Tamara Dorris's (tamaradorris) Blog

Okay, so the truth can be ugly. I get that. I grudgingly read the real estate news every day. Not because I want to hear how dreadful things are (because I don’t), but because it’s my job to keep my fingers on the pulse of the industry that I have committed to represent. Mostly, I want to be able...

What I wanted to title this post, “The Term ‘Clear Title’ Gets a Hair Cut,” but I wasn’t sure home buyers would know what it meant, and therefore, possibly miss out on something that could be, um, IMPORTANT. So here’s the deal: back in the day of easy equity, 100% loans and all that jazz, getting...

Sacramento Home buyers, Sacramento home sellers and real estate professionals all over the country...what is it that inspires you?\

If you would have told me someone could by a 3/2 in a nice Fair Oaks neighborhood for only $179,000, I wouldn’t even believe you…but it’s TRUE!  

  Okay, so it’s time we have a heart to heart discussion on Sacramento housing. Quite frankly, I’m getting sick and tired of hearing these doom and gloom reports, but it seems that the media is dead-set intent on taking all the worse news and repeating it, exaggerating it and cementing it into o...

I always knew it would happen. With four kids, one is bound to eventually pick up and move away from my cozy little Carmichael lair. When our oldest left, we ranted and raved, and now, three years later, she lives only six city (Carmichael) blocks away. She works up the street at Eskaton Village,...

As a Sacramento real estate college professor and full-time agent, I take a special interest in case law that affects our industry. Basically, whenever a lawsuit involving real estate hits the books, it tends to set precedence, which can clearly have an impact on other people who experience simil...