Don't pay any attention to the weeds growing out of the gutters. Those are fairly new gutters, I suspect. The roof appears to be relatively new as well. And don't let the flowers planted in the front yard down by the street fool you or the nicely set table in the dining room. This house suffers f
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04/20/2017
Helping sellers cope with emotional issues is one of the services many real estate agents offer. It just sort of comes with the territory. I'd like to think that some of us are better at expressing empathy than others. Empathy, as you may know, is different from sympathy. Anybody can say they are
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04/19/2017
The heat in the Sacramento downtown real estate market is burning red hot. You can feel it in the air and see it with your eyes. Buildings going up all around you. It's exciting. It's like we've been drugged and asleep for a decade and we are just now waking up our Rip Van Winkle selves. One of
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04/18/2017
Maybe it's because I don't live in Elk Grove that I list and sell so many homes in that area? I don't know but I do know I'm a specialist there. Some people in the older parts of Elk Grove may express a regret that so many outsiders have taken up residence, but in 2006, Elk Grove was named the fa
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04/17/2017
The saying goes you can't swing a dead cat (that's a terrible saying) without hitting a real estate agent in Sacramento. That's because about 1 in every 35 people in California holds a real estate license. It might be buried at the bottom of a drawer somewhere, but they have it. And as such, they
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04/16/2017
Can't recall if it was at the Lyon Awards Celebration Dinner when we picked up an award for placing in the top 3 agents in Sacramento or if it was over lunch at Ella, but somewhere along the line in the last few months, the agents on my team brought up the fact we should get together for a night
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04/15/2017
I am talking about the little annoyances in a real estate transaction, that all by themselves are not unbearable but when lumped together in a giant heaping pile of you-know-what make an agent want to pull out her hair. It's all of those things together that can also cause a transaction to slide
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04/14/2017
As a Sacramento Realtor, you're probably always warned by your broker to make sure that you pull a property profile or some sort of title verification prior to signing a listing agreement. And don't get me wrong, that's good advice. You want to know who is legally capable of signing the listing a
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04/13/2017
When I think back to the 1960s and 1970s, looking into my rearview mirror to spot polite car lights behind me was a fearful thing. One would pause and reflect. Hearts raced. Maybe wondering whether there was any illegal contraband in the car, any persons, perhaps, who should not be in my vehicle,
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04/12/2017
This particular property came to my attention because of Zillow. Say what you guys want about Zillow, about how its estimates are wrong and it posts homes that are not for sale or have sold, or how it manipulates agents into paying for their own business and fighting like dogs to get it, all that
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04/11/2017
