When people work with me, many remark that they have often considered a real estate career. I make it look so easy. Sign here, initial there, I'll shoot a few photos and whammo, a bazillion dollars will fall at your feet at the end of 30 days. You know what accomplishes that feat? Dozens of years
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03/21/2016
As my friend Tina and I sat on the stone bench in William Land Park, soaking up the sun and watching the activity around us, my mind wandered to the last time I felt this way, gloriously glad to be alive. One of those moments in life when you say to yourself: it just doesn't get any better than t
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03/20/2016
There is such a vast difference in the way a car buyer is treated at dealerships these days. Part of it most likely has to do with the fact that dealerships mostly employ internet specialists to talk to buyers online. When you go into the dealership to buy a car, though, I can tell you that you'r
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03/19/2016
The best thing about wandering around Italy, apart from staring at the beautiful men with gorgeous blue eyes, whom I swear are the prettiest humans I've ever laid my eyes upon, is the food. Never met a tratorria I did not love and that did not love me. True passion is poured into every course, fr
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03/18/2016
To me lately it seems like I am writing too many blog posts about the number of awards I have received this spring for my production last year, but then again each award is special and unique. If I don't mention it, who will? It's not like my brokerage, Lyon Real Estate, does any promotion or mar
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03/17/2016
My Tuesday was filled with homebuyers calling, one after the other, practically. Some don't want to buy a home yet, others are in the middle of hunting for a home, and two buyers preferred to complain about their previous agent, hoping for somebody to listen and engage. That's what you get when y
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03/16/2016
The best way not to practice law in Sacramento real estate is to rely on the California Association of Realtor documents instead of making up your own stuff. As a member of C.A.R., we have access to a boatload of legal forms in the library. New forms are added every year and the language is consi
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03/15/2016
It's sorta amusing that I will drive to Granite Bay to take a listing, but I don't want to drive that far to dine at one of the best restaurants in Sacramento. Well, technically, Granite Bay is located in Placer County, but it's just around the lake from Folsom (in Sacramento County), which was o
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03/14/2016
Very few people in Sacramento are living in underwater homes anymore. There are a few but not very many. Not anywhere near the number of homes without equity that there were in 2011 when the market bottomed out. There are probably more people living under a freeway than living in underwater homes
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03/13/2016
I had to ask an office assistant last night if I had ever won the #2 agent award at Lyon Real Estate in the past, because it seemed to me like I might have but I didn't fully recall that occasion. Turns out I had won that award in 2012. Oh, how quickly time flies. Last year I was in the top 3 age
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03/12/2016
