Juli Vosmik is right on target with this post, and her advise applies wherever you search. Thanks Juli for allowing me to re-post your great information. Comments are being disabled for this article. Please click through to Juli's blog with your comments. She would love to hear from you. Thanks a
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06/19/2012
INVENTORY WAY DOWN In LOCAL Markets Too. Upland, CA Case in Point. By Brad Rachielles, Upland, CA The national real estate news this morning carried articles decrying the lack of inventory of homes for sale and how competition for these homes is fierce. Because my focus is always on the LOCAL sit
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06/18/2012
May Video Market Update. For the past few years, Market Reports for Upland, Rancho Cucamonga and the surrounding ares has been six long spreadsheet pages of detailed numbers. Surely you must believe as I now do that much of this effort has been lost.... or mostly for my own education. So, encoura
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06/04/2012
Memories are Saluted. By Brad Rachielles It was a long weekend. My wife and I decided to take a relaxing trip to Santa Barbara. The weather was great, the food fantastic and the town was full of visitors enjoying life. As has been our tradition from childhood, we planned to attend a memorial serv
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05/30/2012
It Must Be "Fear". By: Brad Rachielles. As a REALTOR(R), the events of the past few years have concerned me. Arguably, my concerns should have started long before the mid 2000s, but I may not have had this thought at that time (see a comment at the end). Home buying before the bursting of the rea
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05/29/2012
By Brad Rachielles The Seller Prospect That Wanted To Do A Short Sale - Sorry Subtitle: It Doesn't Work That Way. Recently, I got all excited and happy when I received a referral call..... thank you very much. The prospect wanted to sell the present home to do a relocation for personal, not busin
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05/23/2012
April 2012 Real Estate Market Report for Those Who Can't Stand Dry Numbers.... Upland, CA. By Brad Rachielles Watching the local real estate statistics is part of my work. If I don't know the numbers and know what they mean, I probably couldn't make very good recommendations when representing my
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05/02/2012
The question of whether to rent or buy a home seems to be endless. It's a personal, financial and even emotional decision for most and the basis of the financial part is ever changing. I've corresponded with Lyn Sims in the past several weeks about other matters, and have come to respect her opi
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05/02/2012
Spring Cleaning Should Include A Lot of Shredding. Do you have mounds of "OLD" records and files that are no longer needed? Now may be a good time to get rid of thise files and have them shredded securely (and that may be an operative word for businesses like REALTORS) and support a local church
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04/13/2012
Your Listing Photos Don't Have To Look Cattywampus(SP?). It's almost become a comedy to see some of the photos displayed on the MLS. Clearly, some are simply documentary. Many are rushed, and the ones with dirty clothes and unmade beds are simply shameful as well as unprofessional of the agent. T
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04/09/2012