As I mentioned on Facebook today, where I almost never ever go, I don't run into too many celebrities and don't get very excited about it even when I do. But this minor association with Elizabeth Banks now, even though it's small, tiny, and insignificant in the overall scheme of things, has me th
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08/21/2015
If you want to know which the way real estate market is moving in Sacramento, you can talk to a few REALTORS, read market reports and you still might not know what's going on. Some agents work in very small pockets of a neighborhood or section of the city in Sacramento, and they could not tell yo
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08/20/2015
The sellers and I went around and around on the sales price of a certain home in Carmichael. I comped the home and gave them a price based on the square footage they provided to me, but I also let them know that the home would not appraise unless the actual square footage of that home matched the
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08/19/2015
Trudat, now that I reflect, the blog I wrote today is not the first time I have addressed the topic of incompetency but the thing there is so much of it, it's like a plague is growing across the country, and I'll never run out of material to write about on this topic. The more disconnected we bec
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08/18/2015
When we first went into escrow on this Fannie Mae short sale home in Fair Oaks, the buyer's agent seemed very hesitant. She's not an agent I knew or had worked with in the past and is an independent agent who works by herself, I believe. She had done a few short sales of her own, and I'm not sure
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08/17/2015
It seems I get a number of listings in Sacramento in which I am the second agent when the seller had the opportunity to hire me as the first agent but thought he could get the job done more cheaply. I try not to let those situations bother me because I realize that sometimes, no matter how well I
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08/16/2015
Sort of like the battle of the sexes among real estate agents, you know, which do clients tend to prefer, male or female agents, there is also a battle among lobster gender. It can make a difference whether you eat a male lobster or a female lobster. Generally speaking, the female lobster meat is
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08/15/2015
In all of my research about tankless water heaters, I did not come across this little ditty that I discovered a few days ago. Everything was hunky dory with our water heater for 7 years straight. Not one ounce of problems or issues ever. It's run perfectly ever since our licensed plumber installe
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08/14/2015
There is nothing like a drive in the Foothills of Sacramento, looking at country homes and ranches. I spent a good part of my day yesterday taking a listing in Auburn and then visiting with my assistant who also lives in Auburn before going to the Board office to exchange out yet another dozen lo
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08/13/2015
Who doesn't simply love, love, love 26th Street in Midtown Sacramento? It's a street filled with Craftsman bungalows from P to U, and this new listing is only a block from Poverty Ridge. Before you get all excited though, and start hauling out boxes to pack, please know this is a short sale with
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08/12/2015