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	<title>Real Estate Syndicate</title>
	<link>http://re-syndicate.com</link>
	<description>Featuring the thoughts, adventures, scripts, ramblings and soliloquies of a real estate guru.</description>
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		<title>When will the Real Estate Broker be needed again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Housing construction and sales have always followed job growth. Looking around and seeing the number of layoffs from companies like Pfizer, Texas Instruments, GM, Boeing, Motorola, Sprint, Microsoft and Webcor one would think that times are grim. I personally think that when companies start to let go of employees, these were a lagging indicator of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2010/05/27/when-will-the-real-estate-broker-be-needed-again/</link>
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		<title>What is the future of Real Estate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Redfin to Century Homes what does the future of real estate mean to real estate brokers like myself. My first sale of 2010 was for a friend of mine. After spending 2009 thinking about buying a home, he calls me in January to find him a house. We took one week to find him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2010/02/23/what-is-the-future-of-real-estate/</link>
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		<title>Welcome Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after GoDaddy destroyed my content I am now left to rebuild the castle without my foundation. I guess I should start off fresh, but that is a great deal of work now down the drain.
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		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2010/02/23/welcome-back/</link>
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		<title>What a Difference? From Diego to the Bay.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a couple of years can make? I remember selling real estate in San Francisco back in 2003. Everything was selling. If the property had a parcel number it would sell. The fundamentals were just thrown out the door. Times have changed.
When I moved to Chula Vista in July of 2007, we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2008/09/21/what-a-difference-from-diego-to-the-bay/</link>
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		<title>What a difference a couple years can make.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a couple of years can make? I remember selling real estate in San Francisco back in 2003. Everything was selling. If the property had a parcel number it would sell. The fundamentals were just thrown out the door. Times have changed.
When I moved to Chula Vista in July of 2007, we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2008/09/18/what-a-difference-a-couple-years-can-make/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes clients are just enigmas, ..riddled with facts.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I received an email from a client of mine. I called him to discuss a short sale offer that had recently received an approval for an offer that was submitted almost three months earlier. We were just waiting for the documentation. Our discussion sort of drifted away from our deal-in-waiting and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2008/08/23/sometimes-clients-are-just-enigmas-riddled-with-facts/</link>
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		<title>The Fall Out Continues.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all of the fall out that has already occurred with the sub prime mortgage debacle. I wanted to address an old addition that home buyers over the last 7 years typically avoided but had to deal with. Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) is a premium that can be paid upfront or built into the loan. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2008/05/11/the-fall-out-continues/</link>
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		<title>Negotiating with the Best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do your homework? Preparation for the negotiation process
Put together a gameplan

Research the property and know the property history
Research your opponent

Check how long they have been practicing
Research agency
Probe for insight


Identify Goal

Sale
Time (length of contract)



 Negotiating Tactics:

Pre-Conditioning

 Established when the other party makes a comment prior to negotiations either to establish a bench mark or set a standard. This can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2008/01/11/negotiating-with-the-best/</link>
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		<title>What should an overseas buyer expect to do when trying purchase a property in California?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look for a local agent that is familiar with the area.
Find the home either through the use of the internet

Find a title company that is familiar with international wires.

 

If the buyer is looking to get a loan for the purchase the title company does not require anything specifically from the buyer.

 

However, the lender may have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2007/12/19/what-should-an-overseas-buyer-expect-to-do-when-trying-purchase-a-property-in-california/</link>
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		<title>Only Three Days Left……</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Today’s most popular property is 4010 Villa Vera in Palo Alto. This 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms Silicon Valley townhouse features all the ingredients of a Miami South Beach hotel (pools, spas and high-net worth neighbors). Selling at $899,000, this property may be the answer to those late night urges to jump into the pool.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://re-syndicate.com/2006/12/28/only-three-days-left%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6/</link>
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