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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2010
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"As-Is" means different things to different people. Offering a property "As-Is" is a trend in the real estate market and one that is misunderstood. I am seeing this term on listings from equity sellers, short sale listings and REOs; the word use is the same, but the applications of this condition...
02/27/2010
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In response to an earlier post....here is my short sale addendum. This is an example written for my buyers and for those in the first position. In item 9 I would reference what position they are in. I use this for buyers on my listings, and always for my buyers who I represent as a buyer's agent:...
02/25/2010
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Success and failure, closings and cancellations, litigation and disclosure. Topic of discussion with a few Realtors yesterday. The one common element of all the success stories? Disclose in writing! Write it down, get a signature.....close the deal, avoid litigation. Real estate is in tricky terr...
02/25/2010
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I've been reading blogs recently on several platforms, including Active Rain when the commenters are using condescension as a tool to make their points. Some of these are Member's Only blog posts, but many are not. The other sites like Trulia and Zillow are all public forums and ones which many c...
02/24/2010
Another low appraisal came in yesterday. One of my agents has spent the past 24 hours on the phone with me discussing options. Although the agent and buyer did run reasonable comps, and knew they were offering over the recent comparables, they were not prepared to find an appraisal that was $30,0...
02/23/2010
I remember the last seller's market. Listings were sold in a day, buyers following real estate agents to watch for a sign being placed in a yard and bidding wars breaking out on front lawns. Well, we might not be in this situation now, but we are seeing the competitiveness increase again. In prev...
02/22/2010
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A: AccuracyB: Basics, basics, basicsC:ConsistencyD: DevotionE: Energy and EfficiencyF: FidelityG: GenerosityH: Hard WorkI: IntegrityJ: JoyfulK: KindnessL: LimitlessM: MonitorN: NecessityO: OrganizationP: Patience and PerseveranceQ: QuestionR: ResultsS: SensitivityT: TenacityU: UrgencyV: ValueW: W...
02/18/2010
Ack....lost a buyer today. Why? Lack of good communication and follow-up. I missed the first rule of sales and didn't recognize the type of communication that was necessary to provide this buyer with peace of mind, and that's our job. I made the assumption that because I was working on things beh...
02/18/2010
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A day of two girls....shopping, eating, drinking...and then repeating. Breakfast was again at Pasqual's, when you only have a few days, you really don't want to make a meal mistake. So Cindy had Papas Fritas and I have Huevos Rancheros. The main difference seems to be black beans vs potatoes. Bot...
02/13/2010
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We woke up and decided to head out. Our plan was to get to Ghost Ranch before driving into Santa Fe. Ghost Ranch is where Georgia O'Keefe lived when she was in the Santa Fe area. I'm planning to be an old woman with long white hair and skirts and live in Santa Fe, like she did. That's the plan......
02/12/2010
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