I just closed an escrow last week for a wonderful seller whom I truly adored. Super sweet and incredibly spunky woman in her 80s who needed to do a short sale. She wrote the most heartfelt hardship letter I have ever read, even if it was quite possibly a little bit calculated, which made it even
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10/21/2013
An agent I greatly admire in Sacramento mentioned this morning that one of her buyers had to cancel an escrow after being in contract for one day. It had been a multiple-offer situation and her buyer had won the bidding process. But then, there was some kind of discrepancy in the contract, a conf
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10/20/2013
Because I rely on my cellphone as a Sacramento real estate agent, I spent a great deal of time this week making sure my phone could perform all of the functions that my former phone so effortlessly could do. I did all of this before I activated the phone. One little problem was the fact the charg
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10/19/2013
There are people in this world who absolutely abhore change. I'm not one of those people. I embrace it and like it when things change. That's one of the reasons I love doing home improvement projects. I think there is room for improvement in all of us and in just about everything. Although, I hav
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10/18/2013
I have not been tracking how many short sales I have sold since 2006, but I do track short sales on my website starting in January of 2010. These are just the short sales in which this Sacramento real estate agent represents the seller, I believe. I don't think I've got very many buyers in that m
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10/17/2013
There are people who believe that real estate agents are the engineers who run the real estate market train in Sacramento, but little could be further from the truth. The only thing a real estate agent can do is adapt to where the train is moving. Home buyers and sellers who understand the market
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10/16/2013
If somebody has nominated me and is now giving me an award for my accomplishments as a Sacramento real estate agent, I should not have to pay for advertising to promote that achievement nor be hounded to buy a plaque. It's even worse when the company is some for-profit venture created solely to e
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10/15/2013
Sometimes my friends ask why I give away all of my secrets as a Sacramentor real estate agent. They say don't I worry that other agents will copy me and do what I do? The answer is no, I don't, because I know they already do. Sure, I see real estate agents try to copy many things I do online; I a
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10/14/2013
It's always hard in muliple offers when a Sacramento home seller chooses one offer and the other offers fall by the wayside. Buyer's agents often write to me and ask what they could have done to have made their buyer's offer better. The answer to that question is pretty simple. It's make your bes
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10/13/2013
You know what -- you never "hear it all" in Sacramento real estate because there is always something much worse than you could have possibly imagined right around the corner. This doesn't make me paranoid, but being cautious and wary can help to soften the blow when a person does something incred
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10/12/2013
