Thoughts On Real Estate And Other Things I Care About
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
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I'm learning quite a bit about how to increase our exposure on Google and other Search Engines. One of the best ways to do this is to have "back links" from other relevant sites. Since we are all in the real estate industry of some kind, our sites are relevant to each other. If my site links to y...
01/22/2009
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Beautiful Mission Viejo has been one of the most desirable family oriented cities since it was first built in the mid 1960s. As one of the very first master planned communities, Mission Viejo set the example for the surrounding cities with every park, school and shopping center designed well befo...
01/21/2009
I'm watching the inauguration activities this morning. I'm feeling very proud to be an American. The orderly transfer of power, the pomp, the parade of rivals who can come together to celebrate our Democracy. I know there are many people writing about how choked up they are watching today's activ...
01/20/2009
We all know the answer to these questions is "YES." At least to some degree. Which is understandable! It also follows that many agents are seeing their leads slow down because the news is constantly telling the public how "desparate" agents are. Wow...a sales industry who's DESPARATE, that's goin...
01/19/2009
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Realtors, I went to a great training day at our local Board and got some great ideas. They gave us an overview of ways to market on Active Rain, Facebook, My Space, Zillow and even something called Second Life...but I don't think I want to spend time in a virtual world. Even my 13-year old had ne...
01/19/2009
Let me start by saying that this is not a political comment....per se! I'm not going to talk about my personal politics or my personal feelings for the upcoming Administration! I'm not even going to talk about the obvious milestone that an African-American President is for our country. Although, ...
01/18/2009
Hi all, I had another funny experience today showing homes. I had done my due diligence and called ahead for appointments, so there was no real excuse for this. On top of which, it was a seller controlledlock box...one would think they would take it inside if they were busy. So we knocked, no ans...
01/17/2009
Up until the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 was passed, there existed a little known program called Nehemiah Down Payment Assistance. Nehemiah is a charity organization which gives the down payment for FHA loans to the borrowers. This is not a loan, but a gift. The money was donated to...
01/16/2009
It's rare that a purcahse offer is accepted without allowing for a home inspection contingency. Just because they are advertising "As-is" does NOT mean that you are not entitled to investigate the condition of the home. If the home is a bank-owned, this investigation is especially important becau...
01/16/2009
Realtors have employed professional stagers as part of their service to sell homes for years. In this market, price is king. Buyers expect homes to be in bad shape; they are becoming savvy to the fact that a bank is not going to upgrade a home, that a short sale is likely to have deferred mainten...
01/15/2009
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