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After 20 years I think I've probably seen it all when it comes to folks coming into open houses of mine. In the first few open houses there's plenty of neighbors, there's also agents with clients, folks that I think of as "professional" buyers ( those buyers who basically know what they're doing...
04/22/2010
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I had the good fortune in the last few weeks to have a couple of very popular listings here in my community, Foster City, CA 1121 Catamaran and 18 Dory Ln, and one thing became very clear to me while chatting with folks at each of the open houses...there's a whole lot of buyers out there either ...
02/02/2010
OK, maybe it's a little more than being a little out of touch. Maybe it's really a case of burying one's head in the sand. I say that, in all sincerity, without judgement or malice of any kind. I've been guilty more times than I can count of precisely the same thing. It's the human condition. Wh...
01/28/2010
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Fizzling FSBO's Posted by Jim Minkey on December 3rd, 2009 There's one area of real estate that, I have to admit, really fascinates me. That's market of For Sale By Owners that exists out there. Now, we can argue all day long the relative merits, or lack thereof, of selling by yourself and we can...
12/03/2009
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What a year! What a job! So, we get a nice offer on my listing at 9 Lilly Lane in San Carlos, and one night last week I get a call from the buyer's agent who's up at the property meeting his clients and a contractor. He has a couple of simple questions, which I easily answered...and then comes t...
10/01/2009
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There's a new dialog taking place in this area between sellers and their agents upon listing homes for sale. It used to be that it was almost impossible to make a mistake with pricing on a listing. With very few exceptions, no matter what price you put on a place somebody agreed to pay it...or m...
09/10/2009
For years, friends, clients, friends of clients, family of clients and sometimes even clients of friends have called to ask some rudimentary questions about becoming a real estate agent. Usually we get together and have a nice chat and during that discussion I'll usually hear the phrase "I think...
08/20/2009
It's always been sort of common to hear kind of "off" questions at open houses I would hold. Actually, stupid questions really. For the house that's completely empty of all furnishings, "Is the house vacant?" For the fixer upper that needs a new roof, furnace, plumbing, electrical and has a foun...
08/06/2009
Once upon a time, Realtors were important. At least we thought we were! One of the big reasons we thought we were so important is because we had a virtual corner on the market of real estate related information. Anything that was useful when determining the value of a property or to simply help ...
07/21/2009
Last week, my friend Haifa Khoury looked at offers on her listing at 314 Chesterton in Belmont. It's a REO she listed for $500,000...a REAL bargain. There's another listing across the street and down a few doors listed for $725,000. That fact alone was enough to tell me that she was going to get...
06/30/2009
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