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Real Estate Agent - Karen Parsons-Fiddler, Broker 949-510-2395 - BRE# 01494165
A Southern California Coastal agent's perspective on real estate and other things that interest me! Based in Laguna Beach, Real Estate is my passion.

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2009 

Are we already too late? Probably not, but in my market the tide has turned. I think we are going to see a fall slowdown, but then hold onto your hats in January. So as the summer begins to wane, I'm bringing on new agents, developing additional lead generation techniques, and fine-tuning my busi...
09/29/2009
I had a really fun Saturday....I wrote a parady on short sales called Did Cavemen Have The Same Problems As We Do? . To date I have 144 comments from some very clever people. Graphics and clever comments pepper the conversation about poor Aarg who lost his deposit (a rat) because it died before t...
09/28/2009
One of my daughter-in-law's bridesmaids and best friend took this at a botanical garden.....the color contrast was amazing. She needs to submit this somewhere. by Darcy Snyder, St. Louis, MO
09/27/2009
Once upon a time there was a caveman named Aarg. He found a beautiful cave with a view of the swamp and wanted to live in it. He called a Realtor and chipped out an offer (in stone of course) for 6 boulders and a fresh rat. His Realtor told him that this was a short sale.....the current owner, Mi...
09/26/2009
As of now, the first time home buyer credit expires the end of November. Adding to the difficulty the new FHA guidelines, which require the re-certification of all condo projects, becomes effective October 1st. The sad truth is that unless the buyer is solidly into an escrow right now, they most ...
09/26/2009
I'm dealing with this today...and just posted my own blog on this. But in researching AR, which is a great tool....I found this also. We need some solutions....my buyers are on the last day and find out they are $15,000 short and the sellers are trying to close on a new home they bought in anothe...
09/25/2009
I'm losing a deal this afternoon......we got the original appraisal $15,000 less than we offered, we had asked for $12,000 in closing costs. So the seller came down to $425,000 which was the appraisal value and the buyer borrowed more money for the closing costs.  Today....we are supposed to clos...
09/25/2009
 A few days ago...I wrote a blog post The Phone Call I Don't Want To Make....3 Strikes YOU'RE OUT and I put off that call every day this week. I kept thinking there had to be an answer....it wasn't making sense. Today? We found our solution! I spent some time discussing this with my broker and re...
09/24/2009
My "son" is the one in pink! This was at his 5th grade talent show. I have a new laptop and was going through some of the picture files....couldn't resist sending this out to the Internet world :). Doesn't this look like something to save for a wedding video some day? Hee hee!
09/23/2009
I have to call my first time home buyers and tell them the purchase just died. We stretched to get the deal together. They are FHA buyers using every spare dime to get the 3.5% and closing costs. We wrote the offer on the short sale in early May. First strike: the appraisal came in $7000 less tha...
09/22/2009
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