I have been to many places in the wilderness that have experienced wildfires before and, in some areas, like Yellowstone National Park, for example, fires are sometimes necessary to restore balance and produce seeds to grow more trees. That is not really the case in Anderson, California, where I
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08/31/2015
Some people have this skewed impression of me, like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, when I stay at places out of my element, but you know what? I have hiking shoes. I dress appropriately, mostly. It's a real treat to live like somebody else and not myself. I live with myself and my ways of doing things
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08/30/2015
We do not exist in a vacuum and the world does not revolve around us, but tell that to some Sacramento Realtors. I may try to explain that we can't arbitrarily change the terms of our California Residential Purchase Agreement, but having a buyer's agent stick her fingers into her ears and hum to
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08/29/2015
To get a Known Traveler number and fly with those privileges to other countries without all the hassles of the traveling masses, if you live in Sacramento, you've got drive to San Francisco. This is a project I have on the back burner for the next time my husband and I decide to drive into the Ci
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08/28/2015
Some of you know I have been in the middle of rebuilding and updating my website for a few months, and I apologize that you may happen to know any of that because it hasn't been a fun process for me, which means I might not have been a tremendously delightful person to be around (but my husband i
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08/27/2015
In this day and age, there are still Sacramento buyer's agents who don't stop to read the signs that their buyer is a flake. I suppose in their defense they are simply happy the buyer is working with them and willing to buy a home. If they buy a home, the buyer's agent gets paid, and has performe
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08/26/2015
The thing about working in real estate in Sacramento is my days are filled with real estate. I'm very focused. I work at least 12 hours a day straight. I usually read the Sacramento Bee over yogurt in the morning, but I don't watch TV news and generally don't religously comb online news sites; pl
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08/25/2015
Most of the time when I take a vacation, unless a client is an avid reader of my personal blog, they don't know that I am gone. They think I am still in Sacramento because I handle negotiation of offers for their homes, and I prepare counter offers that I upload online for signature, and I answer
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08/24/2015
Remember Casey Kasem, geez who named that guy, and his Top 40 list? When I was a kid, I would take the bus from south Minneapolis to downtown, 7th and Nicollet, and go to Dayton's to buy the top 45 record of the week. I would also peruse the top 40 songs and pick up the list, which I could then c
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08/23/2015
I consider myself very lucky to have developed a skill that allows me to step back from transactions and look at the situation more objectively. It helps that I close a lot of homes, not only because it makes me objective when there is absolutely zero internal conflict over losing an escrow, but
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08/22/2015
