Agents just think of it sometimes as that hard question nobody wants to ask. It's personal, too. Plus, they might not want to hear the answer. I think that's why some agents say, Sure, I'll show you that house. Meet you there in 10 minutes. Without a moment's hesitation. Then, they show up and th
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09/20/2018
Yes, I'm preaching to the choir here on Active Rain about Sacramento open house etiquette among agents. Most of the agents who participate on this website discussing real estate know enough to not interfere in another agent's transaction. But like with any group of people, there are often excepti
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09/19/2018
One of the strangest things happened yesterday. Without advance notice, I received an email stemming from our corporate office that congratulated agents on production. Agents you can pretty much count on one hand within the 1,000 or so possible agents in the company who made the Real Trends 2017
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09/18/2018
One of the really nice features about the newer Apple Watches is you can walk away from a cellphone and you can still get phone calls on your Apple Watch. That means when I do gardening work, which is rare, I don't have to stick my cellphone in my pocket where it can fall out or, worse, get sat u
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09/17/2018
From our home in Land Park to the Amador Flower Farm on Shenandoah in Plymouth, it takes about an hour to drive. But it's a beautiful panamora, tranversing Jackson Highway 16: golden rolling hills, sturdy oak trees, gorgeous blue sky. My husband's plan was to stop in Midtown for lunch because he
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09/16/2018
Agents I've been talking with and sharing our listing experiences all pretty much say the same thing. We have a perfectly average house, a nice home, but once the buyer flaked and fell out of escrow, nobody else is making an offer. It sits. Why did the buyer flake? Most likely because they could
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09/15/2018
I put this question out there to the Active Rain community: should Realtor ethics violations be public information? For a closed-knit organization that prevents its members from bad-mouthing each other, no surprise its stance; it's fiercely protective of its membership. Realtors, reluctantly or e
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09/14/2018
Over the last 40-some years of my business life in real estate, I have had one home buyer ask to clear suggested repairs in a home inspection report. Count 'em. One. That's one buyer out of thousands of real estate transactions. A Bay Area buyer -- alongside her misguided, inexperienced agent -
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09/13/2018
In retrospect, 10 years ago, the height of short sale flurries in Sacramento real estate, that's when I probably made the decision to solely represent sellers. That period of time in 2008 taught me there is a lot more to selling a home and representing a seller than moving a product. It's managin
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09/12/2018
I am always a little bit surprised when the Sacramento housing market moves precisely as I expect because real estate is such a volatile thing, like a hurricane, you never really know for certain what will happen. You just get lucky at times, that's all. But I don't feel very lucky at the moment.
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09/11/2018
