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Happy New Year (and, by the way, the Senate voted to extend the Mortgage Debt...
Happy New Year to our three readers! The bad news is that my oldest daughter had to ring in the new year in the Senate Press Gallery awaiting a vote on the fiscal cliff mess. The good news is that...
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Scripps Ranch Listing Inventory (What inventory?)
Or, as we like to say these days, comps-schmomps. That's what happens when demand exceeds supply. This morning in Scripps Ranch? A whopping 33 detached homes are on the market; if you take away...
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San Diego home prices are on a little rampage
From the San Diego U-T yesterday, home prices have hit a five-year high in San Diego. Brokers in the multiple offer trenches are "enjoying" the insanity first-hand. Perhaps better than the article...
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The Royal Baby is coming! OMG!
I’m back. And just in case you don’t believe it is really me (or as spellcheck likes to say, “really I”), I will try to throw in a few typos as proof. Ignore the title of this post. This isn’t really...
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Negotiating Like a Pawn Star
I recently spent a fun-filled weekend in Las Vegas with Daughter #2 (pictured, although she is much "brighter" in person). It was a belated finally-old-enough-to-buy-her-mom-wine-day present and we,...
View ArticleObamacare and That Scary Real Estate Tax (revisited)
Here we go again. A client who is interested in selling her property recently told me about a conversation she had with her neighbor. Her neighbor warned that she had better sell by the end of...
View ArticleEasily Distracted
Back in the Mesozoic Era when I was a teenager, I took a little thing called a driving test. Well, that's not entirely true. I took my driving test three times before hitting paydirt, but that is SO...
View ArticleFixtures, Personal Property, and Those Little Contractual Gray Areas
“Can I keep it?” This benign little question is raised at some point during nearly every transaction. Usually, a discussion of “personal property” versus “fixtures” ensues, but many items fall into a...
View ArticleCompeting with the “Fun” of Multiple Offers
If you walk into The Gap and find a shirt you like with a price tag of $39.95 – you expect to pay no more than the ticketed price and hopefully you’ll be surprised with 20% off at the register....
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Escrow Cancellations are the New Pink for Spring – Again
photo credit: The Consumerist (Fashions come, fashions go. And then, about five minutes after you have thrown out all of your shoulder pads and parachute pants, they tend to rear their ugly heads...
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