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At Least I Have an iPhone 6 for Sacramento Home Buying

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Real Estate Agent with Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker DRE #00697006

What Apple doesn't make clear with the new iPhone 6 is you need to remove the sim card from your old iPhone 5 and transfer it to your new phone, which you can't do when you're on the phone talking to your service provider. Right in the midst of trying to do this before retiring for the evening, I received several voice mails, one from a seller who was very upset that the key she placed under the mat for me to put into a lockbox was no longer under the mat and she could not find the lockbox, which was on the gas meter. I couldn't call the seller because my sim card wasn't yet transferred.

Another agent could not upload an offer for me because her cover page wasn't working correctly. I finally put my service provider on hold, made several calls to resolve the issues, and went back to trying to activate my phone. There is a reason I turn off my cellphone at dinnertime and don't turn it back on until morning.

Because I know when it's morning. Morning is when I strap guns to both hips, tighten my belt, and saunter out into the world. You can read more in my personal blog today about The Showdown at the OK Corral in Sacramento Home Buying.

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Elizabeth Weintraub is co-partner of Weintraub & Wallace Team of Top Producing Realtors, an author, home buying expert at The Balance, a Land Park resident, and a veteran real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, Carmichael and East Sacramento, as well as tract homes in Elk Grove, Natomas, Roseville and Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put our combined 80 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold. DRE License # 00697006.

Photo: Unless otherwise noted in this blog, the photo is copyrighted by Big Stock Photo and used with permission.The views expressed herein are Weintraub's personal views and do not reflect the views of RE/MAX Gold. Disclaimer: If this post contains a listing, information is deemed reliable as of the date it was written. After that date, the listing may be sold, listed by another brokerage, canceled, pending or taken temporarily off the market, and the price could change without notice; it could blow up, explode or vanish. To find out the present status of any listing, please go to elizabethweintraub.com.

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Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

I don't even want to talk about meeting in the middle.  yesterday a buyer ran away after our seller tried to meet them more than half way.  Ugh.  And I am currently  (not very happily) sitting and waiting for the fed x guy to deliver my phone.  I'm taking it to the store and having them do EVERYTHING that needs to be done to ship the old one off.  

Oct 15, 2014 01:09 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Hey Tammy: They were 2 weeks behind in delivering my iPhone from the date they said I would get it. Our schedules are too hectic to be interrupted to mess with this. That's why I thought I'd do it "after hours" and even then it was somewhat frustrating. What can be so hard about syncing your phone and then syncing your new phone? Ha. It is trying to download updates at the same time it is syncing, so that's one issue.

Oct 15, 2014 01:21 AM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

I have a 4s and when I uploaded the most recent update the thing just quit working.  Most of the time it does not ring and I have no clue when someone calls. 

Contract is up soon and it can't get here fast enough.  Maybe a Samsung or LG is in my future but not an iPhone. 

Oct 15, 2014 08:13 PM
Conrad Allen
Re/Max Professional Associates - Webster, MA
Webster, Ma, Realtor

Hi Elizabeth.  Why do they make the learning curve so painful?

Oct 15, 2014 09:23 PM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

I think, at least in our Northern Virginia market, the upcoming mid-term election has got buyer's holding their breath.  

Oct 16, 2014 11:20 AM
Sam Miller
RE/MAX Stars Realty - Howard, OH
Knox County Ohio Real Estate Specialist

Elizabeth, I picked up the new iPhone 6+ and have been very pleased with it.  The added size of the 6+ is great because I don't think I will need my iPad nearly as much now.

Oct 20, 2014 06:55 AM
Sam Miller
RE/MAX Stars Realty - Howard, OH
Knox County Ohio Real Estate Specialist

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Real Estate Agent, Top 1% of Lyon Agents, I have been using the iPhone 6+ now for over a month and it is working great and I am now using my iPad less than 10% of what I used prior to buying the new 6+.  Mission accomplished!

Nov 21, 2014 09:55 AM