I picked up the Sacramento Bee from the porch and there is a photo on the front page of Giants' Pat Burrell looking like somebody had socked him in the mouth. But, no, it is a story about chewing tobacco and how many Major League players do it. Further on in the story, it says 1 out of every 5 wh
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10/21/2010
One of these days, it's gonna happen. I'm gonna open my front door some morning, step out onto the porch in a nightshirt, barefoot, and whammo. The wind is gonna slam shut the door. My door automatically locks. And, with my luck, this will happen at the precise moment a busload of people drive by
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10/20/2010
Are you kidding me? Bank of America called off the halt to foreclosures yesterday, saying it could find not one single example of wrongdoing on the part of any of its employees. It said it has examined every single foreclosure filing and found them all to be pristine and perfect. Oh, give me a br
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10/19/2010
This is what going to see Robin Williams at the Crest Theatre just before bedtime gets me. I mean, there is no other answer. All night long I had a strange dream in which I kept waking up and going back to sleep, picking right up where I had left off. Without going into all the sordid details, le
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10/18/2010
Uh, oh, now I've gone and done it. I think I have managed to make a client mad at me. Well, I suppose she's not technically a client yet since we haven't yet signed the listing paperwork, but still. Perhaps she won't sign, and then it won't matter anyway. Just a few days ago I was lamenting to my
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10/17/2010
Sometimes, the odds are against you, especially when they are 50/50. That might sound like a peculiar thing to hear from a woman like myself. I'm generally a lot more positive than that, but I have learned from experience that if the odds of success are 50/50, chances are strong that something wi
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10/16/2010
You know what makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over? More than a cat crawling under the bed covers at 5 AM and purring? When a prospective client calls, and I look up the loan in the tax rolls to discover this potential short sale involves a purchase money loan. Because purchase money loans in Ca
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10/15/2010
Do you believe it? Nearly 21% of all of the foreclosures in the county for the third quarter of this year are in California. Those two words: California and foreclosure go hand-in-hand. You can't pick up a newspaper or turn on the news without seeing those headlines. We're not the land of milk an
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10/14/2010
I make people afraid of me. Yup, I frighten people. For the most part, they find me intimidating. I'm not saying this in a boastful manner; it's more of an insight -- a confession, because I'm aware of it. How am I aware of it? People tell me. They say that I'm straight forward and to the point a
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10/13/2010
A prospective client called yesterday to ask whether she needed a lawyer to do her short sale. She was confused. After all, she had called some of her friends who know a guy who knows a guy and they told her that a real estate agent is supposed to negotiate her short sale, not a lawyer. And real
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10/12/2010
