sacramento realtor: Can One Party Sign a Sacramento Listing if Two on Title?
- 04/13/17 07:38 AM
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 agreement to make sure that document is legal and binding for all parties.
On the other hand, does it really matter in the long run? Yes, you read this correctly. Think about it. Or, if later on the seller decides he or she does not want you to represent them, … (8 comments)
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sacramento realtor: How Being a Realtor Means Traffic Ticket Immunity
- 04/12/17 07:26 AM
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, whether my vehicle was registered or my insurance was current, and let's not even talk about my state of mind. Getting hauled off to jail was a possibility back in those days.
Today, my life is very much different. When I see police cars, I think of them as … (18 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Your Best Option for Buying and Selling in Sacramento
- 04/10/17 07:22 AM
There are many options for homeowners who want to buy a new home in Sacramento today. Out of all of those options, one strategy stands apart from the rest. It breaks my heart to be forced to explain reality to an excited homeowner who calls me to say how much they love my new listing, how they've been waiting years for a home like this to come on the market, and that they will gladly pay list price to buy this gorgeous home.
They are ecstatic, happy beyond words and bubbling over with enthusiasm. But they don't stand a chance in hell … (14 comments)
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sacramento realtor: How Do Agents Sell Sacramento Homes in Bad Locations?
- 04/06/17 04:56 PM
When the seller of this home in Sacramento looked for a Sacramento Realtor online, she found Elizabeth Weintraub with relative ease. That's because when you're in the business as long as me, and you enjoy additional exposure due to your early adoption of online content, including top producer status, well, it's hard not to run into some page with my name on it.
Anywhere a seller looks, there I am, pretty much. So when this seller called, she was already sold on my abilities to sell her home, which made my job even more pleasurable. She also didn't hesitate one bit when I … (9 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Why Does Everybody Want to Wait for May to Sell in Sacramento?
- 04/04/17 06:44 PM
I am not planning any vacations in April or May. Probably none in June, either. As a top Realtor in Sacramento, I have to make sure I am available for all of the homes that will be coming on the market in May. I have a ton of them in the pipeline, but nobody is ready to list yet. We have nothing for sale. We need listings, desperately.
But people take off to play golf. They are in no rush. They want the walls to be painted just that right shade of taupe. A seller a few days ago asked me about … (5 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Check Out Who is on the List of Three Best Rated Agents
- 03/30/17 08:41 AM
Apparently there is a website that plucks out the 3 best rated professionals in a bunch of different industries, including the top 3 best businesses like Chinese restaurants, tattoo shops, criminal defense lawyers, hiking trails, vet clinics, gynecologists, nail salons, you name it.
You can't pay to get named to this site. The website chooses its listings based on a "50-point system," which is probably automated, but who knows. There don't seem to be any hitches.
Are you on this list? If you are, it's probably the best thing since sliced bread. If you are not, it's probably because you don't have … (9 comments)
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sacramento realtor: When is a Real Estate Award Not Really an Award?
- 03/26/17 09:15 AM
One year I won an award from a prestigious state-wide association for doing The Best Job Ever in a particular profession, and the only reason I won that award was because (gasp) no other members had applied for it. Did it lessen the enjoyment of receiving that award, diminish the achievement? You betcha.
A few years ago, the California Association of Realtors asked for applications from its members to nominate a person for the Best of Something Else, and an agent nominated me. CAR contacted me and said I was selected. Then it asked me to fill out all sorts of application … (9 comments)
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sacramento realtor: How Many Sacramento Home Buyers Cannot Buy?
- 03/24/17 08:07 AM
Once a person knows you are in real estate, they can't help but ask you about the real estate market. Some share all sorts of unexpected personal information. I had the pleasure of talking with a guy last week who mentioned casually that his FICO score was over 700. I wondered why is he telling me this? Especially since I was talking to him for a different reason completely unrelated to Sacramento real estate.
Then he showed me a mobile app that not only gives you a FICO score but shows your net worth, number of months you've been paying on … (6 comments)
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sacramento realtor: How to Handle a Successor Trustee in Sacramento Real Estate
- 03/22/17 08:08 AM
After spending much of yesterday on the phone with the Apple repair shop in Sacamento, trying to find out when my desktop computer will be fixed, I looked up from my laptop and realized, holy crap, it's almost 6 PM and I have not set up my blog to publish. Between that and training a young cat not to suddenly leap into our plants or spring to the top of our television, plus chatting with sellers about potential listings and working out potential challenges in existing escrows, my day just slipped away. Bam, 12 hours, gone.
However, once I started to type, … (10 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Sacramento Duplex Closed Escrow at Amazing Price
- 03/21/17 08:50 AM
Many agents in Sacramento struggle with sellers who want more than the agent is sometimes prepared to list at. I often have the opposite problem. Especially if sellers have been talking to other listing agents who quote them much lower prices than I do. My prices are often much higher.
That's because I tend to look at how much a buyer will pay. I see patterns in the market because I sell a lot of homes every year, and I know how buyers think. I can look at a home and pretty much know how much a buyer will pay. It's not … (7 comments)
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sacramento realtor: The Problem With Listing Homes in Sacramento
- 03/17/17 12:56 PM
No matter how much I encourage sellers to hurry up and get their homes on the market, sellers aren't feeling the urgency. Even when I put things into perspective and explain we have 1,347 single family homes for sale in all of Sacramento County, and in 2005 at the top of the market we had an inventory of around 10,000. Or, that our pending sales at the moment are 1,451, which means leaves us with less than one month of inventory.
