Elite Properties Sacramento - Broker's Blog

This evening Cameron Park real estate blogger and amateur cosmologist John Lockwood (I mean REALLY amateur) released his latest analysis of the universe as we know it, after extensive research.  Also, this was after working on a long inspection of a house with electricity and trees, having a chat...

As Realtors®, we seem to have a lot to say about our reputation.  In fact, one of the big benefits of our National Association of Realtors® is that we get the reputation-laundering effects of a Code of Ethics, which according to official reports makes us more reputable than we would be if we hadn...

OK, you've "tested the market" and "you're not really in a hurry to sell."  But here are the top ten signs it may finally be time to lower your price. The last time you had a showing, Start Trek the Next Generation was in its first season.Days on Market is showing 12 in the MLS, because 12 days a...

In an earlier article, Qualifying Tips of An Ex-Rookie, I talked about some of the qualifying approaches I've learned that have helped me over the years.In this article, I would like to back up a bit.  In Selling for Dummies, Tom Hopkins calls qualifying Step 3 in the sales process.  Today we bac...

This is a reminder to myself:  capitalism begins at home.I enjoy ActiveRain.  In many respects coming here is like hanging around the real estate office, back when I had a real estate office.  Now that I don't have a real estate office (having traded it for a real estate company, which is more pr...

Beautiful 2 Bedroom Condo at a Great PriceLocation: HillsdaleCurrently the lowest priced condo in the best part of the complex. This terrific starter home or investment features newer carpet, paint, blinds, tile, and remodelled bathroom. Alarm, sun shades, fans and secuity gate on tiled patio. In...

Warning: Pen Pocket Protector Zone ahead... Purva Brown recently asked me if we could get Sacramento Home Journal set up so clients could subscribe to it by email.There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. One is to keep paying GetResponse.com -- which has so far been on my "cost cutting meas...

I've had a bit of writer's block lately. Nothing really serious. I've been treating it with coffee and aspirin.In the course of the aspirin and coffee kicking in, it occurred to me that maybe my writer's block was trying to tell me something.  Maybe I have nothing to say because, after all, I hav...

I recently met a mortgage banker / broker through an agent friend we had in common.  He seemed like a pretty good guy, knowledgeable, friendly, what have you.  He's been at the business awhile and had a good story to tell.For the sake of protecting the not necessarily so innocent but not yet prov...

Greetings, Web 2.0 junkies.Tonight I had a chance to play around a bit with Plaxo, an online address book and calendar that syncs with everything and the kitchen sink -- well, sort of.  Robert Scoble calls it the Switzerland of Social Networks.  I admit, I'm not sure if he means it's neutral, has...