Robert Schmalz's (eaton9) Blog

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Real Estate Broker/Owner - West Los Angeles Real Estate Group - DRE# 01813025
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Ok so what does Hanna Montana have to do with Real Estate?  I have an 11 year old son and since he takes after his father, he is into music and a great dancer - think disco 70's - {:0)  So Jake says we have to go see "Hannah Montana The Movie" and of course I said I would love to go --  {:0(   I ...
03/12/2011
We get so caught up in the reasons clients give us why they are not buying or selling that we are buying into it. Of course we shake it off and get back to the positive but it is hard to fight the flow of people spouting negativity about the Real Estate Market. The West LA Real Estate Market is n...
03/11/2011
Comments to post give rise to interesting conversations. I received an interesting comment to my post yesterday, "Arms Length Transactions", from Cara Marcelle Mancuso, saying that her brokerage does not allow double siding a short sale. She went on to say, "I can see where the lender would not b...
03/10/2011
Short Sales and Arms Length Transactions Since I specialize in Short Sales and REO's for Santa Monica Homes and Brentwood Condos I have been becoming very familiar with the term Arms Length Transactions. As the market for short sales has been building in West LA Real Estate Market I am getting ap...
03/08/2011
WILL THE ROADBLOCKS EVER BE TAKEN AWAY SO WE CAN RECOVER?So let's see what else can they do to the Real Estate Industry that could continue to put roadblocks to our recovery.... Oh I know let's make the future ability for first time home buyers an unknown if they can get a mortgage. No matter tha...
03/07/2011
I was wondering if it is me or are other people having problems using AR on an Ipad. I notice that AR does not have an App for Ipad, has one for Iphone and I am surprised they haven't done one for the Ipad. When using the browser on Ipad and I go to the AR sight it all seems to work except postin...
03/05/2011
I have been posting for about a week now on Active Rain. I compare it to a buyer I am selling a Santa Monica House to that tells me all his wants and needs and that has been looking at three bedrooms. At the 4th house he tells me we really only need 3 bedrooms. Knowing what to write is not the is...
03/05/2011
I am pretty sure it is the same all across the country, the pressure put on us to work with anyone that can fog a mirror is tremendous. In normal times we would spend a lot more time in qualifying a buyer than we do today. Truth be told working with a buyer who turns out to be a dud, isn't really...
03/04/2011
  Being a Santa Monica Realtor it seemed that since we think of ourselves as living in a "cool" section of the coolest state that there is not much out there beyond our small area of West Los Angeles Real Estate . It was like when I first left New York, some hmhmph years ago, I thought when I cr...
03/02/2011
West LA Real Estate Group is associated with Keller Williams Brentwood.  I am a Broker Associate and on the leadership committee in this market center. I specialize in Brentwood Real Estate and Santa Monica Real Estate, areas where I have lived and worked for over 25 years. I recently had the opp...
02/28/2011