It was a completely freaky accident that when I finally figured out how to attach the iPod (yes, I still carry one of the old ones) to the radio and pressed play, the first song alphabetically was from the REM album Accelerate: Living Well is the Best Revenge. It's a good thing, too, because I wa
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12/11/2014
By the time you are reading this, my husband will have dropped me off at Hawaiian Airlines at the Sacramento airport and I will be in the sky, getting the heck outta dodge before the winter storm. Fortunately, I have used the entire preceding 24 hours to check and double-check that I have every c
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12/09/2014
I feel like I have been packing for my vacation for weeks, yet I have nothing packed except the stuff that's in my head, and I'm leaving shortly for a month. I seem to pay more attention to my business than making certain I have packed enough swimsuits. That's probably because I can always buy mo
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12/09/2014
It was a weird Sunday for purchase offers to be flying into this Sacramento listing agent's email. When I travel on the road (not driving), I'm generally reading my emails on my cellphone and opening attachments, hoping that I don't lose my data connection. I read just so far to reveal the sales
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12/08/2014
Most people would probably not drive 3 to 4 hours to Santa Cruz to catch the Aimee Mann Christmas Show but what are you gonna do when she doesn't come to Sacramento and you would love to see her? Then again, if you've never thought of Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime as a torture song, yo
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12/07/2014
Some home sellers in Sacramento tend to believe that if a buyer tries to cancel a purchase contract after releasing all of their contingencies, that the seller is automatically entitled to the buyer's earnest money deposit, which is not exactly the case. Being entitled to it and getting it are tw
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12/06/2014
Other real estate agents in my office ask how I ever find the time to play an Ingress game on my cellphone when I sell so many homes in Sacramento. They probably do not realize that the cats rule my universe and, apart from intently focusing on my Sacramento real estate business, I don't spend a
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12/05/2014
The sun is peeking out from behind rain clouds, and I have this feeling that if I jump into my car and race over to my new listing in Tahoe Park, that by the time I pull up to the front door the rain in Sacramento will be pouring down. As long as I sit in my car in front of that house it will con
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12/04/2014
This Sacramento REALTOR battled three-for-three yesterday in our torrential downpour; we need rain so desperately that I am just happy to see water falling from the skies and forming puddles in the street. I covered both sides of my territory, too, driving from Land Park to Roseville, then out to
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12/02/2014
As I headed out the door yesterday to list a home in Galt, I had the pleasure of talking with a Sacramento Realtor who, like me, has been in the business for more than 40 years. I think she mixed me up with somebody else because the first question she asked was how is my mother. Dead, was my answ
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12/02/2014
