As long as it's not further than 90 minutes away, I can sell that short sale for you. The question is whether I will drive wherever you are, and I might not. I have sold short sales for sellers I have never met. I have sold short sale homes I have never seen, although I did send another agent to
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12/11/2011
Today I would like to talk about a Bank of America Cooperative Short Sale. This is an under utilized program offered by Bank of America for sellers of short sales. In some states, such as Florida, it's really ramped up. But in others like California, especially in Sacramento, there are very few r
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12/10/2011
Some people are so busy being a pompous ass that they can't listen when you try to tell them good news. They want to hear the sound of their own voice and not yours. If they would just quiet down for a moment, they might find out important information about a Sacramento short sale. But this is th
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12/09/2011
I was over at the Med Center yesterday listing a house. It's a short sale, like many in Sacramento. As I was walking through the home, doing my agent visual inspection, my phone rang. I'm always a bit conscious when I'm in a vacant house and talking on my cell because I tend to pace the floor whe
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12/08/2011
Closing escrow in December is a tough time of the year. Right now, many of my short sale approval letters call for a closing in January, which seems to work out better all around for sellers and buyers. It doesn't work out so well for real estate agents and mortgage brokers. That's because many o
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12/07/2011
Every so often, I write a controversial blog on my homebuying website, which I am contracted by the New York Times to do for About.com. Being a little bit of a troublemaker, sometimes I provoke people. But when I do, they don't respond. When I don't, they go wild. Some of the responses astonish m
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12/06/2011
It would be nice if things worked exactly the way they are supposed to work, but they don't. Like this morning, I pressed the button to turn on my cellphone and nothing happened. You know the definition of insanity, right? Doing the same thing over and over and getting the same result? I pressed
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12/05/2011
If you don't offer list price for that short sale, does the seller have to take your offer? If you are looking to buy a short sale in Sacramento, that answer is obviously no. However, there are some buyer's agents in town who might tell you differently; however, I'm sorry to say, they would be wr
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12/04/2011
I was sitting at a client's dining room table in Elk Grove yesterday when the news hit. I had just handed the seller his MARS document and had explained the seller's right to cancel the short sale listing at any time -- which seems to reassure sellers and make them feel more comfortable -- and I
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12/03/2011
I have solved several online woes this week. Because my life is basically online these days, what I do online has a great effect on me. But there are people who dismiss the online world in its entirety. Who did I read yesterday who said the internet was nothing but air? Oh, yeah, Ray Bradbury. Di
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12/02/2011
