Mother Lode Lake Tulloch Area Real Estate Blog

Wow.  We had such a response to our "Case of the Missing Wife" post we thought we'd go back to our "case" file and give you another.  It's just as bizarre.  One of our agents had a listing where you had to climb (literally) a hundred rickety wooden stairs to get to the home.  It goes without sayi...

Here's another memorable escrow experience submitted by Karen Pawloski, Transaction Coordinator, in the Sonora office: I was working at First American Title Company as a Junior Escrow Officer at the time this occurred. We had a home in escrow. The house was pretty run down and a local contractor ...

Just when you think you've got the toughest clients on earth, listen to what Don Pucilowski of the Sugar Pine Realty office in Coulterville, CA says about a memorable escrow experience he had:At one time I had a very small house listed in the Lake Don Pedro Subdivision that I had an acceptable of...

If there's anything true about working in real estate, it's the need for marketing.  And when it comes to marketing, you can't help but think of the newspaper.  We all put ads in the newspaper.  Right?  But is newspaper marketing the best investment of a realtor's or broker's dollar?  In the Neth...

Learn all you need to know to become a Real Estate professional. Sugar Pine Realty is now linked to courses online made available through Rockwell Institute. With just a click of the mouse, you can take the Real Estate Principles course which will prepare you for California's real estate salesper...

Sugar Pine Realty/GMAC now offers the opportunity to test your buying and selling skills with it's Real Estate Simulator. Whoever thought that in the privacy of your own home you could find out that a career in Real Estate was just the thing for you? Give it a try. You just might be a perfect fit...

I don't know if you've had the chance to read what two of our own think about the local real estate market in the coming year.  Coy Knapp and Mike Brennan (along with Betsy Hurst-Younger of Century 21 Wildwood) were recently interviewed by Liz Garone of the Modesto Bee.  Among other things, Coy b...

Other blogs are doing it.  And so on this day where we honor the memory of one of the greatest civil rights leaders our country has ever known, I thought I should, too. I've included a link to a video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. And I was thinking, "How could this pos...

At Sugar Pine Realty/GMAC in Sonora, California, we're committed to keeping up on the latest technology that can help promote our business and keep us relevant in the community we serve.  One idea for relevancy I came across on YouTube.  Have you heard about this company?  Sure you have.  They ar...