Although I am by nature an extremely optimistic Sacramento real estate agent, which is probably part of the reasons why I seem to do so well, I also realize that I need to stop to consider what kinds of things could go wrong with a purchase offer my seller receives. If there is a way I can lessen
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04/20/2014
Sometimes I share with my Sacramento sellers who will buy their home and sometimes they don't ask, but one thing I do know is there a buyer for every home. I know that without a doubt. No question about it. If a seller has a small yard, for example, that home is perfect for an elderly couple reti
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04/19/2014
I am simply tickled pink to introduce the newest and youngest team member at the Elizabeth Weintraub Team at Lyon Real Estate, Josh Amolsch, Sacramento REALTOR®. When I showed my revised team member page to my husband, he asked if Josh Amolsch would object to being called the "youngest" as though
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04/18/2014
Not only should a real estate agent not let the big things get her down in a real estate transaction -- a short sale with US Bank notwithstanding -- she should not let little things bother her either. People have asked me how an agent can stay positive while wallowing in a sea of negativity. Firs
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04/17/2014
How many things do I do differently as a real estate agent today versus the way I used to sell real estate in 2004? I mean, let's not talk about the last 40 years because I don't have all day here; let's just go back 5 or 10 years. Times have certainly changed over the past few years and, in look
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04/16/2014
The REALTOR® magazine has an interesting story about the agent production fiasco and AgentMatch system that had so many agents up in arms. Agents who didn't want their production known because it was very low and agents who didn't want their production known because it was very high. I don't know
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04/15/2014
You would think affordability is such a simple concept that everybody would grasp it, even first-time home buyers in Sacramento, but they don't. Home buyers often demand to tour homes they can't afford to buy. They do it because they don't know any better or perhaps because they think they do kno
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04/14/2014
The first time I saw BB King perform in person was also, sadly, the last time. It was 1970, and I was asleep in a rain-soaked tent at Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival, somewhere in Illinois. The rain had finally stopped, and it was still dark, probably around 4:30 A.M. I awoke to the familiar lick of
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04/13/2014
I thought of a person this morning whom I often think about, even though this real estate professional died many years ago; his legend lives on in my mind anyway. First, let me admit that I am not a big believer in real estate seminars, probably because I was intimately involved in that god awful
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04/12/2014
I was talking with an agent in my office yesterday who said she is working on a $95,000 condo and a $950,000 home, both in escrow at the same time. She is a lot like me. We don't discriminate. We don't stick our noses in the air and say oh, Charles, we only work with luxury home buyers, and we al
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04/11/2014
