Short commute to downtown Sacramento. If you don't want to take the freeway, you can hop on Folsom Boulevard and take it all the way to downtown. This is a super cute Rosemont home with an open floor plan. Big dining room and family room -- 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. One bath is updated. It has vaul
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09/20/2009
In a perfect world, a buyer's agent submits the buyer's offer to the listing agent; the listing agent sends that offer to the seller, the seller signs and returns the offer to the listing agent who, in turn, forwards the executed contract to the buyer's agent. Yet, in the world of Sacramento real
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09/19/2009
Wells Fargo approved another short sale yesterday for an Elk Grove seller. The negotiator was a chatty guy out of South Carolina who used to live in Sacramento -- on one of the "fish streets" in Rosemont. Very nice guy. I'd like to go on the record as saying that not every negotiator who works fo
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09/18/2009
The problem with some listing status modifiers such as "active short contingent" in the Sacramento MLS -- and other MLS systems around the country -- is that home buyers don't know what they mean. Some agents don't understand the modifiers either. In fact, MetroList abbreviates this modifier as "
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09/17/2009
A reporter from CNBC called me yesterday to talk about selling your home in today's real estate market. She said I blew her away. She had no idea the market in Sacramento was so wild. We talked about home staging, home pricing and home marketing. Apparently, CNBC is doing some sort of fall specia
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09/16/2009
When you're a Sacramento short sale agent, it's easy to immediately recognize other short sale specialists out in the field. It's like we belong to a secret decoder ring club and speak Klingon. You may hear a short sale agent boast, "I have a Phase 2 negotiator now," and you know she's not talkin
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09/15/2009
Retail stores have been hit so hard by this down economy that some retail establishments are offering discounts on top of discounts without the customer asking for it. I dragged my husband to Macy's at the Sacramento Downtown Plaza this weekend to look at sofas and rugs. Since my little fiasco wi
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09/14/2009
One of the things I really like about taking a Sacramento short sale listing is the fact that few sellers expect a listing presentation. Even when I list homes in Land Park, for example -- in situations where sellers are generally not upside down -- many of those sellers follow the market so clos
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09/13/2009
The last time it rained in Sacramento this year was probably in May, but I would not be surprised if it rained this morning. I can see lightning to the west, and the breezes abruptly changed from an almost uncomfortable and muggy heat to much cooler air over the past hour. Plus, dark clouds are r
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09/12/2009
Perhaps it's a Midwestern thing, dating back to my childhood in Minnesota. Whenever my mother needed something in a hurry, she would send us kids down to what she called the "corner grocery store." The store was not located on a corner and was about a mile from our house. But wherever we lived in
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09/11/2009