A halfway normal market would be 3 to 4 months of inventory. A buyer's market would be 6 months of inventory … (5 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Starter Home for First Timers or Investors is Priced to Sell
- 03/10/17 07:16 AM
Pricing homes to extract maximum profit without venturing into crazyland is definitely a tricky thing in Sacramento real estate. On the one hand, you don't want to be so low that buyers try to go lower because they think you're desperate to give away the home (they cannot believe their good luck!), nor so high that nobody even comes to see it. Not in a seller's market, anyway. You want to be in that sweet position, the price point that says you know, I'd like to pay less but I just don't dare. I better pay list price or maybe even … (10 comments)
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sacramento realtor: How Do Agents Keep a Sacramento Home Buyer in Escrow?
- 03/07/17 09:00 AM
It seems to be becoming more rare these days to sell a house once and close it in Sacramento. This has always been a nagging problem in Sacramento real estate, but in times of tight inventory when buyers are writing offers on every house on the market -- which is considered against the law but apparently buyers don't care, even though their agents should know better -- just getting a buyer into escrow is a major feat.
Keeping them in escrow is another story. The problem is listing agents can't talk to the buyers. We have to discuss issues with their agents, … (10 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Some Sacramento Agents Don't Know Devil is in the Details
- 03/06/17 07:56 AM
There are agents in the Sacramento real estate business who plop listings into MLS and then figure the homes will sell themselves. They don't answer the phone. Do not engage with other Sacramento agents. I wish I could take that route, but I can't. On top of this, there are also Sacramento agents who write purchase offers without ever calling the listing agent to gather insight about the situation.
Because it's almost always "a situation." Every sale is unique. Sellers' needs vary. Expectations are different from listing to listing. An agent can write a purchase offer in line with those expectations … (13 comments)
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sacramento realtor: My Thoughts About How to Choose Real Estate Clients
- 03/04/17 08:23 AM
You hear so much in the news about how to choose a real estate agent, but you rarely read much about how real estate agents should choose their clients. There are few "how to interview your client" content pieces by Realtors because most agents I work with in Sacramento are just happy that a prospective client called, I suppose.
I don't really even like the term "client" because it doesn't apply to the public individuals whom, out of the blue, call a real estate agent. At that point, the caller is a prospect, not a client. I'm not even sure I … (14 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Every Choice a Realtor Makes is Another Path Not Taken
- 02/28/17 07:17 AM
There are only so many hours in a day to get things done. Well, I suppose some of you can stay up util 3 AM to finish your homework, but I'm not one of those. Nope, on school nights, and every other night, this Realtor retires early. That's so I can start fresh and early in the morning taking care of Sacramento real estate.
Every day I have a plan. Things I need to do. And I leave time in that schedule for things that pop up because there is really no way to predict how many times my phone will … (7 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Hot New Listing Will Grab Attention in Sacramento
- 02/27/17 07:45 AM
When the seller told me he had his own home stager in the family, many red flags went up in my mind, and I pretty much tortured him over it, which I now regret. I've just seen too many people think they can stage a home who cannot. So many believe it's just "decorating," and they do not understand how intricately involved and nuanced home staging can be.
While it is not the home staging that will necessarily sell this home in Sacramento, the staging is bound to help create excitement over what is already a pretty exciting listing! It's affordable, has … (7 comments)
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sacramento realtor: This Short Sale is a Remodeled Home in Foothill Farms
- 02/23/17 09:25 AM
The upside to this short sale of a remodeled home in Foothill Farms is the fact there is not much work left to do on the interior of the house. It features 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and has had a lot of work done inside. You might want to repaint the bath, but the rest of the home is attractive. There is also an attached back porch that seems to be converted into a room, so it might not qualify for FHA or VA, now that I think about it.
The main issue I saw was the siding on the side of … (4 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Where Have all The Sacramento Houses Gone?
- 02/18/17 08:20 AM
While it's easy to say our Sacramento housing market trends are seasonal, you really can't ignore the dramatics and numbers in Sacramento real estate today, nor completely explain the swing by seasons. Our January started off with a big bang this year in terms of buyer activity, but seller activity is fairly low and resistant.
I knew this before I saw the numbers on the reports because my buyer's agents were busy like no tomorrow, while most of my newer clients are carefully planning and positioning. They are not jumping on the market like one would expect. But they're in my … (15 comments)
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sacramento realtor: Why So Many People Prefer the Missionary Position
- 02/14/17 06:14 PM
So far this year, time has been flying by. I can't believe it is in the middle of February already. Yesterday, being Valentine's Day, was a holiday that crept outta of nowhere. When my husband mentioned we had both forgotten about the day, we quickly made dinner reservations at an Ethiopian place on Broadway in Sacramento, because that's about all that was left nearby and available, and I truly do love Ethiopian food anyway.
I finished up new listing paperwork yesterday afternoon and then zipped off to Target, because it is the closest store to my house in Land Park. My husband … (16 comments)
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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 agreement to make sure that document is legal and binding for all parties.
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