Premarketing Real Estate “Coming Soon” is Deceptive? If there is liability or deception in real estate, it "derives" from syndication listings NOT “pocket listings” A recent column written in inmannews really has me wondering if legalizing marijuana is really such a good idea. As a matter of
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01/31/2014
Predictions for 2014: Real Estate Edition… Ok, I recognize that this is one of the last days of January, but I think I still have plenty of time to make some power predictions for the rest of 2014. Before I start making some predictions for 2014, I want my readers to know I speak from partic
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01/31/2014
I Like to Get With Would-be Home Buyers Once John. Q. Public is pre-approved by a qualified lender; that’s when John Q, Public is truly ready to purchase a home. Most all Realtors prefer working with qualified buyers, after all, it is invariably meriting being able to show “qualified” would-b
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01/30/2014
Homeowners; “Who Really Owns Your Land? Would-be buyers your rights may have been “quietly” signed away? Most home buyer are under the assumption that when they purchase a home they own everything thing on their property that’s within their property lines (including the airspace above & under
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01/29/2014
A Few Smart Home Selling Tips “Pictures, Pictures and Pictures… In 2103, sellers benefited from modest to nice gains, and 2013 proved to be the best it has been for sellers in the last five years. Countless numbers of homeowners finally had the opportunity to sell their home for a nice profit
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01/25/2014
It’s Not about a Gold Star “The Propensity and Will to Live Happy… Just as life does not always go as planned, but the secret is we have nothing stopping us from enjoying the ride while we ride life by the horns. The problems created in our-own mind, are never as consequential as the proble
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01/22/2014
The Real Scoop on AVM’s is “Not” Automatic Home Valuations Do you want to know the real story about AVM’s? Here’s the real scoop. The national real estate website companies that publish AVM’s are awful and nothing more than a gimmick. Although they do a great job of hiding it, they have no cl
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01/22/2014
Extending Your Dollar for the Housing Market in 2014… As we’re into the third week of the New Year, more and more headlines read “homes” and “interest rates” will inch up this year. And if they are right that means, even though buying a home makes sense, home buyers will have to dig deeper in
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01/22/2014
Ascertaining Fair Market Home Values As a local Realtor in Long Beach, I usually run into three opinions when it comes to the value of a home. In my experience and in general, there is what the seller feels the home is worth, what the buyer wants to pay for the home, and what fair market valu
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01/21/2014
Copious & Abundant Hope for a Better Place… With just over 7 billion people living on this planet (that’s a lot of folks) there must be a lot of dreaming going on. I think we all deserve to dream, and I hope we all have the a few deep core dreams of equality, freedom, peace, & prosperity! R
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01/20/2014
