Part Art, Part Science, KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE Excels in Negotiations
Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News Q: The former next door neighbors were original owners who recently sold their home after residing there for over fifty years. The new buyers are now claiming that our mutual fence is just shy of one foot into their property. They are insisting that we move [...]
Pat Kapowich’s De Anza College Course Series Feb/25/12 @ 9am-12pm Guest Speaker: Shawn Parr Buyer and Seller Beware: Only prepared buyers and sellers should enter into transactions involving distressed properties. Short sales, pre-foreclosures and foreclosures are fraught with potential missteps and ramifications that are normally not found in an already stressful situation ~ the buying [...]
Kapowich on Real Estate Program # 156 produced by Pat Kapowich on WellcomeMat Martin Eichner & Sharleen Kilgore of Project Sentinel Project Sentinel’s dispute resolution services are centered in our Sunnyvale office. This office provides counseling to both tenants and landlords as well as rent mediation and dispute resolution services for the cities of Campbell, [...]
Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News Q: Our listing agent has tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the short-sale of our home as promised. He has repeatedly tried to work with our lenders with very little headway. The buyers we had in contract gave up waiting and pulled their offer. We have decided to cancel [...]
Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News Q: We hired a top real estate agent to sell our home. Yet, his assistant is the one helping us most of the time. Sometime another “assistant” will call us to convey information. Our adult daughter is furious that the agent she recommended to us has turned [...]
The TDS (Transfer Disclosure Form) form has been revised to include check-box in Section IIA for a seller to disclose whether the property has water-conserving plumbing fixtures (low-flow toilets, shower heads, and faucets). The revised TDS also clarifies in Section IIB that, by January 1, 2017, a single family residence built on or before January [...]
Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News Q: I moved into my new home last week and the Sellers’ Agent key-safe, FOR SALE signs, brochure box, fliers and display, etc., are still here. The Listing Agent said she would stop by to take a picture with a SOLD sign on the lawn post. Since [...]
Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News Q: After 18 months of a home search, my husband and I want to switch Agents. We have written lots of offers that he was unable to get accepted. He is a nice person but it seems that Sellers and their Agents easily mold him into [...]