On Sunday while driving home from another fun day with the kids at the zoo, I saw the usual number of 'Open House' signs. One in particular drew my attention - 'new listing'. I thought about this for a minute. Was this sign necessarily positive? Personally, when I see a home that is 'new listi
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02/26/2009
Not long ago, I received an anxious call from a seller. She had decided to sell her $3.9 million dollar home and wanted me to sell it for her. She had seen one of my other listings not far from her and was impressed with the fact that I sell my homes - I don't just list them. I stopped at her h
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02/25/2009
I thought it would be an interesting experiment to bring up CNN's home page and take a quick look at the news. This news will already be old by the time you read this, but the analysis is interesting. Recession trickling up to Beverly Hills- This is pretty negative. Even rich people are losing
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02/24/2009
Recently an interesting article appeared in the Seattle Times about a couple who lost their earnest money when they tried to buy a $1.5 million dollar condo in Bellevue even though they earned only $20,000 a year. I read through a number of the comments on the article and found it rather interes
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02/23/2009
Recently I had a discussion with an agent who was adamant that she was the best buyer agent around because she had actually told buyers to not buy a house, and now is telling them the market is at its low point and it is a good time to buy. So is an agent necessarily good for telling buyers to no
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02/19/2009
Deep in the nestles of apartmenia, trouble was afoot. Alice and her husband John were in the throes of home buying, and were ready to throw in the towel. Alice had her priorities in a house and John had his. Together they had searched for months, but had been unable to find the home that they
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02/18/2009
Last week I finally had a chance to watch the movie The Kite Runner. I missed it when it was in the theaters but was amazed when I watched a preview that I understood everything they were saying. I grew up in Tajikistan speaking Tajik - which is very similar to the language they speak in the mov
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02/17/2009
On one of my recent blogs, a person remarked that one reason buyers may cheat on their agents is that they do not trust them. From dealing with people and from comments my husband has heard from his coworkers, there certainly exists some truth to this statement. So why do many buyers distrust ag
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02/16/2009
Recently, I had a buyer call me about one of my listings that he was interested in. The conversation went similar to this. Buyer: Do you have any offers on the house? Me: Yes. We have six offers. Buyer: (pause) Six offers???!!! There can't be six offers! It's a buyers' market! Well, guess what.
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02/13/2009
I have heard the old adage "buyers are liars" before, but I never knew that it went this deep. Recently I held open a house that received a significant amount of attention. On Friday I received over forty phone calls about it and the open house was constantly busy. I had held this same house op
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02/12/2009
