Julie's Blog

A few months back I was contacted by a journalism student at Sacramento State who was working on a story about pet's losing their homes due to foreclosure.  I told her I didn't have any direct knowledge, gave her some suggestions to follow and a few statistics about the increasing number of forec...

There are many industry professionals and local agents clamoring about a recovery of our troubled Sacramento real estate market but I am feeling cautious because I have been dealing with so many shorts sales and foreclosures.  It is nice to hear about agents being busy and see some houses move so...

April Fool's Day JokesApril 1st, 2008  from Keep it Real in Sacramento It's April 1st again and that means there are some crazy things flying around the Internet. Some of it is difficult to tell if it a joke or not but most of it is fun. Here is a list I found earlier with links to some April 1st...

That was the month that was! I know we still have tomorrow but where did March go?  Regardless of the current situation in the real estate market, weather it is on fire like it was in the early 2000's or suffering like it has been now for almost 3-years the seasonality of it remains predictable. ...

The news and commentary from our National Association of Realtors has not always been something to be proud of.  More often than not they have, in my opinion, been guilty of delivering propaganda than telling readers the truth.  That may be a bit harsh, but clearly they can find a way to put a po...

Last week I wrote about my success with ActiveRain's referral network.  I posted a referral looking for an agent to take sign calls and web leads on a small listing I have that is located about 30 minutes drive from my office.  Within 10 minutes I had passed on the first buyer to an agent who liv...

The wonderful weather we have been enjoying the past few weeks appears to have coaxed some buyers out of the darkness. There has clearly been an increase in activity. We have seen our listing getting more showings in a week than we were seeing in January and February. One of our MagnumOne agents ...

As you know this year, Easter is this Sunday.  Why is it so early this year? Easter always comes on the Sunday after the first, or Paschal, full moon following the first day of spring.Spring arrives on Thursday and the moon will be full on Friday, the earliest Paschal moon since 1913. And that me...

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer.  One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.  He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.  There mired to his waist in muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free him...

From my other blog:  Keep it Real in SacramentoMarch 14th, 2008 From the Sacramento Bee - March 14, 2008 The Sacramento-area housing market is still declining, but a surge of buying by investors in February helped spark the first major slowdown in Sacramento County's long slide since 2005, DataQu...