I stopped at the Pottery Barn this morning -- I can't seem to stay OUT of that store!! Because I wear my badge these days almost everywhere, I'm easily recognizable as a real estate agent. The Pottery Barn sales clerk, staring at my name badge asked, "So, how's the market? Pretty bad, huh?"I glan
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09/28/2007
When you sit down to write in your blog, do you know exactly what you are going to say or do you wing it? Some people, I hear, prepare an outline, spread out Post-It notes, open related books to bookmarked pages, scour the Internet for fact-checking and even then, they face an empty screen with a
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09/28/2007
It saddens me to report that renowned real estate columnist Bob Bruss died today. It was difficult to blog about it, but I did it anyway.Trying to choose companion articles to follow was difficult. Every article I chose had some connotation to it, even the ones I ended up including. Somehow, wor
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09/26/2007
If you've ever clicked the wrong button or had a power failure when working on your Web site, come over and crawl into a cry-fest with me. Yesterday morning I was working on my site, updating, adding a few links, and I was on the wrong page by mistake. When I clicked "submit," it wiped out my Web
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09/23/2007
Something tells me that the recent Sacramento pot house busts are only the tip of the iceberg -- there are probably hundreds of other illegal pot operations throughout Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado Counties that the police departments have yet to discover. Suburbia hides this sort of stu
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09/23/2007
I always wonder where they go. Do they start over like a Phoenix? Do they learn from their mistakes and rise again? Do they ever apologize or do they feel victimized, like somehow they were entitled to steal the information they so blatantly claimed as their own?In some ways, I am sorry that thei
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09/18/2007
Welcome to fabulous Midtown. This Craftsman bungalow is a contractor's special. Priced competitively for its condition. SPECS: The home has 2 to 3 bedrooms, one bath (with dual entrances) approximately 1367 square feet per assessor -- seems much larger -- and it was built in 1910. One car detache
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09/15/2007
I hear it over and over, "We're going to wait until the market hits bottom." Like buyers have some secret crystal ball that we, as professionals, have no access to. I submit that many of these buyers are following the herd. The herd buys property in a seller's market. When everybody else is falli
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09/11/2007
It's too bad that so many of the banks were burned and now have excess inventory on their books. I feel for them, I really do, but one would think that most banks would be more eager to dump that inventory instead of sitting on it. I searched in the central core of Sacramento, and found 489 REOs
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09/01/2007
