Douglas or Saugatuck Dunes State Park.  Hope you can plan a visit soon & shake off those winter blues. 

 Speaking of Trust......working with some of you either by showing lake properties for your second home to purchase, a condo/townhome to buy in Saugatuck/Douglas area or working with my husband, Pat, of Patrick Murphy Builders, LLC, building or remodeling your homes. Pat & I both have extended a trust with you.  Thus, we are able to serve more of our Clients because of this extended trust.

You repay that Trust with Loyalty by coming back & seeking our Professional help & expertise.

Should You Buy a House in Foreclosure?

There has been a whopping increase in the number of foreclosures in the current housing market.  ARE there great real estate deals to be had because of this?  Sure.  Times like this mean bargains galore!!!

 But if you want to buy a home for yourself or an an investment property, you need to be careful NOW more than ever.

So, here are a few very important (and overlooked) "rules" to keep in mind when buying a foreclosed home.....

RULE #1  Get Real  Before you have huge $$$$ signs dancing in your head, let's put this into perspective.......As the real estate market & Banks should of realized this the last few years which put the market in a state of turmoil. 

The big, CONSISTENT money is never easy.  So whatever you do, stay away from the so called experts and their "get rich quick off foreclosures" schemes. 

RULE #2 Get Educated  Don't get caught in the trap of "flipping houses" is a piece of cake!  That can cost you a fortune!

Arm yourself w/knowledge of buying foreclosure properties by education yourself.  Here is an excellent read - Buying Real Estate Foreclosures  by Melissa Kollen-Rice.  And then make sure you line yourself up with a Realtor's expertise.

RULE #3  Partner Up Work w/a buyer's agent who has plenty of experience...

Whatever you do, you need the role of a qualified, experienced agent to help you find and purchase foreclosures at the best possible prices. 

RULE #4  Get Experience  Visit a live foreclosure auction. You'll experience the process of buying a foreclosed property everything from all the paper work & the commitment of the purchase.  These auctions are typically held monthly-you can find the locations in the classified section of your local paper.

RULE #5  Mean Business  When you've finally found that right house-hit them with your BEST offer because you have a LOT of competition out there right now.  This means:  PAY CASH, CLOSE QUICKLY.  Agree to NO inspections.

Play your cards right and investing in foreclosures can pay off big!