Yikes. My husband just came home from the Broadway Post Office -- also known as the Land Park / Curtis Park post office -- to say somebody has vandalized the mailboxes, and all the mailboxes are now sealed shut. It looks like they used a crowbar to pry them open, he said. The mailboxes are in the
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12/12/2008
Below is a Trendgraphix chart detailing the last 15 months of housing activity in Sacramento County. From September of 2007 through November of 2008, inventory has fallen 39% in Sacramento. Inventory is the number of homes for sale. With fewer homes for sale, buyers have fewer choices, which mean
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12/12/2008
I believe it's good practice to insist that home buyers choose an offering price because it's their money and their investment, whether the property is a home or a 500-unit apartment building. I give buyers enough information about the neighborhoods we tour, the market trends and facts for the ar
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12/11/2008
Sometimes visitors come to my web site, sign up to receive daily emails containing new listings, and they never respond to the personal email I send them. I don't believe in generating automatic responses because I want visitors to know that if they have taken the time to poke around my site, rea
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12/10/2008
I like to equate home buying with the red shoe shopping experience. Women will know what I am talking about. Red shoes, for me, are the hardest shoes to buy. They are special. Powerful. And must be perfect. So, if I walk into a mall and spy the **perfect** pair in a display window, I might be tem
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12/09/2008
I hate to admit this, but I have not yet put up a Christmas tree this year. I used to go hog wild and decorate an 8-foot tree, but since my husband doesn't lend a hand (he's Jewish), I decided several years ago that decorating 50-some trees in my life is enough. So I picked up a four-foot artific
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12/08/2008
California's annual 77th State Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, themed "We Celebrate," is scheduled for Tuesday, December 9th at 4:30 PM. The ceremony begins on the West steps of the State Capitol building, with the official lighting of the tree at 5:15. In partnership with CaliforniaVolunteers,
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12/07/2008
An agent called me last night on one of my short sale listings to say he wanted to write an offer. His reason for calling was to say he could not believe his lucky stars when he ran across one of my short sale listings in Sacramento to discover it was listed by a "regular real estate agent." I'd
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12/06/2008
As I read this morning's paper that more than 1,200 home owners attended the Hope Now Workshop yesterday at the Sacramento Convention Center, I feel good about the process. However, the other facts such as nationally, three million home owners lost their homes in 2006; California foreclosures hav
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12/05/2008
If you've always wanted to buy a Tim Lewis home in Anatolia, now is your chance. For home buyers who have been priced out of other homes in the Sacramento region, the city of Rancho Cordova offers plenty of opportunities to buy a newer home. There are huge swaths of undeveloped land south of High
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12/04/2008
