I received an email this morning from an unknown person in another state. I regularly receive email from people I do not know, but generally they are trying to sell me prescription drugs from Canada or they have tips about my love life that are essential to my happiness and filled with misspelled
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01/11/2011
My friend and associate Jim Kimmons, who writes the real estate business website for About.com, posted a blog last week talking about whether falling real estate prices are the fault of real estate agents who list short sale properties. His position is agents don't control the real estate market,
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01/10/2011
I don't know if we ever fully recover after a death of someone we love, but we do find ways to manage that empty spot in our lives. The pain gets easier to bear and it dissolves into happier memories of more pleasant times. For example, I can now talk more openly about the death of my cat, Brando
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01/09/2011
I have been reading a ton of articles about the different apps available for the iPad and downloading suggestions. People think I'm a tech wiz but that's only because I do stuff they don't or can't do. I'm really no different than your average real estate agent. I am, however, an early adopter of
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01/08/2011
My challenge this morning is to write a blog in 15 minutes before I run off to the doctor for bloodwork. Just like how my older cat, Brandon, used to get bloodwork done every year -- probably because he couldn't talk -- so do I. They want to know my cholesterol level, primarily; which, thanks to
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01/07/2011
The public seems to think that we real estate agents spend a lot of time in our offices, and nothing could be further from the truth. There are only 2 reasons for me to go to the office. Either I'm meeting with a client for a closing or I am attending a weekly office meeting. While I am at my Mid
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01/06/2011
Ever since I decided to do a little advertising of my Sacramento short sale agent services, my phone has been ringing. Mostly, clients come to me by referrals these days and from the Internet, not from print. I've been getting calls from sellers contemplating a short sale and asking me to verify
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01/05/2011
Whether a seller ends up making a seller contribution to do a Sacramento short sale most likely has very little to do with the negotiating power of their Sacramento short sale agent. Granted, some short sale agents in Sacramento possess specialized knowledge, and they understand how to explain C.
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01/04/2011
It doesn't astonish me how many scams are being run in Sacramento short sales these days. From agents trying to double-end and double-escrow short sales to those who collect huge front-end fees that are against the law, the scammers come out of the woodwork when people are hurting -- seems to be
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01/03/2011
I prefer to think of New Year's resolutions as goals and not resolutions. Because resolutions are things you break. Aw, come on. You know it and I know it. How many years have you sat down and written something like, "lose 10 pounds," and then you go out and buy a box of chocolate-covered cherrie
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01/02/2011