Sometimes I write what I call public service announcements (PSAs) and what other people call a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially when those other people are unhappy with my thoughts about a subject near and dear to themselves or my presentation of the facts. Not that it would change my opinio
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11/10/2014
I realize there are some listing agents who don't want to be bothered once a home goes into escrow by having to field calls from other buyer's agents asking how their sale is moving along. They figure the home will close escrow and if it doesn't, well, they'll deal with it at that time. I always
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11/09/2014
While in Roseville yesterday getting the locks changed to a vacant home I'm listing, I also conducted my agent visual inspection and shot photos. During this process, I realized there were no carbon monoxide detectors in the house. My seller lives thousands of miles away. This is why I sometimes
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11/08/2014
One of the things that I have learned over the years of doing Sacramento short sales is how to present a short sale package to the bank so it will be accepted and keep the seller out of jail. I often run into sellers who have their own ideas of how the short sale should be handled and sometimes I
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11/07/2014
There is a huge benefit to being in the real estate business for a long period of time, and it's not just the money nor the recognition. In fact, I don't really care if people don't immediately recognize my name or if they think I am related to the law firm in Sacramento, which I am not. Some peo
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11/06/2014
They say there is always a first time for everything, although I suspect part of that is because we don't always remember the first time. Take last night for example. There we are at the polling place to vote, which is at the Land Park firestation. It's a little wild to see a fire truck that upcl
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11/04/2014
A client is closing her home today in Campus Commons in Sacramento, a home she bought earlier this summer in hopes that a family member would move into it. For a variety of reasons, that didn't happen, and the seller had spent quite a bit of money fixing it up and remodeling. It was pretty enough
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11/04/2014
Earlier in the year I had considered booking a winter vacation this December to New Zealand. I had my sights set on Tasmania. But after much deliberation and investigation, it seems that Tasmania weather is not the best in December, and that's not a perfect place to go alone. Besides, I'd rather
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11/03/2014
I find that Sacramento home buyers generally like to do what everybody else is doing, and they find comfort in numbers, following the herd. When everybody is buying real estate, that's when they are out in full force, competing, negotiating and trying to find that perfect home. When everybody is
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11/02/2014
My new fresh hell of the day (and isn't there always some new fresh hell of the day?) is the fact that we can't seem to close a home in Lincoln Crossing to save the credit union's life. This is a situation in which the buyer's loan-to-value ratio is about 25%. We were supposed to close a week ago
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11/01/2014
