My wife and I got married a little over 30 years ago, in 1979. It seems like not so long ago, but we have a lot of good memories from our time together. When we made plans for the wedding, my wife decided that we had to memorize our vows. It was not good enough to repeat the words as spoken fro
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02/11/2010
Today we received a letter from a local attorney. It was addressed to a management company that as far as I know does not exist. It was mailed to the address of my company, HomePointe. What we have determined is the some scamster copied a Craigslist ad of ours and changed to their name and pho
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02/11/2010
Sacramento’s Premier Literary Event March 6, 2010 Hyatt Regency Hotel Tickets $200 Tables $1500 Doors Open: 5 p.m. Keynote Speakers: Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, and Glen David Gold, author of Sunnyside. Make your reser vations now by calling 916.264.2711 or buy your tickets today at
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02/10/2010
Learn the key fair housing laws, federal and state protected classes, prohibited activities under the fair housing laws, and the possible consequences of fair housing violations. Presented by attorney Gary Link 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the RHA office (201 Lathrop Way, Suite C, Sacramento) $29 RHA me
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02/09/2010
The reality is that many people got caught in the crossfire here in Sacramento and California of an overheated appreciating market. With the downturn, many have lost their original down payments and are underwater in their homes. The only way out of a huge loan payment is to short sell the home
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02/08/2010
Remind yourself who you are working for. There are plenty of social services for people that truly need it. Let those agencies help them, not you. You are paid to be the gatekeeper. My approach is to tell them that we will run a credit report and that report will give us the answer. We cannot ch
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02/07/2010
Over the years we have cut back quite a bit on our print advertising for rentals. In fact, at HomePointe Property Management in the greater Sacramento Area we take out a full page ad in the Sacramento Bee on Saturdays only. We are currently doing a market study to determine what the return is.
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02/06/2010
As you can see below, we are showing property this weekend. We do stop just before kickoff time on Sunday. Come see one of our rentals this weekend. You can always see our showing schedule at our website and click on Residential Rentals. Or just go direct to our showing schedule. Saturday 2/6/201
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02/05/2010
This idea is so good. We should all do our part to stop telemarketing and junk mail. At least we can slow them up. Three Little Words That Work!!(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...' Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) w
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02/05/2010
Here in Sacramento, CA not all of our ex-tenants agree with our deposit refund determinations. When this occurs we ask the tenant to put their side of the story in writing. We will review that and make a final decision. If the ex-tenant still does not agree, their only avenue to solve the issue
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02/04/2010
