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metrolist: MetroList Leads My Priority Worst Rankings for the Day - 05/27/12 08:35 AM
Which would you rather wake up to? Rebuild your email database or cat puke? It's a tough decision, but I think I'm gonna go with ishy, squishy cat puke between the toes. I try to keep my deleted emails under control but that danged Equator No Reply fills it up quickly.
That's because Equator now sends an email to say I have an email in Equator. It used to send the email content. That was pretty cool because I could read what it was about. It doesn't do that anymore. And every time an email is generated in Equator, I get … (5 comments)
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metrolist: The Market Should Bring Out the Best in Agents and Not the Worst in Us - 04/02/12 08:36 AM
When the market tanks, agents get edgy. That's no big surprise. Agents tend to get their knickers in a twist when they see their income swirling into an abyss. How will they eat? How will they pay their own mortgage? Will they still be a real estate agent next year or will they take up camp sleeping under a bridge? Real questions. Real problems. But don't beat up on each other, for crying out loud.
I cannot begin to count the number of conversations I've had lately with agents who find it difficult to carry on a phone conversation using their … (12 comments)
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metrolist: Will a Buyer's Agent Tell a Buyer Not to Buy Her Dream Home Because the Agent is Not Paid Enough? - 02/28/12 07:23 AM
The thing about being a Sacramento short sale agent is the surprises just keep coming. No matter that I've been in the business for more than 35 years, I still haven't heard it all. Even though I've been selling short sales pretty much exclusively going on 7 years. See, one of the reasons I write this blog is because there is an abundance of new stuff every single day to blog about. There's always something horrible happening. It's the way of the short sale, grasshopper.
For starters, all of my listings contain verbiage in MLS that discloses to buyer's agents the … (7 comments)
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metrolist: Why Would Bank of America Hire a BPO Agent Without the Tools to Work in Sacramento? - 07/09/11 10:34 AM
I will do just about anything to sell a Sacramento short sale. Some days, I feel like Cal Worthington. I would eat a bug. Did you know that Cal Worthington just got remarried for the third time? Ha. I thought he was dead. I would stand on my head to sell a Sacramento short sale. Whatever somebody needs, I'll do. I want the transaction to close. You can't be a Sacramento short sale agent without working extremely hard and doing unseemly things that you would never in a million years have to do in a regular real estate deal.
So, yesterday, … (16 comments)
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metrolist: Don't Let MetroList Swipe Your Listing Photographs - 02/16/11 10:51 AM
When I woke up this morning, I did not know what day it was. It was still dark and my husband was out of bed. That meant even though I thought it might be Saturday, it wasn't. Was it Monday then? Have you ever had those days when you have absolutely no handle on time reference? It wasn't Monday because that would have meant yesterday was Sunday and yesterday was . . . Tuesday! Aha. Today is Wednesday.
Now that I have solved the biggest obstacle of the day, here is a photo of my kitten, Jackson. There's a big difference … (8 comments)
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metrolist: Mac Users Rejoice: Sacramento MLS Entered the 20th Century This Week - 05/01/10 10:15 AM
Friday was the wrong day for techno glitches. First, ZIPforms would not recognize data fields on the signature lines. This means all those home buyers scrambling for the home buyer tax credit had to manually insert the date on their contracts. I thought I'd receive more offers on my listings than I received from buyers hoping to get into contract by April 30th. I managed to put another Sacramento short sale into contract yesterday but an offer on an Elk Grove short sale isn't likely to pan out.
Second, MetroList, which is our Sacramento MLS, quietly announced it finally could be … (0 comments)
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metrolist: The Last Sacramento Short Sale Agent to Become a Free Dog - 02/16/10 09:28 AM
Two things in this universe that mean the most to me (outside of family and pets) are my MLS access and my Display Key. For what seems like an eternity now, I've been using a token, some screwy little device that continually changes a series of 6 digits, which I have to enter into a security box as my final step to access MLS. When MetroList first came out with this token, I discovered that it was possible to sign on to MLS without it by entering an emergency security word.
Every time I signed on without the token, I'd get … (10 comments)
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metrolist: Some Short Sale Promoters Push Folks to the Edge With Short Sale Spam - 11/23/09 09:41 AM
My husband laughs at Sacramento drivers who, upon leaving the vehicle, turn around and point the key remote at the car to lock it. That's because some people think it works like a TV remote, which emits infrared signals to the TV, but it doesn't. It sends its signal by radio, through the air. So, you don't need to face the vehicle to lock it. Although, I admit that I do look at the car, just to make sure the lights flash, which tells me it is definitely locked.
Hey, where would we be in modern society without our gadgets?
Take … (12 comments)
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metrolist: In This Countrywide Short Sale, It Could Be Much Worse Than It Is - 11/19/09 09:33 AM
I don't have any problem with multi-tasking except when facing certain types of death-related circumstances. While some people can't walk and chew gum at the same time, I routinely multi-task. It's often the only way to get things done during the day.
For example, I might be brushing my teeth while talking on my cell. It's easy. You can do it, too. You just move the Jawbone off your chin so it doesn't transmit the sound of robust brushing and talk with your mouth full of toothpaste. So what if some toothpaste dribbles down your shirt? It's a small price to … (5 comments)
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metrolist: Sacramento Home Buyers Are Confused About Active Short Contingent Listings - 09/17/09 08:41 AM
The problem with some listing status modifiers such as "active short contingent" in the Sacramento MLS -- and other MLS systems around the country -- is that home buyers don't know what they mean. Some agents don't understand the modifiers either. In fact, MetroList abbreviates this modifier as "active short cont," which seems to add to the confusion. People wonder are they talking about writing a contract on a short sale? What does it mean?
I uncheck this status when I set up automatic MLS listings for my prospective home buyers. But, then they pop around other web sites and email … (9 comments)
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metrolist: Sacramento Home Sellers: What Happens if Your Lockbox Fails? - 02/22/09 09:59 AM
Last week an agent called because she could not gain access to conduct a home inspection on one of my vacant short sale listings. The sellers had already moved out of town. Usually I try to get an extra key from my sellers, just in case an agent breaks a key in the lock, but I had no extra key for this listing.
She told me the lockbox wouldn't open. Do you know what happens when a Supra lockbox in Sacramento fails? I didn't, so I called the Sacramento Board of Realtors. (Our lockboxes sell for $115 each, so they're not … (25 comments)
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metrolist: Sacramento Home Sellers' Privacy Violated by a Buyer's Agent - 02/06/09 02:20 PM
A Sacramento home seller called me yesterday to complain that when he came home from picking up his children, he discovered strangers had entered his home without permission. The fact that the intruders were a buyer's agent and buyers wasn't readily clear, and my client was understandably freaked out.
I promised him I would put the agent on notice that he is not permitted to enter a home simply because he can spot a lockbox on the gas pipe. He is required to check MLS showing instructions. On this particular listing, the showing instructions say to call the seller's cell before … (75 comments)
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metrolist: A Fine 2009 Hardly Describes the Sacramento Real Estate Market - 01/03/09 12:07 PM
My MetroList subscriber log-in screen has a message for me this morning. It shows a couple of beaten-up New Years Eve noisemakers and this note: "Have a Fine 2009." I wonder if the marketing crew at MetroList were limited by space requirements for characters or if they simply decided that it's cute to rhyme 2009 with fine, but it makes me scoff. A fine 2009? Is that the best they can do? I'm not going to have a "fine 2009," I'm looking forward to a spectacular 2009. But that doesn't rhyme.
I don't even like the word "fine." For one thing, … (10 comments)
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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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