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Staging is always a top priority when selling a home--and never more so than in today's tough market. Janet Jones's blog post has some great info on the subject, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did! STAGING SMALL SPACES. PART 1--FOCAL POINT A few months back I stopped into an open house f...
12/05/2011
Welcome back to Rockwell's Instructor of the Month series. This month, we’re talking with Jay Mumford, who teaches Principles of California Real Estate and California Real Estate Practice at Chabot College in Hayward, California. Rockwell: How long have you been teaching? Jay: I’ve been teachi...
11/29/2011
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Rockwell periodically features guest bloggers. TICOR, a title insurance company, has generously contributed this post to our blog. A domestic partnership is a legal relationship between two adults who are not married. Domestic partnership status confers many of the rights and benefits that are av...
11/28/2011
American Thanksgiving is all about tradition—food, football games, family gatherings... Another (slightly quirky) tradition is the yearly pardon of the White House Thanksgiving turkey by the president. Who started this tradition and where do the turkeys go after they’ve escaped the dinner table? ...
11/23/2011
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On Friday, the funding fees for VA loans went way down in an effort to stimulate home buying. But don’t get excited…on Monday the fees went right back up! So, as of yesterday, instead of the new lower funding fee of 1.4%, the VA funding fee for basic no-downpayment loans is back up to 2.15%. Once...
11/22/2011
If you work with buyers in an expensive metropolitan area, you may have already run afoul of the drop in upper-end loan limits that happened on October 1, when the limit on both conventional and FHA-insured loans in high-cost areas fell from $729,750 to $625,500. Some buyers looking at houses in ...
11/18/2011
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A person looking for an apartment to rent will probably want to leap at an ad that promises cheap rent. Then there’s the added pressure of making a deposit before someone else snatches up such a great deal. But hold on: it just might be a scam. According to a recent California Department of Real ...
11/17/2011
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Does a cancer patient with a second floor apartment have a right to move to a first floor apartment, if one is open? A recent LA Times real estate column answers a letter from a tenant facing just that situation. The tenant was undergoing chemotherapy, and began suffering side effects of dizzines...
11/15/2011
Have you ever studied late into the night (or all through the night) for an exam, only to find yourself unable to remember most of what you thought you’d memorized? Your mother may have told you, “It’s because you didn’t get your rest.” Well, she was right, but for more reasons than she could hav...
11/10/2011
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Here's another restaurant review, to help our Bellevue real estate students find good eats! One of our favorite new lunch spots isn’t technically a restaurant—it’s a taco truck. We’re big fans of mobile food trucks, so we were thrilled when Los Chilangos recently set up shop across the street fro...
11/08/2011