Broker's Tour Tuesday
It has become apparent, that there are just not enough hours in a day to get everything accomplished. Both Nancy and I have a number of buyers we are currently showing homes to while managing our own listings. What I see suffering is my posting to our blog that I have been doing twice a week so I have decided once a week will have to do temporarily. I apologize in advance but our client's interests are just far more important than putting an article together. So with that, look for my posts on Tuesday mornings or Monday evenings until time allows or two- three more hours are added to the existing day. The latter I'm afraid we probably won't see until "hell freezes over".
Our Buena Vista Avenue income properties are getting a fair amount of showings. We are scheduling tours 
once a week and giving minimums of 48 hours notice to keep peace with the tenants. It is all working quite well for most with the exception of one tenant. Nobody has been able to decipher their issue with 48 hours notice yet. What we do know is that this tenant's son has really created a big problem for his mother. There are some things in life you just don't do, and one of them high on my list is to not argue with an attorney that has the ability to evict you. Last week it wasn't so much an argument as a show of force (lol) but the fact that the tenants son seemed to know more about real estate law than the attorney and he felt compelled to be sure the attorney knew his position on the law, ahem, which he found on an internet search. BIG mistake! After telling us we had just 5 minutes to show his mothers unit. He took it upon himself to block the doorway and not allow the others to tour for the last 3 minutes of what he construed from our 4 day notice was to be 5 minutes while he argued the point with the seller's attorney, see, we didn't put a specific timeframe in the letter just up to a twenty minute window. The result, he got his mother and he served with a three day notice to perform or quit, which I believe will be followed later this week with an eviction notice. It's too bad too, we just don't understand their irrational behavior.
This kind of reminds of those news reports when you here of someone charged with a crime who decides to defend themselves during court appearances. Anyone in their right mind just wouldn't consider doing so, and then there are the others willing to become the sacrificial lambs. Oh well another lesson to learn in the school of hard knocks.
We picked up a new GPS device on EBay a couple of months ago because we have been getting calls to show homes in neighboring cities to past clients. I like the fact that the GPS device we purchased allows you to create a tour. I add the addresses, set the route and it instructs how to get to the next place from 
the last, pretty neat. Oh it's also has voice recognition that works sometimes, it has to be quiet when you're speaking to it, I noticed the A/C in my truck skew what it hears. So I joined a Garmin Nuvi Yahoo group for tips and tricks and I want to share with you an idea I picked up off a contributors website. Yes, it's available for everyone to use. If you lock your GPS device for security reasons, this website made this photo available as a screensaver. What I did instead of deleting text was added text to the photo which covered the email address shown here with mine; I also added my home office telephone number. I especially like the line just below "THIS GPS IS LOCKED" for those of us that leave our GPS's in our vehicles throughout the day. Not all GPS devices allow you to add pictures to them, so I'd suggest checking your operating manual to see if your device allows this. Just click on the picture to the right and you should be taken to the website or just click here.
So what's going on in the real estate market in Alameda, just click on the headings below.
BROKERS TOUR TUESDAY
NEW
PRICE CHANGE
| LIST PRICE: | SOLD PRICE: | DOM: |
| HIGH | LOW | AVERAGE | MEDIAN | TOTAL PRICE | LISTING COUNT | $2,488,905 | $289,000 | $797,880 | $563,500 | $7,978,805 | 10 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 175 | 0 | 68 | 73 | | |
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PENDING
| LIST PRICE: | SOLD PRICE: | DOM: |
| HIGH | LOW | AVERAGE | MEDIAN | TOTAL PRICE | LISTING COUNT | $10,400,000 | $165,000 | $708,341 | $525,000 | $63,750,725 | 90 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | 340 | 0 | 52 | 25 | | |
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SOLD
| LIST PRICE: | SOLD PRICE: | DOM: |
| HIGH | LOW | AVERAGE | MEDIAN | TOTAL PRICE | LISTING COUNT | $699,000 | $359,900 | $565,252 | $570,000 | $6,217,780 | 11 | $659,000 | $373,900 | $555,309 | $570,000 | $6,108,400 | 95 | 0 | 24 | 18 | | |
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HOT LIST
This is a new heading that shows all activity in the last seven days.
| HIGH | LOW | AVERAGE | MEDIAN | TOTAL PRICE | LISTING COUNT | $2,488,905 | $5,010 | $575,198 | $549,000 | $54,068,614 | 94 | $659,000 | $373,900 | $555,309 | $570,000 | $6,108,400 | 326 | 0 | 37 | 13 | | |
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If you have any questions on any properties attached to the links above please call or email Nancy and I.
Ciao for now, Chuck
