This Week’s Story Time With Gary: The Sleepy Agent

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Today’s story did not happen to me, but it did happen to someone that I know. He had an open house on a Sunday and for whatever reason he did not
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This Week’s Story Time With Gary: Big Scary Husband

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Today I have another true story for you, and this occurred a long time ago, like 30 years ago. A woman had a home that did not sell, so she invited
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The Importance of Pre-Approval

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   One time, I received an offer on a home that came with a pre-approval letter. I called the lender and let them know that I received a pre-approval letter from the
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How Home Showings Work

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   How do showings work when you’re selling your San Diego home? This topic comes up all the time, and it’s an important one to be informed about if you want to
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White Elephants in San Diego

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   How can you avoid becoming a white elephant on the real estate market in San Diego? I have two different ways that you can avoid this when you sell a home
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower by Yhz1221 licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0
This week’s crazy building is Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, China. At 2,073 feet high, Shanghai Tower is the second tallest building on earth. It has an incredible 128 stories dedicated to a combination of office, retail and leisure space. In addition to its dizzying height, the tower has an unusual twisting facade. The main structure
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Dorton Arena

Dorton Arena by Leah Rucker licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0
This week’s crazy building is the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. Polish architect Maciej Nowicki designed an arena with the first cable-supported roof system on earth. Tragically, he was killed in a plane crash before construction began. Nowicki’s friend, another local architect named William Dietrick, was called upon make his vision a reality. Opened in 1952, Dorton Arena’s innovative design
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Value Range Pricing 101

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Today, I want to cover the topic of value range pricing, which is a very strange and particular strategy for pricing homes that is dominant here in San Diego. At one
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Grand Lisboa Hotel

Grand Lisboa Hotel by Harvey Barrison licensed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Grand Lisboa Hotel in Macau, China. This extravagant 856-foot building is a hotel casino featuring over a thousand slot machines and 800 gaming tables. There are two main elements to this fanciful golden resort: a dome-like enclosure that houses the gambling and dining, and the 47-story hotel portion that
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This Week’s Story Time with Gary: Open House Faux Pas

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   It’s time yet again for another edition of Storytime with Gary, where I share an interesting, funny, or strange story that I’ve experienced in my many years in real estate. Years
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