If you are young, creative and or are looking for a place to start a family, Des Moines should be on your short list.

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matthew on July 20th, 2010

Des Moines Best Cheesecake just might be Unc’s Cheesecake

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Des Moines is having a Big Lebowski Festival which inspired Matthew Smith to come up with some more movie theme based events.

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Local Real Estate Investor Matthew Smith answer’s question about selling a house on contract in Des Moines

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matthew on July 25th, 2009

Top 10 Places to Eat in Des Moines

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matthew on July 16th, 2009

I wanted to extend my thanks to Kathy Davis and the great team of agents at Iowa Realty’s Jordan Grove office! You all really made me feel welcome for my presentation today on “Doing Short Sales in Des Moines”. I look forward to the opportunity to work with all of you here in the near [...]

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matthew on May 19th, 2009

I am going to preface this with the following statement: “If you are an attorney or for whatever reason have chosen to befriend an attorney, or perhaps are easily offended by critiques of our nations adjudicators and barristers – I mean you no ill will.” Just follow the money when you are listening to advice. [...]

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I was speaking to someone today about their house which they had gotten behind on their payments on. I asked them, “What’s the status of your house, I know you had said you were working on a loan modification?” To which, they (Like almost everyone who tries a loan mod) said:, ” That didn’t work [...]

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Matthew Smith speaks at local Des Moines 2 Rivers REIA group meeting

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Matthew Smith speaks at Des Moines’ local 2 Rivers REIA group meeting

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