Happy New Year! Just this morning I received an email from a broker in Iowa who has asked if I will accept a listing referral in Natomas. He's not a big broker, just a small independent company who searched the internet for a top Natomas Realtor and found Elizabeth Weintraub. He was astounded I
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12/31/2016
Yes, this Sacramento Realtor is still engaged in her wor-cation in Hawaii, as you can tell by the above photograph. Every day I get out of our vacation house and go somewhere fun. Yesterday, I stopped at a few furniture stores because sometime this year I will be furnishing the house after the se
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12/30/2016
We had a light sprinkling of rain yesterday afternoon for about 15 minutes, but fortunately, most of the rain in Kailua-Kona has stopped. The first 3 weeks of December were unusually wet for this time of year. Not surprising, climate changes are happening everywhere. It's common to get a lot of r
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12/29/2016
There are many agents who take a holiday in December and don't look back at their business. They pass it off on another agent in their office or maybe they don't have any new or old business to contend with when away. Not every agent is a top producer. Some agents are very happy selling a house e
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12/28/2016
Hard to say if it was the excellent company (having my husband join me in Hawaii for Christmas) or the location on the ocean, or the marvelous food or my glass of pinot that made dinner so delightful. Or maybe just the fact I found a suitable parking place and didn't have to circle the area over
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12/27/2016
You can't swing a dead cat in Hawaii without hitting a ukulele player. Oh, where did that expression come from anyway, it's such a horrible thing to say. But I use it because it's amusing, not because I would ever throw a dead cat much less want to watch somebody else do it. The point is the ukul
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12/26/2016
It just isn't Christmas Eve in Kailua-Kona unless you can go snorkeling at Two-Step Beach and stop at The Coffee Shack along the way. At least that was the plan we had in the works for yesterday. We left Kona much later than we intended because my husband was hard at work solving the jigsaw puzzl
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12/25/2016
Now, if you ask my husband, he will say the drive down from the Mauna Kea Summit was the most terrifying, but that's because he wasn't driving. He was putting his foot on the imaginery brake and reminding me about approaching curves. He also brought up the time I drove down the mountainside in Co
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12/24/2016
The sellers contacted me a while back, upset with their existing agent for reasons I didn't fully catch, but the reasons do not matter because I'm not the sort of agent who upsets her clients. Whatever the reason as to why the seller wanted to cancel the listing with his existing agent is really
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12/23/2016
Part of the fun of being on vacation in Hawaii is sampling different restaurants. Last year I spent 3 weeks at the Marriott Waikola and even with walking over to the Kings Shops, I still did not have enough variety. That is not a problem in Kailua-Kona. Lots of tourists stay in this area, althoug
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12/22/2016
