When I first heard that Bank of America was rolling out its "Cooperative Short Sale Program," I was under the impression that it was available to sellers without hardship. However, that is not really the case. The bank says sellers without a severe hardship will most likely be asked to make a sel
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01/21/2011
I don't go into my office very often because I work from a virtual and mobile office. But I do make a point of going to my office at least once a week to attend our weekly office meetings. That's because I pick up new information and can share stuff with my fellow agents. I learned something inte
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01/20/2011
If you're an Internet user who maintains a domain account at Go Daddy, this blog is for you. Because there is something happening at the domain name, web hosting business of Go Daddy that you might not know about. Of course, if you're a small business owner who relies on your domain email account
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01/19/2011
Before I tell you about my new Elk Grove short sale, let me say a word about baths. I was reading Inman News this morning, a piece about standardizing how we count baths. You know, in Minneapolis, for example, a bath with a shower and no tub is called a three-quarter bath. No such animal in Sacra
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01/18/2011
There is a lot of anger in short sales. Sellers can get stuck in any one of the 5 stages of a short sale, but I see a lot of them who struggle to push past the anger stage. It festers and churns, like a supervolcano underground, and it might never erupt. Unresolved anger can eat away at a seller'
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01/17/2011
You should see me when I pull up to a client's house to list a short sale. I look like a human coat rack with all the equipment I'm hauling inside. Sometimes, I shoot a virtual tour, depending on the size of the estate. So, I've got a tripod for that, which requires an extra trip to the car. I ge
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01/16/2011
It seems that whenever I drive to Lincoln in the winter, it is raining. If I'm driving to Lincoln, it's to do one of two things. Either list a short sale in Lincoln or remove my lockbox from a short sale listing in Lincoln that has closed escrow. The only thing worse than having to shoot photogra
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01/15/2011
You know that book Women Are From Venus and Men Are From Mars? The author of that book, btw, John Gray, looks very similar to that creepy guy who was once married to Bree Vandercamp on Desperate Housewives. But with that aside, the Women-Venus, Men-Mars thing has practically become a household ph
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01/14/2011
Are listing agents prone to sabotaging their own real estate transactions? It's easy to do. I almost did it. And I certainly know better. Nobody is infallible in this business, you know. I've been in real estate in some form or another since the 1970s. Yet, I almost put my big, fat foot directly
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01/13/2011
It seems that home buyers in Sacramento sometimes believe that dealing with a short sale bank is identical to dealing with a bank that has foreclosed upon a home, when the two types of escrows are actually quite different. There are different departments of the bank that handle these two types of
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01/12/2011
