I suspect many real estate professionals are left scratching their heads lately over the condition of the Elk Grove Housing market. It's kind of squirrely. The market is always kind of squirrely simply by the fact we're talking about real estate, especially real estate in California, which is unh
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10/21/2014
I was reading about some stand-up comedian this weekend who made the statement that he is not a foodie, he is an eatie, which made me laugh. Not as hard as I laughed when I went to Walgreens and tried to pay for my flu shot by writing on the screen with a pen instead of depressing the keypad, but
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10/20/2014
It looks like I will have to take my poor stubbed toe and go to the grocery store today. The horrors. Grocery shopping is not something I do. My husband does it, but he's in Chicago visiting relatives and if I don't want to deal with take-out, I will have to step into a grocery store and wander a
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10/19/2014
I work at home in Land Park in Sacramento on a big-screen television monitor. It's actually a TV that we bought as a backup when our 60-inch went out. My husband and I had stared at each other in disbelief, that no, no, it can't be that the only other television in our house is a black-and-white
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10/18/2014
Every once in a blue moon, I run across a home in Sacramento that is not a good candidate for an open house, but that's pretty rare. For example, a bad candidate for an open house in Sacramento might be a home that is too messy and not in open house condition, or situated in a neighborhood where
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10/17/2014
I felt really bad for these home buyers in Sacramento who just could not get their act together to buy a home. They ended up writing at least 3 counters to buy a home. I explained to the buyer's agent what the seller wanted, but sometimes buyers don't listen to their agents or they think that the
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10/16/2014
What Apple doesn't make clear with the new iPhone 6 is you need to remove the sim card from your old iPhone 5 and transfer it to your new phone, which you can't do when you're on the phone talking to your service provider. Right in the midst of trying to do this before retiring for the evening, I
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10/15/2014
I've noticed that when some of the more challenging real estate transactions close, all of the horrible problems that were once associated with them tend to dissipate and our recollection becomes a bit a faded. Or at least it does with me. I recall transactions not being half as bad as they actua
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10/14/2014
I managed to scrape away a little extra time Friday afternoon to work on my article for About.com and finish my weekly homebuying newsletter on my homebuying website a day early. Yay. This freed up time on Saturday afternoon so I could drive over to Arden Fair in Sacramento to make an exchange at
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10/13/2014
After a fun evening of dining on the patio at Ella to celebrate "cows and burgundy" last night -- a last-minute impulsive decision we made just before the dinner hour -- we spotted a band playing on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento as we walked to our car. I noticed there was hardly nobody
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10/12/2014
