Pacita's Quick Bytes of Real Estate
A REALTOR's perspective on events that shape and affect the real estate market.
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2011
Strangest thing…. My short sale listing was generating attention….it was shown a few times, but no one has come close to writing an offer. So I asked the sellers for a price reduction of 10%. Posted the price reduction where I could on other sites besides the MLS --- and as often as I could on C...
11/21/2011
Driver’s new BFF --- Inrix! This will come especially handy during the holiday season when more people are getting in their cars to travel ---whether it’s to visit family, or to shop. INRIX is a fabulous app that one can download on the iphone, Droid, Blackberry. It’s a “free mobile app that help...
11/21/2011
This is an excellent reminder of how truly blessed we are. In this land "paved with gold", where obesity is a problem, where dieting is an obsession, where grousing about the cost of health care and complaining about the state of the country is a national past time.... STOP! Think of what we have...
11/21/2011
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Getting sick forced me to take time off.... Not the best way to take time off…. but what I learned is that my world didn’t end just because I didn’t and couldn't work. It was unexpected….several days of intense pain led to an emergency surgery that put the breaks on everything I was doing. Fortun...
11/20/2011
The new paradigm for backups and files--- elsewhere but your hard drive I had been smart enough to do the right thing. Backed up my hard drive to an external drive. Signed up to CrashPlan to back up my hard drive. But when my almost 3-year old computer died, I needed --- nay, I WANTED! --- to ...
11/20/2011
A lesson on this Eco-Green Stuff! (as shared on the internet by a senior citizen) Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We did...
11/15/2011
Huge price reduction should provide impetus for potential owner-occupant or investor. Tremendous potential in this Victorian duplex in Alameda CA. Photo GalleryVictorian duplex in Central AlamedaGlass accent for front doorColumns frame entry to living roomLiving roomDining roomFireplace and built...
11/13/2011
Holy cow! This is the kind of person whom we help with our taxes? Judge Judy is right -- she, as well as we, SHOULD send this tape to our legislators and show them what people do with the assistance from our taxes that we send to scum like this guy. Who checks to see if one deserves to be helped?...
11/10/2011
MAC Tips and Tricks Since I am unable to attend MAC classes for a while, I turned to the next best thing: YouTube for MAC tips and tricks. There are quite a few of them out there, so I had to pick and choose the ones that are the simplest and easiest to follow. The series by AJones 413 is for the...
11/10/2011
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An old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch. The old German Shepherd thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep shit now!” Noticing some bones on the ground...
11/08/2011
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