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Pets – Are They Hurting Your Home Sale Success?

by Leslie Eskildsen July 20, 2010 Getting Ready to Buy a Home

Are there pet stains on your carpet?  Does your house smell like dog or cat pee?  Clean it up.  Immediately.  Is your home safe for buyers to be there, with your pets, when you are not there? Two things every home seller must be brutally honest about – are my pets stinking up my home [...]

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Escrow Mumbo Jumbo – Real Estate Jargon Translated into English

by Leslie Eskildsen July 18, 2010 Escrow Essentials

Every industry has its share of custom jargon – terms that insiders use amongst themselves as a kind of code language or short hand to communicate with each other.  This jargon comes across as Mumbo Jumbo to you and me.  Well, surprise, surprise -  the Real Estate biz is no different!  So here’s a translation [...]

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In Escrow? Meet 30 of Your New Best Friends

by Leslie Eskildsen July 13, 2010 Escrow Essentials

If you are a home buyer or a home seller in Orange County today, to complete the deal you have to make it through Escrow. And just like rides at Disneyland, your escrow may be as calm and uneventful as a trip on the Monorail, or as wild as Space Mountain – twists, turns, ups, downs, [...]

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Hot Home Seller Tip – Clean Up!!

by Leslie Eskildsen June 29, 2010 Home Sellers

Are you serious about selling your Orange County home in this tough Real Estate market?   Here’s a hot tip – clean up.  Especially the cigarette butts littering the back patio and the filthy cat box.  The stench alone will drive buyers away. There’s really no excuse for living in this sort of squalor, let alone [...]

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Trespassers Keep Out! Restricted Access – Only for Unsuccessful Home Sellers.

by Leslie Eskildsen June 26, 2010 Home Didn't Sell? Ouch.

Attention Orange County Home Sellers – doesn’t it suck that your house didn’t sell?  All those countless hours spent vacuuming and making beds and putting away your stuff and keeping dishes out of the sink and physically LEAVING YOUR HOME so complete strangers, who never make an offer, can look inside your drawers and closets [...]

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Yes, Orange County Home Buyer – You May Have to Make an Offer Sight Unseen!

by Leslie Eskildsen June 23, 2010 Home Buyers

Seriously – in the current Orange County Real Estate Market you may have to depend on your Realtor to do her job and find you a great house, help you submit an offer – even though you have never seen the home! Did you watch the video?? Did you hear how Toriana would have never [...]

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The Wild Wild West in Orange County Real Estate

by Leslie Eskildsen June 21, 2010 Getting Your Home Ready to Sell

This is surely the Wild Wild West in Orange County Real Estate.  The bear rug with the gaping mouth open and terror-invoking teeth sparkling in the sun greets you as you enter this BEDROOM decorated, no scratch decorated – try crammed to the gills (no pun intended) with trophies from the Great Hunter. This is [...]

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When to Change Paint, Wallpaper, and Carpet to Get Your Mission Viejo Home Sold

by Leslie Eskildsen June 19, 2010 Getting Your Home Ready to Sell

As a serious Mission Viejo home seller, you are obviously looking to get your home sold as quickly as possible for the most money possible - right? Does your house need to be painted to sell quickly for top dollar? Take the following quiz to find out: Are the walls painted to match the pastel wallpaper border [...]

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What’s This All About?

by Leslie Eskildsen June 19, 2010 Home Buyers

What is What Agents Fear Telling You all about? This is the one place you can count on to find the bottom line, the real deal, the no sugar-coating, the “tell it like it is” for Orange County, California Real Estate. For home sellers – you’ll find hot topics like: What you need to do to [...]

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