Here are my top 3 tips for how to submit a purchase offer. Oh, you might think you have heard these before, but I'm betting you haven't. These tips have been running around in my head for several years, and I've had gripes about a few of them here and there, but I don't believe I've ever put all
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07/11/2013
I read an interesting blog question the other day about how to deliver bad news. The blogger's way was to do it in person. That's not always a possibility for me, but I do employ a personal touch when it happens, which isn't all that often. Because sometimes, no matter what you do, bad stuff happ
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07/09/2013
Not every Sacramento agent in the real estate business is cognizant of what it means to interfere in another agent's listings. For example, an agent might spot a listing and think if the agent just bides time, eventually the listing will expire and then the seller will list with him or her. So, s
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07/09/2013
Sometimes, I type faster than my keyboard can register to my monitor screen. Or, I click faster than my computer can respond. And I have the fastest Internet connection you can get in Sacramento, plus the latest version of OS and a newer computer. So none of that is the problem. It's just the way
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07/08/2013
Did I sit there all night at the Crest Theatre in downtown Sacramento and fume because the ticketholders front and center had my seats for the Happy Together Tour? The seats that I lost because I ran out of time to buy them trying to fill out everything so quickly and clicking buy over and over o
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07/07/2013
After photographing a home in Elk Grove, I stopped by my office in midtown Sacramento yesterday afternoon to meet with sellers and sign the paperwork for listing two homes on a lot in Midtown. This new listing is unusual as it's zoned RO, so a buyer could live upstairs and run a business downstai
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07/06/2013
I have noticed a slight twist in the Sacramento real estate market lately. Maybe it's because there seems to be two distinct caliber types who are searching the internet for a Sacramento REALTOR® to sell a home. I tend to get the sellers who are eager to receive information, learn about the marke
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07/05/2013
Short sales are fluid and constantly changing. What was true in a Sacramento short sale yesterday might not be true today. There are movements, though, that can be predicted. A movement I noted in January and everybody seemed to have pooh-poohed is the fact that short sales are slowing down. Ther
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07/04/2013
The Sacramento Courthouse is a wild and wooly place. I knew where it was located downtown, but I had never been inside until yesterday, when I reported for jury duty. Just watching people -- especially the lawyers -- was a trip. There's definitely a dress code. All of the male lawyers wore black
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07/03/2013
Many of my clients serve on juries. I know because when I send them an email, I get admonished in a return email. They say things like, I told you I would be on jury duty and cannot answer your email in a timely manner. Except I did not ask them to answer my email in a timely manner, and I did no
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07/01/2013
