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Real Estate Agent - Coldwell Banker Solano Pacific - BRE #01474067
Benicia, CA Real Estate and Vallejo, CA Real Estate, Coldwell Banker Realtor, Foreclosure and Short Sale Specialist for Solano, Napa, and Contra Costa County. Assisting seller and buyers in meeting their real estate needs.
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Docusign gave me the extra time to go on vacation this year.  Docusign has been a lifesaver for me the past two years.  I never thought about how much time, until I really put together the math.  I have closed over 50 transactions in the last two years, 80% of them involved documents that were si...
11/20/2011
The angst of short selling your Benicia home is real and makes homeowners underwater on their mortgages feel vulnerable.  That vulnerability can project itself to the others as anger, withdrawal from friends, shame, disappointment, and just downright awful. This is happening to friends, relatives...
11/13/2011
Will Banks approve short sales over 2 million dollars?  The short answer (no pun intended) is YES. Today we closed a short sale in California for almost 3 million dollars.  As I have said in the past, short sales happen to all types of homeowners.  Even homeowners who own million dollar homes hav...
11/10/2011
This past weekend I received a call from a local homeowner who asked "What do I have to do to short sale my home".  Usually one of the first sentences I say is "Be prepared to give up your first born child".  In this case the potential seller adamantly exclaimed "Noooooo I won't do that!".  Ok th...
11/07/2011
How this Benicia Realtor gets a good nights sleep......My husband and I got a new bed and new pillows a week ago. This blog is about my pillow experience.  In the world of Benicia Short Sales, I needed something else besides Short Sales to soothe me to sleep. Ok, that last statement was being fac...
11/06/2011
Bank of America Short Sales in Benicia are my favorite transaction.  It amazing how many people still have this idea that Bank of America Short Sales take too long.  Their information is about a year too old.  I am not saying there are the one or two that can drive us Benicia Short Sale Agents nu...
10/30/2011
Benicia Short Sale Questions come up and people are searching for answers from any source they can find. Short Sales in Benicia are more prevalent now than ever.  IF you bought a home in the past 5-7 years ago you paid top dollar for a home.  Loans could be had for with little or no documentation...
10/30/2011
Benicia Homes for Sale and Sold Market Report below indicates that our prices are higher than what price they are being sold for in the last 6 months.  Our inventory has decreased over the last few months, yet we have an inventory that starts with affordable to luxury homes right on the water in...
10/16/2011
A Benicia short sale got sold today and it was special to us this week. I do not typically write about the short sales my business partner I list and sell.  This one is very special as I wrote about it on July 20th and it was titled Wells Fargo Came Through.  We have had some really gnarly short ...
10/04/2011
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Click on the badge above and see what happens! Tonight in our CAR newsletter, it mentioned getting a widget for your website called a REALTOR BADGE.  Very cool! So now I am playing around with it.  What a great freebie from California Association of Realtors! You can go to www.realtorbadge.com a...
09/27/2011
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Melanie Ross

Benicia CA & Vallejo CA Real Estate, 707-319-2828
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