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lockboxes: Home Buyer Requests for Personal Property Should Be in Writing - 05/30/10 10:15 AM
Lockbox day came and went on Saturday. But I didn't have time to collect all of my lockboxes from my closings last week because one of my Land Park / Curtis Park buyers needed me to draft a Request for Repair. Picking up lockboxes falls to the bottom of my priority list when a client calls.
I had tried to remove the lockbox from a certain Sacramento listing the day after closing, but the buyers had locked the exterior screen door. My lockbox was attached to the inside door handle. Usually I put them on the gas meter, as long as … (9 comments)
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lockboxes: No Lockbox Problems on this Short Sale Condo in Cameron Park - 05/18/10 09:46 AM
In this business, if your Monday is brutal, Tuesday is likely to be ten times worse. That seems to be a given. I keep thinking that the real estate business will slow down in Sacramento, but it's only getting more hectic. This week alone I believe I am taking 5 new listings, and that's just the ones I know about at the moment. But I'm fortunate to have closed so many transactions this year that my inventory has room to grow, thank goodness, and I still have enough lockboxes in the trunk of my car to handle the growth.
Lately, I've … (12 comments)
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lockboxes: The Worst Thing That Could Happen to a Real Estate Agent - 01/21/10 09:01 AM
What's the worst thing that could happen to an East Sacramento agent? Or to any real estate agent, for that matter? Well, apart from rolling over a guard rail in the rain. Over the last week, 2 vehicles at different locations slid off the freeway while going around a curve and landed on the road below. They survived, thank goodness.
We've had so much rain and wind in Sacramento; it's like an obstacle course driving through East Sacramento and Land Park -- swerving to avoid downed tree branches, blown over trash cans and unemployed real estate agents angrily stomping in rain … (19 comments)
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lockboxes: Home Buyers Can Tweek Search Parameters by Asking Agents to Include and Exclude Criteria - 12/20/09 11:49 AM
Some people may not know this, but I also manage my homebuying forum on About.com. This is a place where buyers and sellers come to ask questions, which members of my forum and I answer -- and it's also a place where I get a lot of my article ideas for my Home Buying & Selling website.
One of the questions submitted this week was how can a buyer find only those homes with brick exteriors. You never know what type of requirements a buyer might come up with, but I do my best to match criteria. Sometimes, buyers will have … (14 comments)
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lockboxes: What if You Were in the Shower and a Stranger Entered Your Home Through the Lockbox? - 10/19/09 09:06 AM
Usually, the types of phone calls I receive from Sacramento buyer's agents are ripe with questions that are answered in MLS. But I understand that some agents don't print out MLS reports or skim over them so quickly that they miss important data. In an attempt to help them, I generally attach a document to my listings that contains tips on how to write an offer, especially on my short sale listings because there aren't very many Sacramento short sale agents in town.
In the confidential agent remarks, I make reference to the attached document and ask agents to please read … (17 comments)
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lockboxes: Lockbox Day in Sacramento and The Perfect Eyebrow - 10/11/09 09:24 AM
For a fun-filled and relaxing experience, there is nothing in this universe as enjoyable like having half of your face ripped off. Voluntarily. I realize that some members of the opposite sex may not understand this and shake their heads in disbelief that anybody of sane mind would willingly undergo this procedure, but in some ways, men and women are polar opposites. It's what makes the world go around.
I knew that yesterday, after a long day of offer negotiations and yakking on my cell about short sale listings, I would be treating myself to a half-hour of pure torture at … (17 comments)
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lockboxes: Some Agents Don't Read Listings and Some Agents Don't Read Signs - 01/25/09 10:12 AM
A drawback to being a short sale listing agent in Sacramento is the fact that the inventory stays on the market a minimum of three months before closing, which means my lockboxes can't be reassigned every 6 to 8 weeks. In a faster selling market, an agent can take 20 listings and use 10 lockboxes, because as they sell, lockboxes can be removed and reassigned to another home. Not so with short sale listings.
I had no choice yesterday but to sit in the slow moving traffic on Business 80 crossing the American River and hope I could make it in … (11 comments)
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lockboxes: The Number of Missing Sacramento Lockboxes is Rising - 09/03/08 03:54 PM
The question lately is not where is the darn lockbox so much as why is there no lockbox on this home? It's stated "vacant / lockbox" in MLS, yet many agents aren't putting lockboxes on their listings. Do they have any idea how bad it looks to buyers who show up at home after home only to discover the agent hasn't put a lockbox on the house?
It's against the Sacramento MLS regulations to put a contractor's box on these types of listings. If an agent uses a contractor's box, the agent must also supply a Supra lockbox. If not, they … (20 comments)
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lockboxes: Down to the Wire: Cabinets Arrive Tomorrow - 07/24/08 07:55 PM
It's been an exciting day. First, I threw on my sweaty old cut-offs and t-shirt from yesterday, pulled my hair back in a tangled mess and dashed out the door at 6:25 AM. I had to meet a home inspector at 6:30 and let him in to inspect a home in Land Park for my buyers. Riverside Boulevard was backed up, bumper-to-bumper cars, so I took a shortcut zig-zagging through the neighborhood. Jumped out of my car, grabbed my display key and headed for the lockbox. Oh, I had a few showings yesterday, my key said. Hmmm. No time to think … (19 comments)
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lockboxes: Which is Better -- Lockboxes or Appointments? - 01/21/08 07:47 PM
Should a seller require an appointment or will a lockbox inspire more showings? Some sellers are uneasy about giving agents and their buyers access to a home when the sellers are not at home. However, unless a seller is at home during the day, without a lockbox, showings might not happen at all. Homes where access is restricted or require appointments in advance often fall to the bottom of the showing list, especially in buyer's markets when inventory is abundant. If your market has an oversupply of homes for sale, you might want to consider using a lockbox.
In some parts … (25 comments)
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lockboxes: How Lockboxes Work - 01/09/08 09:28 PM
If you've ever wondered about the history of lockboxes, they go back to days long ago forgotten. But the newest lockboxes work digitally. They will record who comes and goes into your home, so you know which agents have had access. Some sellers wonder if lockboxes are necessary, if they work and whether they provide security. The answer is a resounding yes to all of those questions. Moreover, without a lockbox, buyers might never see your home. Especially in buyer's markets, when inventory is high, you want to provide the easiest and most convenient way for buyers to see your home.
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Elizabeth Weintraub, Sacramento Short Sale Agent, Land Park, East Sac, Lyon RE
Sacramento,
CA
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Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate, midtown Sacramento. Selling since 1974. Home Buying Columnist at About.com. Sacramento short sale agent.
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