My regular banter and joking aside, this pool home in Elk Grove will drive homebuyers crazy in droves like thirsty grasshoppers during a drought. It's one of those homes that when you first view it as an Elk Grove real estate agent, you know its incredible appeal. It hits you between the eyes. It
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07/11/2014
The thing about short sales is what was true yesterday is not necessarily true today as rules change, and the rule about buying a home again after a short sale is making a dramtic shift come August 15th, 2014. This is the date when Fannie Mae says it will is changing the requirements for a buyer
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07/10/2014
An agent told me a few days ago about a dismal way a home in Elk Grove was left after an agent showed it to his client. She wanted to make sure that I didn't blame her for it, I suppose, or maybe she was just being a good Samaritan, which is what I prefer to believe. I do the same thing and call.
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07/09/2014
How I could go to Maui and be completely unaware that it is 3 hours behind us in Sacramento is a puzzler. But when you think about it, I generally only go to the islands in the winter. In the winter, Hawaii is not on daylight-saving time, so it's only a 2-hour difference. I imagine there are many
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07/08/2014
While I am away in Maui, my husband did the most incredible thing for me. He texted me a photo of my desk at home while I was lounging on the beach with Barbara. You might say, hey, what were you doing with a cellphone on the beach, and I would say that what happens in Maui stays in Maui. Besides
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07/07/2014
The Wailea resort area in Maui is a place where one could dine out every night for 3 weeks and always go to a new restaurant. Although, once you find a few restaurants that you like, it might make more sense to try other dishes than to continually seek out new restaurants. It's also an enjoyable
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07/06/2014
The best tip I can give you if you're taking the Road to Hana tour while in Maui is don't sit in the last corner seat on the bus, but you probably already know that one. One of the big highlights for me on the trip was the visit to the grave of Charles Lindbergh. It was odd because we drove past
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07/05/2014
I am not sure how much in the way of 4th of July fireworks and celebrations we will see today since we are in Maui. It's not like the natives from this island fought for independence from the British. Nobody has ever said that to see the real America you need to go to Hawaii. I don't see anything
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07/04/2014
There are certainly people in this world who take at face value what they are told and accept whatever news as their fate. Then, there are people who say, whoa, wait a minute, let's look at other available options and see if we can do something differently. I don't know if it's that the first set
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07/03/2014
When we go down to the beach at The Fairmont in Maui, we need to sign out an umbrella. I am not certain where they think we might run off to carting a really heavy beach umbrella, but they have cabana boys who will set up the umbrellas for you and weight them in place with sandbags, after attachi
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07/02/2014