Kapowich on Real Estate #138

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Real Estate Attorneys Don’t Lose Cases, Their Clients Do
In California, buried within Civil Code 2079 is a clause that states that a
Buyer has “the duty to protect himself or herself.” It goes on to state
“including those facts which are known to or within the diligent attention
and observation of the Buyer or prospective Buyer.” […]

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Pat Kapowich,
Real Estate Broker, ABR, CRS, GRI, SRES
“Negotiating Smooth Transactions Throughout The South Bay”
SiliconValleyBroker.com

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Buyer Beware?! What About Seller Beware?
How Sellers and/or their Licensees ask for Trouble
These licensees have literally been trained to set up tripods
with blown-up neighborhood maps, color coding the sales in the
area, in order to gain new buyer and seller clients. Yet, they
convince the seller that all this extra work is for them, the seller!
Setting up […]

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Recently while holding Open Houses, some “customers” asked if I would represent “both buyer and seller” (dual-agency) and if so, would they “get a good deal?” Usually, I ask them to finish viewing the home, first. The questions customers usually ask at an Open House are very telling of current trends: When is the […]

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Buyer Beware?! What About Seller Beware?
How Sellers and/or their Licensees ask for Trouble
These licensees have literally been trained to set up tripods
with blown-up neighborhood maps, color coding the sales in the
area, in order to gain new buyer and seller clients. Yet, they
convince the seller that all this extra work is for them, the seller!
Setting up […]

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Recently while holding Open Houses, some “customers” asked if I would represent “both buyer and seller” (dual-agency) and if so, would they “get a good deal?” Usually, I ask them to finish viewing the home, first. The questions customers usually ask at an Open House are very telling of current trends: When is the […]

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Buyer Beware?! What About Seller Beware?
How Sellers and/or their Licensees ask for Trouble
These licensees have literally been trained to set up tripods
with blown-up neighborhood maps, color coding the sales in the
area, in order to gain new buyer and seller clients. Yet, they
convince the seller that all this extra work is for them, the seller!
Setting up […]

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Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News
Q: Our appraisal of the property we are purchasing states the home is 300 sq ft smaller than stated in all of the marketing. We feel the price should reflex a smaller home, but the sellers, their agent and even our own agent feels […]

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KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE #139

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