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
Written to the tune of "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music: Leads in my inbox and answers to emails;Appointments set up and answers to phone calls:Excited people with well-defined needs:These are a few of my favorite leads. Quick interaction and answers to questions:Pre-quals in hand and...
10/30/2010
What do you consider a waste of time? It appears that many agents consider any activity which does not result in an immediate sale a "waste of time." I disagree! If that were the case, then why do we write blog posts about our dogs and Members Only posts about anything? The main purpose of...
10/28/2010
Down Payment Assistance and low rates for buyers in California. First time home buyers....now is the time to take advantage of this great program. Look at the low rates Donne talks about! And with the goal of providing affordable rates for low and moderate income earners, you can see your dream o...
10/27/2010
Opening Day today....Celtics/Heat, Lakers/Houston! I don't know which game I'm more excited about....ok, yes I do. Celtics/Heat. For those of you who know me....I'm a Lakers Fan. In fact I was quite excited this weekend to find pretty purple plastic water bottles with the Lakers Logo and the...
10/26/2010
Community Service/Volunteer Opportunites In Orange County For Youth I have a 15-year old who is working to achieve the Congressional Award for Youth ! This is an intensive 4-year program and has 4 different elements.....Personal Development, Exploration, Physical Fitness and Volunteer Public Serv...
10/25/2010
It happens to all of us...new and "used" Active Rainers. I don't know why I just called us "used" but it sounded funny, did it grab your attention? No....oh well. :) This week I had a post Newbies.....Have You Thrown An Active Rain Party And No One Came? It'll Happen....Keep Blogging and I've hea...
10/25/2010
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Everyone has been new to Active Rain at some point! Yep....it's true! Doesn't seem like it when you are trying to get your blogging feet wet, does it? I remember! I remember spending hours, agonizing over a post that I just thought was "brilliant" only to find no comments waiting for me in...
10/23/2010
I've been reading more and more blog posts about how some agent has "stood up for themselves" and refused to work with buyers that weren't planning to buy that very day. When did this happen? Each situation is different.....but more and more the trend seems to be that unless the buyer has a pre-q...
10/23/2010
Ok....so may I assume you are going to take it personally if I don't like your listing? Then why are you calling me for feedback? Oh yes, I know....because you honestly think that almost a week after the showing you might find that we've just "forgotten" to call you with our full-priced o...
10/22/2010
I know and love many blondes, but this was too funny to pass up. I have a friend who lives in the Midwest who took this on her mobile phone. I'm sure there are other versions of this around the Internet, but she just drove by it and laughed....and somehow thought of me, don't see why. Maybe if s...
10/21/2010
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