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Zillow and Unicorns
photo credit: libertygrace0 Information and misinformation has been a problem for our clients and would-be clients for years. The search box runneth over with sites offering real estate “listing”...
View ArticleWhy we love Scripps Ranch (video)
I've toyed with the idea of incorporating video into our site for years, but staring into the eyes of the video monster can be a frightening thing. I always came back to the same question: Do it...
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The Property Inspection – You had to be there (revisited)
It was three years ago this month that I wrote about the importance of being present at your property inspection. The idea is that things tend to get lost in translation. More specifically, when an...
View ArticleMultiple Families
I hate multiple offers. First, I should define the term, for the laypeople out there. Multiple offers are situations where the offers to purchase number more than one, and thus the term “multiple.” I...
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Closure
This is one of those posts I didn’t want to write. I almost didn’t write it. It’s too difficult, and it’s not about real estate, at least not in the strictest sense. Better to talk about termite...
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Flippers and Regular Folk
photo credit: rob st Looking for a deal? Get in line. We often tell our selling clients that there are two buyer pools out there. One wants a picture-perfect home with all of the goodies (granite,...
View ArticleMello Roos Deductibility Update
Isn't this just ducky? Just in time for tax filing (not). In an interpretive about-face, it would appear that people blessed with a Mello Roos assessment may now continue to claim those payments as...
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The San Diego Home Show – An Infographic
H/t to Agent Genius for introducing me to Piktochart, a cool little site for creating infographics on the fly without breaking a sweat. Well, it's not really that easy. First you have to have something...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Room – Coercion, content creation, and out of the mouths...
“It’s stupid to give away your content for free,” my daughter scolded. Daughter Number 1 is home on a brief layover between journalism stints at New York Magazine and The New York Times Washington D.C....
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A Blogging Vacation and Back to My Roots
Good: photo credit: bunnygoth Bad: photo credit: mikebaird At least if you live in a Scripps Ranch subdivision. But first, a lot of things happened on May 7, 2011 – newsworthy things, I dare say. I...
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Taking precautions when showing your home (and I know)
photo credit: jontintinjordan In a post long ago (Stardate September 23, 2006), I shared a few of the low-lights from my week that was. This recent post by “Jim the Realtor” Klinge sent me on a trip...
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Today’s Big Idea – There is nothing boring about a short sale.
(Before we commence with our regularly scheduled programming, a big link-back token of my appreciation to Kyle Lammers at Lender 411 for his uber-nice write up of our little blog. As my daughter, the...
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American Home Buying Day revisited
Steve penned this little gem about five years ago, shortly after Jim Cramer called the bottom of the housing market. 2007, 2012. Tomato, tomahto. Close enough, if you ask me. The point is that, lately,...
View ArticleGive us your listings and no one gets hurt.
I remember an old joke from years ago, although I have probably butchered it over time as the old brain cells have moved well beyond their half-lives. It's a joke about picking your argument. A man...
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Hitting Bottom, Barstow, and Scripps Ranch Market Times
According to the Wall Street Journal, the “housing bust is over.” Phew! That’s a relief. This article ran last week so, technically, the housing bust was over on July 11. I suppose I was just too...
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National Housing Stats and Lost in Translation
Photo credit: By chokola The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released their home sales statistics for July. This data is for all property types and reflects homes sales nationally. And...
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A Bold Prediction – The San Diego-Imperial County Sunrise Powerlink Project...
Standard & Poors/Case-Shiller® Home Price Indices for June came out yesterday. But you didn’t have to wait until yesterday. Zillow saved you the trouble and predicted last week what Case-Shiller...
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Market Boredom, My Daughters, and the Medicare Tax (in that order)
Question: What’s your excuse this time for not blogging for nearly a month, blogging being a medium whose success depends almost entirely on delivering consistent daily, if not weekly, fresh and...
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A Few Take-Aways From That Time My Email Was Down (Random Musings)
I could almost hear the mournful, whistling theme song – the one that plays in every Western movie right before the gunfight scene. I could almost see the tumbleweeds dancing playfully across the...
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