As a veteran Sacramento real estate agent, I have an uncanny ability to look up the information about a short sale home listing online and determine whether it is likely to close escrow. It's not like I have a crystal ball or anything, but I've got experience and it's an experience I'm happy to r
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08/11/2014
Mostly I write my blogs for the public and my own team members, but any agent can feel free to pick up a point and own it. It's OK for consumers, too. There are really no secrets in real estate, just time-tested things that work and make for a better transaction. Over the years, I have certainly
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08/10/2014
I contribute to a lot of nonprofits because I believe it's important for people to support causes we believe in and to give what we can. What is not really appreciated by me is when I make a contribution and the next thing I know my name is sold to a bazillion other nonprofits and I get flooded w
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08/09/2014
This is not Montezuma Valley, and we real estate agents are not meeting up with Zillow and Trulia at high noon in the middle of a dusty street to shoot it out. Dogs are not whimpering and running for cover. Kids are not timidly peeking out from behind lace curtains. There is absolutely nothing go
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08/08/2014
No matter what else I do, I have to go see my doctor twice a year to have blood extracted. My cats get the same thing but they don't have to do it every year much less twice a year. It's amazing what medical science can learn from studying the stuff that makes up your blood. I look at each catego
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08/07/2014
The same guy who once told me that controlling real estate was all that mattered, closing on the deal, even if it's above market value, is still a tremendous step in the right direction because you own it, is the same guy who earned fame through no-money-down seminars and urged buyers to search h
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08/05/2014
When buyer's agents call to ask questions about my Sacramento area listings, I try to give them as much information as possible to entice an offer from their buyers. Informed buyers and their agents tend to produce better offers. I think it's important for a buyer to know what they're buying. But
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08/05/2014
Did you know that Roger Ebert once stopped the presses in 1963 to pull a piece of advertising that was insensitively placed near to a story about John F. Kennedy's assassination? It was an illustration of a turkey with a gun pointed at its head. And Roger Ebert said no, as editor of his college n
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08/04/2014
Without really focusing on distressed sales, I seem to have become rather proficient at extracting top dollar for fixer homes in Sacramento, in particular by selling probate homes and short sales that need work. In a short sale, you can pretty much be guaranteed the bank will run it's own BPO and
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08/03/2014
Oh, I know that the real estate seminar business is brimming with courses, classes and designations for real estate agents about how to work with elderly home sellers and buyers. The elderly is a targeted class for many reasons, just like GenYers are a hot topic. But I don't think you need a clas
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08/02/2014
