Pacita's Quick Bytes of Real Estate
A REALTOR's perspective on events that shape and affect the real estate market.
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2011
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The latest issue of Real Estate Magazine of the California Association of REALTORS (CAR) show In 2010, 20% of home sales in California involved short sales This number is expected to increase in 2011 and 2012 3 out of 5 short sale transactions close (per a survey of 2,150 CAR REALTORS) even when ...
06/27/2011
Craig Daniels offers such good information in such a fabulous format. Easy on eyes, easy to follow, easy reading. What's not easy is finding the time to check out everything he suggests or mentions. Lots of good ideas! If you aren't a subscriber to his newsletter yet, you're missing a lot. Crai...
06/26/2011
What a wonderful resource Active Rain is! We don't have to go very far to find all the fabulous apps that real estate professionals and then some, are using for their daily activities. It is such a delight to see all these apps to download. Even better when the apps are FREE! Thanks, Melisssa! ...
06/26/2011
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This is another really good app for the iPad. Gives us another opportunity to go green, become more efficient, be more technology-aware. It is so much appreciated when others share their discovery of new apps, programs, etc. to help us in our daily activities. Go get it! Thanks, Mike! SignMyPa...
06/26/2011
For iPhone newbies who are looking for more reasons to fall in love with this excellent tool --- here are suggestions for Must-Have Iphone Apps for Real Estate Agents. And if you have iPad, remember that some of these apps transfer on the iPad, too! You finally caved. You just bought your new iP...
06/26/2011
When deciding which iPad to get, the obvious priority is connectivity to the internet. 3G connectivity (one has to pay a monthly fee for that connectivity that is dedicated to that iPAD only). Even Computerworld asked "Is the extra $130 worth it?" WIFI (one has to connect to an available WIFI net...
06/25/2011
Dear Short Sale Buyer When you started looking for a place to buy, presumably, your agent educated you on the types of sales that you can choose from, the pros and cons of regular sales, short sales, and foreclosures. And that when you decided to write an offer on my short sale listing that you d...
06/25/2011
REMINDER for all short sale listing agents to make sure that their sellers DO NOT CANCEL their home insurance. Even if the sellers are behind on their insurance payments, they should not cancel it. It could be part of the negotiations with the lender to ask the lender to pay off back taxes and ba...
06/24/2011
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In case you haven't been embarrassed (yet) by how auto correct mangles your entries on your smartphone or tablet.... ....take a look at what your message could look like if you don't double-check what you've just typed. The source of such hilarity? DamnYouAutoCorrect.com Some of these may not be...
06/23/2011
Back in 2008, I wrote about what I don't like about my iPhone. I had the 3G at that time, and it had certain improvements, or we were made to believe, over the first generation. Fast forward three years, and I now have my iPhone4. Fascinating video on design, by the way. Have we come a long way...
06/23/2011
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