Once the Rocky Mountains touches your heart, you're never the same again. John Denver or no John Denver. That's the thing about living in the mountains. A couple of my friends who came back to Nederland for the Reunion (the Reunion is for people who used to live in the area in the 1970s and 1980
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07/20/2012
I knew someday I would do this. That's why I have systems and don't deviate. Because the minute I make an exception to a system and change a process, that's when something horrible will happen. It just never fails. I've often wondered when I would download photos and accidentally delete the origi
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07/19/2012
People think you can't reason with a short sale bank but you can. You've just gotta talk to the right people. The right person is not always the negotiator nor the asset manager. I hate to say this, but the truth is that sort of person is just somebody who is doing a job and not necessarily a ver
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07/18/2012
A home buyer in Sacramento asked me yesterday if I thought the process of selling his wife's short sale would interfere with his purchase of a new home. His wife's home is not in escrow yet, but that's still a good question to ask. He said his mortgage company told him he was 100% preapproved and
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07/17/2012
A seller whose listing I canceled accused me anonymously on a website of sending snippy emails. She has no idea what she's talking about. I mean, how easy is it to thumb-out an email message when you're in the middle of having sex? You try it. First, in the middle of all this heavy breathing and
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07/16/2012
Real estate agents often ask me: when do you present offers? Oh, I dunno, the third Thursday of every month? I don't really understand that question. I'm not a lady who does lunch. I'm a Sacramento real estate agent who sells a lot of homes every single month throughout Sacramento. In fact, I res
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07/15/2012
Sometimes, if you want a job done right, you have to do it yourself. That kind of reasoning can hold you back from obtaining monumental success, however. Because most of the truly successful people in the world who catapult themselves to the top of the money heap rely on somebody else to do the j
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07/15/2012
The air in Sacramento's Land Park this morning smells like Snickerdoodles. Yet, I doubt any of my neighbors are baking as the sun barely breaks over the horizon. I stood on my front porch, in the wee hours of the morning, the Sacramento Bee tucked under my arm (yes, I still get the paper), wateri
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07/14/2012
As long as I continue to sell real estate in Sacramento, I never run out of blogging material. That's a given. My problem is often not that I don't have anything to say. My problem is what to write about each morning (if I am to single out one thing) when I have so much stuff spinning through my
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07/12/2012
The high temperature in Sacramento yesterday was 106. The California State Fair opens today in Sacramento. And the latest news is California ranks as the nation's #1 leader in foreclosure activity, according to RealtyTrac, which predicts that more short sales and foreclosures are on their way. Ha
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07/11/2012
