Mother Lode Lake Tulloch Area Real Estate Blog

Here's another one of those crazy escrow stories courtesy of Charlene Hughes of our Sonora office (you'll appreciate reading it to the end!): My client told us that this would be an all cash deal. He told us the money was in his trust account and all he had to do was get it released to him. He wo...

For Sugar Pine Realty agents - Have you realized it yet? Sure you have. The real estate blogosphere (that universe encompassing real estate bloggers blogging about real estate on their real estate blogs!) is immense and growing. A wealth of information is "out there" and available at your fingert...

Most of you know about Google Earth - that online virtual globe where you can search for and look at satellite images of anywhere on the planet. I wanted to mention one way you can use Google Earth images to enhance your listings. It's pretty simple. You download Google Earth to your computer. Th...

For Sugar Pine Realty agents - I mentioned the Sugar Pine Realty blog to an agent the other day and they replied, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I keep getting your emails. Visit the Sugar Pine Realty blog to read the latest post. Yeah, yeah, yeah." It isn't my intention to raise your blood pressure with the...

For Sugar Pine Realty agents: By now you're all experts with Transaction Point, Sugar Pine Realty's transaction management system. Right? No matter if you're an expert or not, it is true that Transaction Point offers numerous benefits to the escrow and closing process. For one thing, all vital do...

For your convenience, Sugar Pine Realty is now offering sales reports for three area multiple listing services. These reports include home and land listings that have closed. Of course, the numbers are way down compared to the previous years of a booming housing market. But sales are still taking...

"All right. This guy's losing it." You can admit it. Some of you think that about me? "He spends too much time looking at a computer screen. It's got him talking weird." You might remember in a recent post my weird talk was about "widgets" as the new technology that allows you to embed small web-...

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Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Wasn't Superman great? But don't forget even Superman had a weakness. Do you remember what it was? (Not Lois Lane.) It was kryptonite. So what's yours? Even real estate agents have weakn...

To all Sugar Pine Realty Agents - Somebody once said: "Nothing in life is free." And so it is that there is a per year per agent charge of $250.00 for the Sugar Pine Realty website. Which comes out to be about $21.00 a month (in case you were wondering). And if you really want it boiled down, tha...