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2010
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I love real estate - listing, marketing, buying and selling. Anyone who knows me will tell you that real estate is my passion. I have learned over the years that my health and happiness is most important. When they are in balance, the wealth will follow. I have a wonderful husband who is a retire...
07/25/2010
I live in La Quinta, California, where the temperature is 100+ over 100 days per year. At this time of year most days are 110+ degrees. Many of our clients leave for several months and the ones who live here full-time leave for at least part of July and August. We have stores and restaurants clos...
07/25/2010
We are the middle of the summer heat here in La Quinta, California and we still have alot of people in town. I was concerned as when you drive the streets there are almost no cars. Even at the grocery store, there is no one in line. The restaurants are not busy. I was getting worried. The I went ...
07/25/2010
La Quinta, California, is a beautiful place to live - lots of world class golf courses, beauitful panoramic mountain views, sunshine almost every day, small town safe atmosphere, lots of good shopping and restaurants, minimal traffic, family friendly. The real estate prices are about the same as ...
07/23/2010
Here is La Quinta, California, our real estate market continues to be very active even thought the temperature is 110+. We have buyers and sellers each day. We have listed 3 homes this week, closed 3 homes this week, and sold 2 more homes that will be closing soon. We also got 3 new offers on sho...
07/23/2010
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Yesterday I went with one of my agents to take a listing appointment in Desert Hot Springs on the Mission Hills Country Club Golf course. It is a very nice house. I am walking in the front door and walk forward to check out the amazing golf course and incredible panoramic mountain view. I do not ...
07/22/2010
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5 am - get up 5:15- 6 am - read the paper and have my cup of coffee ( a BIG cup of coffee) 6 - 6:30 am - cehck and return emails and texts 6:30- 7am - get ready to go to the office 7 - 7:30 am - stop at the store for office supplies of water, garbage bags, and candy bars for 12 agents in our offi...
07/21/2010
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It is all good. It all works out. Life in mainly a "maybe."Many times in life what we thought was really bad turns out to be a gift. Out attitude of gratitude and acceptance can change others attitudes too. Most people can deal with any situation as long as they are given honesty and support. A k...
07/21/2010
About a year ago we put our energy out ther to do more regular sales and less short sales. It worked. About a year ago 50% of our sales were short sales and 50% regular sales. Now we have about 20% shourt sales and 80 percent regular sales. I understand that mroe agents are doing short sales than...
07/20/2010
We have been doing short sales for over 3 years. We have learned how to communicate with the banks and when and why to call them. We call almost daily. Since many banks have put their transactions on computer systems it has really saved us alot of time and trouble in contacting the banks. The dea...
07/20/2010
