Pat’s next De Anza class features guest speaker Real Estate Attorney Julia Wei!
Managing Risk, Expectations & Results with Lender Controlled Properties
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 [...]

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Kapowich on Real Estate ~ Top Ten

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Pat’s next De Anza class features guest speaker Real Estate Attorney Julia Wei!
Managing Risk, Expectations & Results with Lender Controlled Properties
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 [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We arrived home after last Sunday’s open house to find the listing agent had removed his signs, fliers and the Realtor key safe with the spare key to our home still inside it. We feel this is a breach of contract as we are only five weeks [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: Recently, during the showing of our home, a buyer’s real estate agent broker the key off in the deadbolt. This agent has repeatedly refused to pay the locksmith’s bill. The lock had worked fine for years. Who should pay for the locksmith’s bill?

A: Do you think the [...]

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KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE – Sunnyvale, CA 94086 – Silicon Valley Broker.com Video

Pro & Cons of Reverse Mortgages
As a HUD Certified Counseling Agency, Project Sentinel provides state mandated neutral Reverse Mortgage counseling at no cost to seniors. Shareen Kilgore and Martin Eichner of Sunnyvale’s Project Sentinel are local experts on Reverse Mortgages.
Topics included in their recently [...]

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We have a foreclosure on our street, which has become a blight in this once quaint neighborhood. Needless to say, the agents handling this property are unresponsive and uncooperative. My husband is handling the 4-foot weeds and even picked up nine weekly newspapers from the front lawn. [...]

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KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE – Sunnyvale, CA 94086 – SiliconValleyBroker.com Video

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Pat Kapowich for the San Jose Mercury News
Q: We are selling our house and the buyer’s home inspector is recommending further inspection of the sub-area by an appropriate professional. We don’t feel this is warranted, as our pre-sale inspection noted basically the same observations and comments. Should we grant an extension to the buyer for [...]

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KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE – Sunnyvale, CA 94086 – Silcon Valley Broker Video

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