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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2012
It’s a numbers game. I saw some recent posts of people who noticed some fabulous numbers on their Active Rain accountsthat one can only think of as auspicious. According to Merriam-Webster: 1: showing or suggesting that future success is likely :propitious 2: attend...
01/19/2012
This is a well-written post that explains why it is necessary to be pre-approved. No matter how many times we tell buyers to do this first, we are constantly running into new buyers who want to start looking at houses before they talk to a lender. Yes, it's a waste of time to look at homes that ...
01/18/2012
Three months on the market. No action, then boom! Multiple offers after price reduction Can you say discount? This Alameda CA property was offered for sale in October 2011 right before the sellers were relocated out of state. The listing agent, with the sellers’ blessing, did all the right things...
01/17/2012
REALTORS are Project ManagersWhenever we have a buyer or seller in contract, we put together a timeline of what will happen next, and share this and a list of action items with our clients.Essentially, we’ve become project managers of each transaction. And we put together our version of a Gantt C...
01/17/2012
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This is a great analogy of our role as REALTORs. Not only do we put things together (resources, disclosures, etc) we also KEEP them together. In corporate life, we learned about the Gantt Chart every time we have a project. And there are a variety of styles (samples here) when we manage a project...
01/17/2012
Another delightful and hysterical collection of MLS bloopers. As funny as these may be, and as hard as we laugh at others' mistakes, we should be ever vigilant in avoiding making similar mistakes. Enjoy...then go see Gwen and give her an "attagirl" for this post. Something may have been rotten in...
01/16/2012
Doug posted an excellent article about trust. This is definitely feature worthy --- enough of us have suggested this, and I surely hope more people will read it. I especially like his definition of the kinds of trust such as the assigned trust that is exemplified in the military and other dangero...
01/15/2012
How tenants cause your property to get a “C” in Sale-ability.Seller lists house with you. You’re ecstatic. It’s on a great location, just 4 houses from the beach. Seller has made a lot of improvements. Should be an easy sale, right?WRONG! There’s a tenant who doesn’t want to move. Your first task...
01/15/2012
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Berkeley CA Real estate sales 2011 compared to 2010: Trends for foreclosures and short salesBerkeley CA seems to hold it own, with very few distressed properties compared to some of the neighboring cities like Oakland CA and Alameda CA both of whom show an increase in distressed properties from 2...
01/15/2012
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As real estate professionals, we all do our part in elevating the profession in the public eye. By behaving in the most ethical and professional manner, we manage to accomplish this, bit by bit. Whether one is a real estate professional or not, participation on Active Rain is done -- or should b...
01/14/2012
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