Often an Agent who is Clearly Apprehensive at the Thought of Presenting Your Offer “Live, in Real Time and in Person” is certainly not at the top of his/her game
Last year, I watched an interview with comedic writer/director/actor Harold Ramis. What resonated for me was his description of veteran actress Jane Lynch as “scary […]

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When I first saw Real Estate Attorney Anthony Ventura, of
Miller, Morton, Caillat & Nevis, it was at a seminar for Brokers
and Managers, sponsored by the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors.I wondered why he had such astute insight into the activities in and around
real estate transactions. […]

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Course Title: “The Most Costly Mistakes Made by Buyers, Sellers & Agents & How to Avoid Them”
Description: The number one mistake made when negotiating a residential real estate transaction is when participants lack understanding of the responsibilities of all of the parties and their representatives. Learn how to negotiate a state-of-the-art sales transaction from A […]

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Often an Agent who is Clearly Apprehensive at the Thought of Presenting Your Offer “Live, in Real Time and in Person” is certainly not at the top of his/her game
Last year, I watched an interview with comedic writer/director/actor Harold Ramis. What resonated for me was his description of veteran actress Jane Lynch as “scary […]

[Read more →]

Often an Agent who is Clearly Apprehensive at the Thought of Presenting Your Offer “Live, in Real Time and in Person” is certainly not at the top of his/her game
Last year, I watched an interview with comedic writer/director/actor Harold Ramis. What resonated for me was his description of veteran actress Jane Lynch as […]

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

In January, we taped another program in our series of Elder Financial Abuse.
The topic was Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices. Months later, all the media
were buzzing with the mortgage crisis of sub-prime lending, predatory practices and
foreclosure rescue scams. All of the attention was […]

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(Nov. 2006) To the Editor:
LEGAL REAL ESTATE SCAM
Whoever titled Sue McAllister’s Cover Story 10/28 titled “Real Estate industry reaping cash from online house-hunting” misled the public.
The realty industry pays the often unlicensed and/or out-of-state “internet lead-generation industry” for leads. Their industry’s phenomenal marketing is two fold: 1) TV, Print, Radio & Internet ads […]

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The program I am referring to as America’s Perfectly Legal Real Scam was live and on stage at the closing of Brad Inman’s real estate conference. Having seen Pryor, Dangerfield and Seinfeld-Live, I really think these execs could take their act on the road.
Online Lead Generation companies troll the internet for real estate leads, […]

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Since the late 80’s, I’ve notice in trend of incomplete disclosures and poorly trained licensees. No doubt there is a connection.
Real Estate Attorney Roger Wintel, of the Hertiage Law Group, has often spoken about the problematic lack of disclosures and unsupervised and/or poorly trained licensees.

Click here for the consumer-protection cable series, Kapowich on Real […]

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In fast moving markets, even the weaker licensees employed by sellers,
will provide a higher Standard-of-Care. However, when the market cools,
many licensees of all skill levels automatically provide their sellers with a
lower Standard-of-Care, which is counter-intuitive. One would think that in
a cooler market, everything in that licensee’s power would be brought to
bear to sell that […]

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