Kai

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Navigating the Short Sale Mine Field

March 22, 2010 - 4:24 pm

Tags: bank package, banks, short sale, successful short sales
Posted in Don't Look At Me, I Am Just the Assistant | 1 comment

How does Alise manage to complete so many short sales, when the national average for short sales that actually close is hovering around 60%? She takes it seriously. Alise doesn’t look as short sales as a way to get “leads” for buyers looking for a bargain- all the while hoping to direct their attention to an [...]

Kailee Vs. Green

March 21, 2010 - 4:36 pm

Tags: gardening, green thumb, kids, planting
Posted in Don't Look At Me, I Am Just the Assistant | No comments

Gardening does not come naturally to me. I can say this definitively, because I have several family members who do not own worn copies of Potted Plants for Dummies. Somehow, their begonias continue to blossom, while mine curl into grayish blobs. Their philodendrons remain firm and green, while mine shed leaves as if every day [...]

The Pursuit of Mediocrity

March 20, 2010 - 4:48 pm

Tags: Chores, dishes, kids
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The clean dishes are stacked up, high. Not in an orderly, space maximizing fashion. Like some twisted game of Jenga, they are precariously stacked with odd shaped jutting out from every side. I can’t ascertain where to start. I do know that if I choose the wrong piece, the entire stack will clatter into the [...]

The Sound of Muzak

December 27, 2009 - 9:08 pm

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Last week, as I began my weekly calls to the short sale departments of a couple dozen banks, I believed I was fully armed. A stack of files with any and every possible document the negotiator might request. The same documents open in electronic form on the computer. The laptop was open and ready to make notes in [...]