What is it about those Bank of America HAFA short sales that make you want to poke out your eyeballs? You know what they say about insanity, right? Insanity is when you do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Well, I am not insane because I know when I accept a HAFA short sa
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10/11/2012
I've been receiving a lot of calls this week to price homes in Sacramento. Last week it was listing appointments for short sales, and this week it's listing appointments with sellers who have equity. Everybody has a different reason to sell, and those reasons to sell, believe it or not, can enter
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10/09/2012
I track all of my pending sales and closed transactions in Excel. The buyers go in a different spot, and I count them differently. I track the sellers separately because the bulk of my real estate business in Sacramento is listing homes for sale, representing sellers. It doesn't matter if it's a
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10/09/2012
I received a very strange email yesterday from a guy who wants to sell his home in the Sacramento area. He said he was referred to me by two very good friends, both of whom I had sold homes for in the past. They were very happy with my performance and had nothing but good things to say about me,
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10/08/2012
How many offers do you have? I can't count the number of times I answer my phone and am asked that question. First, I don't know which property the agent or buyer is asking me about because they don't identify it. Second, what difference does it make? What bloody difference does it make? Are you
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10/07/2012
How many HUDs does it take to close a Bank of America HAFA short sale? How about 25? Yup, this short sale required 25 HUDs, 3 final HUDs at closing. There probably wasn't more than 10 line items on that HUD. Ever. Not even from the beginning. But the Bank of America third party vendors in a HAFA
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10/06/2012
Should a Land Park agent represent two buyers for the same Land Park home? I imagine this is a dilemma often faced in sellers markets, like the market we have in Sacramento at the moment: little inventory and many home buyers. How does an agent deal with this? A real estate agent doesn't want to
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10/04/2012
This Sacramento short sale agent began negotiating and closing Bank of America Cooperative Short Sales almost the day I discovered them a few years ago. They are my absolute favorite kind of short sale to do. The Cooperative Short Sale process is pretty straight forward -- no financials, no hards
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10/04/2012
Carbon monoxide detectors. Those are 3 words I am pretty tired of hearing, yet I know those days are not numbered, and I will continue to hear about carbon monoxide detectors for years to come. It's become part of the job of being a Sacramento real estate agent. I should buy stock in First Alert.
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10/02/2012
Home buyers in Sacramento are struggling. No question about it. It's difficult to buy a home in a seller's market regardless of the type of financing a home buyer is utilizing, but CHDAP loans can present even more obstacles. I have closed short sales with home buyers who have utilized CHDAP fina
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10/02/2012
