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So I’m holding an open house in a nice part of town. The house is of the Tuscan variety with multiple bedrooms, a pool, a basement with a 1,000-bottle wine cellar and many custom features. Traffic is brisk as the listing just came out. In walks a lady holding on to a slow moving elderly woman wit...
03/27/2009
So I’m entering a better than average house on a bad street in a nice neighborhood. I’m here on a listing appointment with Gracie, who was referred to me. She’s a very nice lady, short, thin, attractive but I can’t understand half the things she says because she has a very thick accent and she sp...
03/19/2009
So I’m in this great big house with a termite inspector. You know you could fit five of my houses in this house, says the termite guy. I’m excited now! You have five houses? I could do a market analysis for you…No, no, no, five of my houses could fit in this space here, he explains pointing to th...
02/23/2009
So I’m running into my spinning class at the gym in order to get a bike next to Betsy, who sources tell me is thinking of putting her house on the market, but I find her surrounded by three other Realtors; so much for my networking prowess. I grab the bike behind her and already I’m hearing these...
02/18/2009
So I’m walking my dogs and I get a call. I’d like to ask you some questions about your Artesia listing, the realtor says. I answer, what would you like to know? She says, well, how many bedrooms does it have? I say, don’t you have the mls listing? I lost it and I’m in a hurry, she answers gruffly...
02/16/2009
So I'm on brokers open houses this past Friday and it's time to have a looksee at a $10 mil house in the ritzy Hill Section of Manhattan Beach...my favorite fantasy dream house...and this house was great!; large, modern indoor/outdoor living with panoramic views of the Pacific to dye for. I'm wal...
02/08/2009
So this morning I'm sitting there in a room full of fellow Realtors in our Manhattan Beach office conference room trying to keep up with this sharp, fast talking loan broker holding court about the ins and outs of present day loans. He says that generally most banks want a tremendous amount of do...
01/30/2009
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The Jews, of which I am one, developed this weird language in late 1800's Europe called Yiddish, which is spoken in a strange dialect of German but written in Hebrew. It is such an expressive language that many of its words have made it into the American lexicon, propagated mainly by Jewish comed...
01/27/2009
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So I'm sitting on an open house yesterday and it's quiet, very quite. This is a large, fairly new Mediterranean. It's almost closing time and in walks an LA Laker. I thought I was hallucinating. Jordan Farmer strolls in with his bulldog. I said, Mr. Farmer what's happening! He said, oh just looki...
01/26/2009
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