Archive for Consumer Questions
Sacramento Housing, Fact, Fiction or Focus?
Okay, so it’s time we have a heart to heart discussion on Sacramento housing. Quite frankly, I’m getting sick and tired of hearing these doom and gloom reports, but it seems that the media is dead-set intent on taking all the worse news and repeating it, exaggerating it and cementing it into our consciousness. If [...]
Sacramento Real Estate & The Wizard of Oz
Staring at Sacramento housing stats this morning. I looked down at my little mini-Schnauzer and said, “This aint Kansas, Toto.” (but in full-disclosure, her name is “Missy). That’s when it dawned on me that our real estate market really is a lot like being lost on the Wizard of Oz.
When the big Kansas tornado hit [...]
Sacramento Sellers, Service Isn’t Dead!
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I know times are tough and people are stressed, busy, broke and in some cases, in big financial trouble. We’ve all taken a hit in this economy, and my family sure hasn’t been immune to it. But I say, in times of trouble, we’ve got to worked harder, better, smarter and be of [...]
Sacramento Short Sale Book
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In light of the new HAFA Guidelines, I’m so grateful to say that many, many Sacramento homeowners will now be in a position to sell their homes without any recourse from the lender. Previously, lenders would come after sellers that sold their home for less than it was worth. In addition, [...]
Sacramento Home Buyer Update
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This article recently ran in the Los Angeles Times and I thought is might be interesting to those of us in Sacramento still scrambling through the home-owning and selling maze:
New rule affects homeowners in foreclosure avoidance program
The U.S. Dept. of the Treasury and the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development [...]
