There are only so many hours in a day to get things done. Well, I suppose some of you can stay up util 3 AM to finish your homework, but I'm not one of those. Nope, on school nights, and every other night, this Realtor retires early. That's so I can start fresh and early in the morning taking car
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02/28/2017
When the seller told me he had his own home stager in the family, many red flags went up in my mind, and I pretty much tortured him over it, which I now regret. I've just seen too many people think they can stage a home who cannot. So many believe it's just "decorating," and they do not understan
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02/27/2017
It's all about timing in Sacramento real estate. Yesterday, as I juggled responses to multiple counters my sellers generated and discussed the 9 offers we received, I received an offer on a property that had a counter out of its own. It was an usually high activity day for a Saturday. Just prior
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02/26/2017
I have decided that I don't look nearly as naked without makeup as I used to think I did. Even though my eyes seem to sink into my face, I don't care anymore. I suspect that means I'm officially moving into old age and accepting it. Hey, I've got a milestone coming up in a few months; I will turn
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02/25/2017
I thought I would mix up some of the blogs today about my new listings this month. It can be less interesting sometimes to read solely about square footage or numbers of bedrooms and baths, when there is also a good story behind-the-scenes that goes along with it. I know people like to read about
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02/24/2017
The upside to this short sale of a remodeled home in Foothill Farms is the fact there is not much work left to do on the interior of the house. It features 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and has had a lot of work done inside. You might want to repaint the bath, but the rest of the home is attractive. There
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02/23/2017
That's my husband above talking to our guide Gabriel from Journey Mexico. Sometimes you get really lucky on a trip and you connect with a guide who is brilliant, and Gabriel was that guide for us in Mexico City. The guide assigned to us to see the butterflies in the mountains of Mexico and the gu
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02/22/2017
Shooting photos of millions of swarming butterflies is a lot harder than I thought it would be. They move too fast to capture wings in flight unless you use the right settings on your camera, and finding those settings while also framing the photograph is tough. At one point, as I was lying on th
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02/20/2017
The most exciting day of the week for me is generally Friday mornings. It's when the bulk of my new listings tend to go "live" in MLS. I often enter my listings prior to our "on market" date. I want to see what they look like when published, rearrange the photos, if necessary; double check the in
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02/19/2017
While it's easy to say our Sacramento housing market trends are seasonal, you really can't ignore the dramatics and numbers in Sacramento real estate today, nor completely explain the swing by seasons. Our January started off with a big bang this year in terms of buyer activity, but seller activi
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02/18/2017