Stephanie Greenberg's (stephsellshomes) Blog

Here are some tips for First Time Home Buyers.  Buying your first home can be intimidating, stressful, confusing and most of all it should be fun! #1  Tip is to get pre-qualifed for a mortgage from a good recommended lender.  Ask friends and family or your Realtor to recommend one to you.  The fi...

Motivated Seller, well you don't say.  I ran across this in the agent remarks of our local MLS today and I really laughed out loud.  I said to myself, really, their motivated, gee is that why they listed their house?  I love it especially when it is on a short sale listing.  Yes, they are motivat...

Yes, 3 more contracts in escrow due to Docusign!  !)   I have a buyer serving our country in Iraq right now who is buying a home from me so it makes it slightly hard to meet to sign contracts and disclosures.  He has signed everything through docusign and it has made this very easy and painless f...

I received an interesting phone call yesterday, from a buyer who was looking at one of our bank owned properties in Fresno CA.  She said, "Stephanie, my name is Jane and I do not appreciate my picture being taken, my cars picture and license plate being photographed" I asked if she was a Realtor ...

Just received this email from BofA.  Very exciting news!  BofA Short Sales - Now You Can Substitute a New Buyer for One Who Walked Without Restarting. As an example of our commitment to improving the short sale process, Bank of America now allows real estate agents to submit a backup offer on a t...

Unfortunetly no where in California is on this list. To find cities with the most jobs and lower costs of doing business, you'll have to venture to the heartland, according to Forbes' 13th annual Best Places of Business list. Eighty percent of the top 25 regions on Forbes' list this year are from...

Using Docusign makes life easier for buyers, sellers and especially Realtors.  I have been using Docusign for the past 3 or 4 years and I love it!  Docusign is an electronic signature software.  I use it to send contracts to buyers to sign, istings to sellers to sign and disclsoures for both.  I ...

On a short sale, who does the arms lenght affavadit pertain to?  I was reading a blog on another site and there is a BofA short sale where the Realtor is representing both the buyer and seller.  The seller happens to be her sister.  It is unknown if this was disclosed up front to the sellers lend...

Today I visited my "Aqua Office", where the real work gets done.  Yep, that's right, the aqua office is my pool.  I did some paperwork, computer work, posted to Craigslist and finished up around 2:00 so I decided to visit my aqua office since I did not have any clients scheduled for the afternoon...

I ran across this quote today and felt it was very meaningful and wanted to share. As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What...