I told Myrl Jeffcoat at lunch yesterday that she's going to surpass me for the number one Active Rain position in Sacramento. We were celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day but it was more like Talk With Your Mouth Full because we were very hungry. When you're really hungry, the place t
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09/20/2012
There are reasons why an investor is not always the best person to go into escrow with, apart from the fact they tend to financially ace out an owner occupant -- a person who wants to buy a home in Sacramento to live in. When an agent comes to this Sacramento REALTOR® with an offer from an invest
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09/18/2012
I received the sweetest email from a Sacramento home seller this morning. She is selling a home and buying at the same time. No easy feat in this real estate market. Many times she called or emailed to say she wanted to take her home off the market, that she wasn't immediately selling, and I enco
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09/18/2012
Why buyers want to roll closing costs into the price of the home is beyond me. Even in a short sale, the buyers often ask the banks to approve closing costs as a credit. But maybe that's because I've always paid my own closing costs because I pay less for the home that way, and it makes more sens
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09/16/2012
Every so often a buyer for homes in Land Park comes along who knows exactly what she wants. She has selected a Land Park agent to represent her because she wants to buy that Land Park agent's particular listing. She feels that the agent who is representing both the seller and the buyer will give
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09/16/2012
Yeah, I am not the only short sale agent stupid enough who could throw together Lady Gaga and a Bank of America short sale counter offer, but I am the only short sale agent who would do it on Active Rain. Oh, wait. Maybe Mary Douglas would do it. But she is far from stupid. She is one of the smar
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09/15/2012
I am ecstatic over the help I get from the Bank of America social media team. These men and women are a fabulous resource when your short sale gets stuck in the mud. Every single short sale agent should know how to send a Tweet to the social media team at Bank of America. I have lost count of how
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09/13/2012
I hate having to explain to my sellers that after we go into contract with a digital signature, they need to duplicate their efforts in order to appease the short sale banks. It's not just the short sale banks, either, it's practically all banks. I was so thrilled to see that Fannie Mae and Fredd
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09/13/2012
It's seems like nobody is happy in the Sacramento real estate market, least of all Sacramento home buyers. This is a very tough market for them. While I'd say this is an excellent time to be a Sacramento listing agent. There are definite perks to my job, I admit. But it's a lousy time to be a Sac
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09/11/2012
I took another short sale listing in Sacramento last night. The sellers seemed somewhat disinterested in the documents they were signing. The just wanted to know where to initial and what date they should write. Now, maybe that's because it was close to dinner time and they were hungry. Or, maybe
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09/11/2012
