“Buying/Selling Real Estate in Today’s Market: What You Really Need to Know”
Guest Speaker: Real Estate Attorney Julia Wei
Date: July 11th, 2009
Time: 11AM to 12PM
Q&A/Refreshments to follow!
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 [...]

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Q ~ We sold our house in August 1998. Before the sale, an inspection
of the bathroom floor revealed some water damage. The inspector
did not find structural damage. We replace the vinyl and wood under
the floor. Later the inspector cleared the bathroom and the buyer
signed off on it. In June this year, the buyer [...]

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by Pat Kapowich
Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News, SJMN
Market Wise Column
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Q: We made an over-list price offer on a short-sale listing that was still occupied by the sellers. Our offer collected dust for more than seven weeks on the desk of the lender’s loss mitigator. Frustrated, we pulled our offer. Sure [...]

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Pat Kapowich for SJMN’s Market Wise Column

San Jose Mercury News 4/4/09

By Pat Kapowich

04/04/2009

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 [...]

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Kapowich on Real Estate # 146

You can reach Mark Garrison at (408) 842-5599
For more information visit www.MGConstructors.net

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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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Kapowich on Real Estate #143

Nancy Chillag
418 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
phone: 650-321-6796
email:nancy@chillag.com

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Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News, SJMN
Market Wise column on First Saturdays
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Pat Kapowich for SJMN’s Market Wise Column

Q: We’ve made a couple of offers on homes that were not accepted. Each offer was accompanied by a deposit check of 1 percent of our offered price. We since have decided to settle [...]

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Kapowich on Real Estate ~ Top Ten

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