Hi All, It is another beautiful sun-filled day here in glorious Claremont California. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, my phone is ringing and all's right with the world... or is it? I put a call in to a client of mine a couple of days ago followed by several text messages (and
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08/22/2008
Hi All, Don'tcha just love the English language and all the colorful ways folks use it? Boy, I sure do, and I am especially enamored of the way that some folks truly believe that by merely speaking the words they can "wish" things into being. I always knew "Abracadabra" was a magic word that co
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08/20/2008
Hi All, Every buyer in Rancho, the tall and the small just wanted to get the best house deal of all. The market was hot, there was no end in sight, so they borrowed the money (who cares if its right). They spent every penny with nary a thought, but when the bottom dropped out a lot were just ca
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08/19/2008
Hi All, Lately I have been spending a considerable amount of time shepherding buyer's from home to home in search of their perfect place. And lately, most of what we are visiting is either a Short Sale or a Bank Owned Home. I have seen more than a few homes which have had things missing, faucet
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08/13/2008
Hi All, The Internet is a bad thing. A very, very bad thing. Since the advent of email communication the opportunity to make a fool of yourself, has now expanded to a global scale. Case in point: I was reading a national magazine recently and came upon a story that demanded my rebuttal. It was la
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08/12/2008
Hi All, This is a rant.... this is only a rant... please do not adjust your viewer but take this in the spirit intended... Picture this... We are out for a day of property viewing and shockingly most of what we are looking at is in some form of distress. So what this means to me is that these pr
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08/10/2008
Hi All, Today I want to call your attention to a plague sweeping our Nation. A woefully underdiagnosed ailment striking down innocent folks somewhere every minute of every day, "Helpful Friend Syndrome". Helpful Friend Syndrome (or HFS) can strike anyone, anywhere at anytime and it is not limit
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08/01/2008
Hi All, (This article was originally published on my blogsite Route66Living.com, mere moments ago, but in an effort to help it gain the widest possible audience, because it is a cause I truly believe in, I am re-posting it here as well.) If you've driven down the shady streets of Claremont in the
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08/01/2008
Hi All, Let's face it, if we were all given our druthers, there is not a one of us that wouldn't love to always have the most beautiful listing on the block. And sometimes we do, sometimes the baby is beautiful... but sometimes, sometimes that baby is butt ugly, then what do you do? Well I don'
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07/29/2008
Hi All, I just got back from Inman Connect in San Francisco (where I had a wonderful time and learned loads but that's another blog...) the defacto Real Estate Technology gathering spot. When I arrived in sunny (and it really was sunny for the entire week I was there) San Fran, I thought I was a
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07/27/2008