Ain't it the truth? If you want your real estate business to explode overnight, just go on vacation. What can happen a few days before Christmas, you may ask? Oy. But between my laptop, my iPAD and my Smartphone, I am never without communication of some sort. Unless, of course, I leave my phone
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12/21/2011
You might not believe a cat swears, but that sweet innocent face is misleading. This is Space Commander Jackson in his space capsule. And he has a word for some of those Sacramento short sale agents. It's two words, actually, and I can't repeat them. I told him you get further with honey than y
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12/20/2011
Screaming that you're mad as hell and you're not gonna take it anymore won't get you anywhere. It doesn't solve a thing. The guy who screamed that speech died from a heart attack in 1977. If you want to end up like Peter Finch, just keep screaming. Because you're gonna end up there anyway, dead,
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12/19/2011
I spent most of yesterday working on my 2012 Real Estate Predictions for About.com. This article should have been written and posted more than a month ago, but I've been pretty swamped with Sacramento short sales lately. I knew if I didn't get this published online before I go on vacation, I woul
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12/18/2011
I get a lot of emails about buying and selling homes in Land Park. That's because I live in Land Park, and I specialize in Land Park. Out of any neighborhood in my four-county Sacramento area, I know the various Land Park neighborhoods the best. I do so much in Land Park that I am Zillow Land Par
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12/17/2011
I've been receiving an inordinate number of short sale approval letters lately. It's really odd for this time of year. For some reason, lenders must be wanting to move into the new year with a big bang. I could see a bank pushing for a closing by year end, but pushing to close next year is peculi
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12/16/2011
Some sellers strip homes when they move. It's not just the stripping of foreclosures that causes problems in a Sacramento real estate transaction, although those situations can make it difficult for a buyer to get a loan. And the insurance companies, I hear, are pursuing previous owners who have
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12/15/2011
In the interest of time and my personal sanity, there are some emails I don't open. Just delete. I do it based on the title of the email. Like this morning, I received, "Open House in Del Dayo." Another was "Critical Eye Home Inspection." My favorite: "Sudden Values." Into the trash. But in the
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12/14/2011
To learn about short sales, you have to work short sales yourself. You can't just sell a home and hope some third-party negotiator or some agent in your agent's office will do the short sale negotiation. Going that route is cutting a supposed short sale agent short and cutting her seller short, t
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12/13/2011
Because of my volume of Sacramento short sale listings, I talk to a lot of real estate agents in Sacramento. I also get a huge number of offers every month. I see stuff that you would not believe, and there is no sense talking about it because it's true in any profession. You've got winners and l
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12/12/2011
