real estate: If You Can Afford a Condo, You Can Buy a House
- 10/04/16 07:58 AM
If you qualify to buy a three-bedroom, two-bath condo you can probably buy a detached single family home for the same monthly expense. But how? … (2 comments)
real estate: How to Vet Your Listing Agent
- 09/16/16 04:54 AM
The times, they are a changin'. Here's how to choose The Best Agent to represent you. And, as a bonus, a short lesson in proper usage of "he," "she," and "they!" http://www.cathyturneywrites.com
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real estate: Let's Not Sell Your House
- 07/15/16 09:58 AM
Two-thirds of the homeowners who call me to discuss moving end up staying put. Am I a bad "sales" person? (Continued)
I love your comments. Please email me at cathy@cathyturney.com and put “Blog” in the subject line. I care. _____________________________ Cathy Turney has been a California licensed real estate broker (#01056789) since 1988, a state-certified appraiser (#AR008672), and wrote the American Business Association Stevie Award-winning book, Laugh Your Way to Real Estate Sales Success. … (1 comments)
real estate: Five Things the Listing Agent Doesn't Want to Hear
- 06/29/16 06:39 AM
As a buyer, you want to start the purchase process on a level field. Well, at least not with the deck stacked against you. You can and should say anything to your own agent; after all, she’s there to address your every concern and protect you. But the listing agent…that’s a whole ’nother story. It’s not often that the listing agent gets to talk directly to the buyer; usually there’s a middle man—the buyer’s agent. So whenever a listing agent gets ear-to-ear (phone call) or face-to-face (open house) with a buyer, she will try to read him like a book. And what … (0 comments)
real estate: Disturbing Trend - Sellers, What Are You Thinking?!
- 05/31/16 09:36 AM
Spring is here! Flowers bloom, temperatures rise, and sellers make big mistakes. Like not putting their home on Multiple Listing when it’s time to sell. It’s a disturbing trend in the Bay Area where according to the San Francisco Chronicle, about 50 percent of closed sales never hit the market.
Agents run display ads in the newspapers: “Call now, before this home goes on Multiple Listing.” Yard signs are planted at homes whose newspaper ad might pop up when a buyer does an advanced Google search of that exact address.
Let’s examine this from both the seller’s and the agent’s points of view … (0 comments)
real estate: Things that Go Bump in Real Estate
- 05/18/16 04:28 AM
Another in the series of my trying to help buyers and sellers (and Realtors) avoid things that go bump in real estate: Silence is Golden. … (0 comments)
real estate: Laugh-out-loud Hilarious!
- 09/11/15 04:07 AM
See what we do every day through the eyes of a cat! @Sarah D'Hondt is the funniest real estate humorist in print! http://bit.ly/1K2y0m8 … (1 comments)
Thanks sooo much to all my friends who have kept asking when (if?) my new book will be out. I love you! Here’s the update: We have a cover! We have advance reviews! We are in the second edit! Here’s what John Robinson, Founder of PassionQuest Technologies, LLC, #1 best selling author, and master business coach says about it: This is it—the key to unlimited success in business and in life. A twenty-five year veteran of real estate sales, Cathy takes the reader on a hilarious trip down memory lane, imparting golden lessons on getting to the top and staying there. Stay … (0 comments)
real estate: Is History Repeating Itself?
- 06/13/14 05:15 AM
We're back to stated income loans (with 30% down) and FHA with 3.5% down. Someday, many of these borrowers will make the "business decision" to default. Maybe the benefits outweigh the risks for lenders, but... … (0 comments)
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