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, SJMN
Market Wise Column
Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Q: We are trying to view homes when they have an open house. However, in many cases the real estate agent insists that we sign a guest book, often referring us to a note stating the seller requires visitorsot provide personal information. Why […]

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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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Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News, SJMN
Market Wise Column
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Q: We sold our home in 2005 and are now being sued by the buyers. We were referred to a real estate attorney. When we told him the name of the attorney representing the buyers, he responded nonchalantly, “Oh, I know him, […]

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Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News, SJMN
Market Wise Column
Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Q: We are trying to view homes when they have an open house. However, in many cases the real estate agent insists that we sign a guest book, often referring us to a note stating the seller requires visitorsot provide personal information. Why […]

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Kapowich on Real Estate # 142

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Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News, SJMN
Market Wise Column
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Q: While shopping for a smaller home we have come across numerous real estate agents who seem, to put it bluntly, incompetent. What are they teaching at real estate schools how to be unprepared and ill-mannered?
A: Ouch. While it is true our industry […]

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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 […]

[Read more →]

KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE #139

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Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News, SJMN
Market Wise Column
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Q: We sold our home in 2005 and are now being sued by the buyers. We were referred to a real estate attorney. When we told him the name of the attorney representing the buyers, he responded nonchalantly, “Oh, I know him, […]

[Read more →]