for sale sign: How Should a Sacramento Home Buyer Deal With the Realtor Sign?
- 10/18/15 01:58 AM
A lot of pranks and whatnot seem to go on in Elk Grove lately, and I'm not really sure why. A few months back, some vandals swiped a For Sale sign out of a yard and hauled it over to the Elk Grove High School campus on Elk Grove-Florin. I suppose it beats burning down homes in Elk Grove. Another prankster stole a sign in the same neighborhood near Bond Road, and that sign was recovered from a neighbor's yard, probably because the little thugs didn't know what to do with it. These signs panels and accompanying riders are big and are (11 comments)
for sale sign: This Is Why Your Neighbor's For Sale Sign Is Falling Over
- 07/04/12 01:03 AM
Neighbors wonder what's going on when For Sale signs stay forever in the yard. What's wrong with that Sacramento short sale? Because of the changing demographics in neighborhoods over the past 5 to 7 years, many neighbors don't know each other anymore. So, they can only speculate what's happening in their community, especially among the short sales and foreclosures. The truth is there is probably nothing wrong with that short sale house. People might think it's the bank that is being stubborn when it's just as likely to be the buyer who is causing the problem. How do I know this? (9 comments)
for sale sign: Call First, Lockbox: What Does this Mean for a Sacramento Listing?
- 04/21/12 12:42 AM
My sellers know that I track activity, all the comings and goings at their home. That's one of the reasons to use a lockbox. The little infrared gizmo beams all agent access info directly to a website for me. As a Sacramento short sale agent, I follow up on my listings. I email agents who show and ask if they have questions. It gives me an excellent way to obtain buyer feedback for my sellers as well. When a seller of a new short sale listing emailed to say he had an evening showing yesterday, I looked up the agent information (7 comments)
for sale sign: If You Wanna Know Who is Responsible for Fixing that Fence, Go Look in the Mirror
- 01/12/12 03:06 AM
All agents get these kinds of phone calls. You can't sell short sales in Sacramento without hearing when something awful happens. If a house is vacant in a targeted neighborhood, odds are something terrible will happen. Somebody will swipe the AC unit out of the yard or kick in the door to steal appliances. Every so often they go so far as to cut off the lockbox. That's hard to do because I've done it myself with a reciprocating saw. It took me a whole 20 minutes, with a lot of vibration and noise. Why the listing agent left his lockbox (5 comments)
for sale sign: Can't Afford Land Park But Want to Buy an Affordable Home in Sacramento?
- 08/05/11 03:16 AM
For the first time in ages, I had a buyer ask me yesterday how much his monthly payment would be if he bought my listing. He kinda threw me off guard because I wasn't expecting it. Generally, by the time a buyer calls, he or she has already spoken to a mortgage broker and received a preapproval letter. But this is California, after all. This is the land where buyers hop in the car to drive 2 blocks to the grocery store, spot a For Sale sign, and decide on the spur of the moment to buy a house. If this (6 comments)
What is wrong with the world? What is wrong with people? Those are fundamental questions that many of us ask every day, especially those of us who call ourselves a Sacramento short sale agent. Two things I want to say about this. The first is a seller in Land Park emailed me yesterday because he received a nasty anonymous letter. No return address in a plain white envelope addressed to him personally. It was about the For Sale sign in his yard. You know who can find the name of a seller very easily? Any subscribor to MLS. Any real (8 comments)
for sale sign: Is it Safe to Put a Lockbox on Your Home?
- 05/27/10 03:01 AM
I suspect I will get flack for this, but I'm gonna say it anyway. Is it too much to expect agents to read? Is that an unrealistic expectation? The two most often overlooked and information-worthy items in a MLS listing are the showing instructions and the confidential agent remarks. Yet, I know that some agents seem to skim through MLS listings without reading them. Although I attach documents to most of my listings -- documents that generally provide crucial information to a buyer's agent -- I don't get my knickers in a twist if agents don't open them. In a recent (14 comments)
for sale sign: It's Not Always Wise to Mix Friendship With Business: Sometimes Agents Should Back Off
- 11/15/09 01:01 AM
Whenever my neighbor goes on vacation, she asks me to watch her house and pick up the mail from her front steps. This is such a quaint custom in Land Park -- throwing mail on the porch when there's too much or it's too big to stuff into the mail slot. Mail carriers in other parts of Sacramento often stick oversized mail inside the screen door, but not here. Our mail is tossed on the porch like a dead squirrel. When my neighbor's husband was killed suddenly in a tragic car accident on the W-X freeway, my husband and I were (158 comments)
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