sacramento home sellers: Sacramento Sellers Should Not Pay for Most Inspections
- 01/23/17 08:02 AM
Rules change so much that many agents find it difficult to stay on top of changes. Even our RPA is updated every few years. Things that were true decades ago are not true now. And generally the agents I deal with at larger brokerages are pretty much on the ball with the changes because their brokerages keep them informed. They discuss changes at office meetings, send out announcements via email and offer training. Sometimes I get identical reminders from my brokerage in different formats. When I run across an agent who doesn't know something, it's generally the agent working at a … (8 comments)
sacramento home sellers: How Much a Home Seller Wants is Immaterial
- 03/01/15 12:52 AM
Many agents follow the principle of asking a Sacramento home seller how much the seller desires to receive from selling a home. It's a natural question in many people's minds but it doesn't belong there. Of course, good luck trying to pry that question out of their heads. Real estate agents are taught to question the seller when taking a listing, and they are taught that the first person who speaks generally loses. Many agents talk about pricing and what the seller hopes to achieve from the sale. I am very different that way. It's not really a discussion I engage … (10 comments)
sacramento home sellers: Don't Look at Homes in Sacramento That You Can't Afford to Buy
- 04/14/14 01:33 AM
You would think affordability is such a simple concept that everybody would grasp it, even first-time home buyers in Sacramento, but they don't. Home buyers often demand to tour homes they can't afford to buy. They do it because they don't know any better or perhaps because they think they do know better and they still don't. But in any case, for whatever reason they want to make themselves miserable and upset that they can't buy a home they absolutely love that is listed above their price range because it's above the amount they can afford to pay, they will still … (6 comments)
sacramento home sellers: Learn From a Home Seller's Mistake Without Making the Same Mistake
- 12/01/13 01:49 AM
I suspect that most sellers in Sacramento prefer to make their own mistakes because it resonates better when it's your own mistake -- but we all know they'd be better off learning from somebody else's. How often have you done something that you knew deep down in your heart you should not do, but you do it anyway and then you have to suffer from the consequences? Show me a person who has never done that, and I'll show you a person who lives at Disneyland. I was going to use a different metaphor, a political metaphor, but then I thought … (1 comments)
sacramento home sellers: A Mobile Signer Can Come to a Sacramento Seller's Home to Sign Docs
- 10/10/13 02:58 AM
Only once in my life, knock on wood, did I watch a seller get angry because the title company sent a mobile signer to her to sign closing papers. This particular seller could not come to the title company to sign. She was in the middle of moving, as many sellers are near closing, and was feeling frantic and stressed. The title company offered to send a mobile signer to her new house to sign papers. Still, all holy hell broke loose. The thing is we have little control when escrow closes. The lender calls the shots. When loan docs are … (8 comments)
sacramento home sellers: Why Selling as a Sacramento For Sale By Owner is Like Burning Money
- 09/26/13 01:57 AM
Schadenfreude is not a practice to which I subscribe, as I really do not find enjoyment in another person's misfortune. I find it sad if people are hurting, even if it's people I don't much care for because maybe they were not very nice to me. I don't wish bad things on them. I don't make voodoo dolls and stick pins in them and chant. I let things go. I'm generally a pretty optimistic person, and I carry that optimism and straight-forward way of dealing with people directly into my real estate business in Sacramento. It's with that optimism that I … (3 comments)
sacramento home sellers: Sacramento Home Sellers and Buyers Are On Opposite Sides of the Fence
- 07/24/13 12:14 AM
That stranger standing in line in front of you at the grocery store might turn around and befriend you, perhaps talk about a story on the cover of a magazine in the rack at the check-out counter, or the slow-moving cashier or even the outrageous price of a carton of organic eggs, but that doesn't make the person your friend. That person is no more your friend than the person who is buying a home in Sacramento from you. The likelihood is after closing you'll never speak again. And if you do take up a friendship, it's probably better that you … (1 comments)
sacramento home sellers: The Underbelly of the Short Sale Business in Sacramento
- 04/23/13 11:59 PM
People think that you can't do a short sale if you're current on your mortgage payments, and that's not necessarily true. There are short sales that can be done when the seller is current. I did such a short sale through Wells Fargo for a woman who was retiring out of the area and could not sell her home. The investor for that loan allowed her to be current. I've closed other short sales in which the sellers were current. It all depends on the investor guidelines. Many cooperative short sales allow the seller to stay current as well. Fannie Mae … (4 comments)
sacramento home sellers: I Want to Sell But There is No Need to Rush
- 03/20/13 12:27 AM
I can't count the number of Sacramento home sellers I'm working with lately who don't want to accept an offer. Even a full price offer. They want to wait to see how many other offers they will get. But the problem is they don't tell me this until an offer arrives. But that's probably because they didn't think about it beforehand or because they've talked with other people who have told them not to take the first offer they get. That can be bad advice, although I'm sure it's well meaning. For starters, there are legal problems that can happen when … (8 comments)
sacramento home sellers: Sacramento Home Buyers and Sellers: How to Tell If You're Ready to Hire an Agent
- 04/18/09 03:22 AM
Every agent uses different criteria to determine whether he or she will work a particular client. Some agents attempt to work with every person who walks through the office door, emails or calls them. Some agents are judgmental and may dismiss otherwise perfectly good clients for goofy reasons. Some may work only with sellers or only with buyers. We're all different. Here is my philosophy of how I decide whether to take on a new client. First, I will speak with or email every individual who contacts me. I believe that is simply professional courtesy. Sometimes Sacramento sellers and buyers just … (8 comments)
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Rules change so much that many agents find it difficult to stay on top of changes. Even our RPA is updated every few years. Things that were true decades ago are not true now. And generally the agents I deal with at larger brokerages are pretty much on the ball with the changes because their brokerages keep them informed. They discuss changes at office meetings, send out announcements via email and offer training. Sometimes I get identical reminders from my brokerage in different formats. 
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