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So, I'm moving........... We have decided to move from our home of 12 years.  We found great renters, my children are excited, and now, where should we go? Do I find a bigger house, smaller house, newer house, fixer upper? Closer to the city, closer to the school, closer to our family activities,...
08/19/2010
I have been working with clients who continually find listings that aren't listed in the local MLS, (usually on a national realtor website). They give me an address, and even tell me the listing office.  I try to find it in my local MLS and I cannot find it. Has this happened to you? My office is...
06/19/2010
Okay, I'm revving up my Facebook, social media 'thing' here....and then I see a blog about "group" pages....have you seen that?  What a great idea.... When it applies to real estate, the idea is find areas within your geographic area, that has a specialty.  For example in my area, we have valley,...
06/17/2010
Well, I did it! I finally broke down and started my own Facebook and LinkedIn pages.  It takes a lot of time to set up, but now that I have it going, I think I will be able to make it work.  Here are some "rules" that I thought of, that I need to live by: 1.  Remember it's purpose.  It is easy to...
06/14/2010
    One of the best listings I had the honor of listing is Sycamore Ranch RV Park, located in beautiful Browns Valley, California along the Yuba River.  It closed last month and is now ready for you, the public, to enjoy. Located 12 miles east of Marysville along HWY 20, Sycamore Ranch is now own...
06/13/2010
As I read many post, Realtors talk of the difficult decision to continue working in real estate full time, go to part time to "get a real job" or quit altogether.  I fortunately am not in a dire strait to make a drastic decision, but I have been weighted down with the disappointing real estate ma...
06/02/2010
I recently had a call from a seller who had been advised by his lending company to short sale his house. He had gone through all the paperwork to do a loan modification, but it wasn't approved, hence the advice. In comes me, a Realtor trying to help this man, he feels he has nowhere else to go, b...
03/01/2010
So here I sit, with my face swollen from poison oak.  It wasn't my fault, I didn't know a weed-waking neighbor sprayed the oils onto my trees and bushes that I was trimming in my own backyard.  Well, doesn't matter how, it just is...which comes to my comparison of poison oak and real estate.... 1...
08/23/2009
I recently decided to begin exploring the world of expireds.  Of course here on AR, there is so much advice for this amazing lead option.  I do understand the "No Call Laws", and wanted to respect the wishes of those who desire not to be called at home with unsolicited phone calls.  I now make it...
09/29/2008
I have been a Realtor now for about a year.  I was a teacher with a teacher's schedule for 14 years (lots of vacation time).  My husband, still a teacher, set up a few short getaways this summer.  I have great support in my office, if anything came up, I was "kept up to date".  My clients were al...
09/01/2008
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