Just when you hope you've heard it all, you know in this business that the worst is yet to come. Some fresh new hell. Recently, it's been agents trying to justify their buyer's offers. The thing is I don't care about your justification. The seller doesn't care about your justification. And the ba
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03/11/2012
Believe it or not, but there are real estate agents in this business who unintentionally blow their buyers' purchase offers out of the water. If you're a buyer whose offer was not accepted by a seller, you might look more closely at your agent. You probably do anyway because it's human nature to
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03/10/2012
Although officially on the clock and therefore working, this Sacramento short sale agent did take a trip yesterday with family to San Francisco. We hopped on the Capitol Corridor train, switched to the B.A.R.T. at Richmond and stepped out into the wonderful world of Powell and Market. Around Sacr
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03/08/2012
I know that buyer's agents in Sacramento have it tough right now. I hear agents lament about buyers. How they have to "learn their lesson the hard way" by writing a lowball offer on a home they really really want only to lose out to another buyer because they did not listen to their agent. Why do
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03/07/2012
Is there a silver lining in a short sale? Sometimes, I am so focused on a short sale that a seller could say, "And then I cut off my arm with the lawn mower blade" and it's possible I could blubber, "that's great!" It's not that I'm not listening to their story; it's that I am listening too close
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03/06/2012
It's got 4 walls and a roof and somebody will live in it. That's how years ago I used to describe investment property and, quite frankly, I can't believe I was so naive. In fact, up until the Easton Case, I never even looked at property before buying it -- neither as an investor nor for my invest
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03/05/2012
Ants. This is the time of year we see ants. Wet weather, warm days and the ants come out in Land Park. That's the recipe. Good thing it doesn't rain in the summer in Sacramento. It would only bring more and more ants. Ants are infuriating. How can something so small cause such irritation? Ha! Tha
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03/04/2012
I can hear the high-five slaps now. That's how I felt when I heard Chase Bank was going to Equator, but I had nobody to high-five but my cat. So, I tossed back a shot glass of diet coke, let out a whoop and slapped my desk. As a Sacramento short sale agent who has closed way too many of her fair
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03/03/2012
It's not just me who loves this Land Park home. Buyers and their agents are going gaga over it, too. My new Land Park listing hit the market yesterday morning. We have an open house scheduled for Sunday. My phone is ringing with buyer's agents asking when we will present all of the offers. If you
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03/03/2012
Instead of being unhappy about what you don't have, why don't you try being happy about what you don't have? It's the things-could-be-a-lot-worse syndrome. Or, as my mother used to say when I didn't want to eat something: think about the starving children in China. Who were those starving childre
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03/01/2012
