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Top 3 Home Selling Pitfalls That Could Cost You Tens of Thousands!

March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Your home is likely your largest asset and the goal when selling your home should be to sell it for top market price, in the shortest amount of time, while minimizing complications! To achieve this goal, you must make sure not to commit one of the top 3 pitfalls that I see homeowners make, which could cost you tens of thousands of dollars in the sale of your home, not to mention frustration, delay and complications in the sale. Top 3 Pitfalls that could cost you tens of thousands when … [Read more...]

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Carbon Monoxide Detectors Now Required

June 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Effective July 1st, 2011, all residential homes in California require carbon monoxide detectors. Below is a Q&A regarding this new law. Q 1. What is carbon monoxide? A Carbon monoxide is a gas produced whenever any fuel, such as gas, oil, kerosene, wood, or charcoal, is burned.  A person cannot see or smell carbon monoxide.  However, at high levels carbon monoxide can kill a person in minutes. In addition, there are well-documented chronic health effects of acute carbon … [Read more...]

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Los Angeles Housing Prices at About 2003 – 2004 Levels

April 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Wondering where we currently are on the historical housing price graph? Right around 2003 - 2004 levels. As you can see, after the real estate bubble "popped," the housing low appears to have been in early 2009.  From there, we did see an up-tick in real estate prices in 2010. Currently, we are experiencing interestingly low inventory levels in most areas and plenty of demand fueled by low interest rates and reasonably high FHA loan limits in the L.A. area, allowing buyers to put as … [Read more...]

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The Arts in Santa Monica

March 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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A Guide to the Arts in Santa Monica A is for Art... Want to discover the art scene is Santa Monica?  Well read on!  Welcome to this week's blog post about the ABC's of Santa Monica and Santa Monica homes.  Santa Monica homes are located in a city rich with cultural and artistic possibilities. Santa Monica is home to some excellent museums such as The California Heritage Museum, The Santa Monica Pier Aquarium and The Santa Monica Museum of Art located in hip Bergamot … [Read more...]

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TRADE UP! 5 reasons why this is the BEST market to upgrade!

March 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Have you thought about getting that bigger, better house in a better neighborhood? NOW IS THE TIME! Whether you need more space, want to upgrade your location, or for any other reason, the current real estate market presents a unique opportunity to capitalize by trading up! 5 reasons why this is the best market to trade up! 1. You will make money NOW on the trade! Here's how this works. You currently own a condo that was worth $1,000,000 three years ago, and now it's worth … [Read more...]

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Our Approach For Sellers

February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Danny Batsalkin believes in creating a partnership with each client, aimed purely and simply at helping you achieve your real estate goals. If you are considering moving, your goals are undoubtedly to sell your home quickly and for top market price, while minimizing complications and issues. To that end, Danny Batsalkin has designed a VIP Seller Program for clients of the Batsalkin Group. The crux of the Program is our proven 21-Point Plan of Action that is followed rigorously on … [Read more...]

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The 7 things you better know before listing your Los Angeles home for sale

February 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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It's pretty amazing that when consumers need to buy a car, they visit multiple dealerships and spend hours online doing research to save a few hundred, or maybe a thousand dollars. And yet, when it's time to hire a real estate agent in Los Angeles to represent them in a transaction worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, people hire their neighbor or family member without doing any research at all. The truth is that, even with the recent downturn in the industry and many … [Read more...]

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