I attended a San Diego real estate luncheon last week and was handed a booklet with identical questions posed to agents--along with their printed answers. The questions were solid and most of the answers made sense. But I nearly choked on a piece of broccoli when I read this statement from a well-known agent in our area:
"Buyers are still and always will be liars. Don't talk about all the details of our business with people."
In our real estate practice, we work with a number of buyers (which our sellers appreciate) and are dismayed that any real estate professional could make such a statement. With very few exceptions, our buyers are terrific. Most are candid and open and we do everything possible to honor and live up to such levels of trust.
And we are not alone. Most agents we know respect their buyers and work very hard to represent their best interests. But the old "buyers are liars" is a tired rhyme that still makes the rounds and I am inclined to think that you get what you expect. And if you expect the world to betray you, it will.
Most bothersome, though, is the admonishment to not "talk about all the details of our business with people." I beg to differ, because the details of our business are usually the business of our clients. They want and deserve to know what is going on with their transaction, what to expect, and anything else that strikes their fancy.
Somehow, I wish those statements and others like it could be torn from the pages of every sales playbook.
With a drumroll, let’s reveal and discuss the results of First Republic Bank’s 
but the lower end of the luxury market has slowed here as in other California markets. That bottom segment of the luxury market reflects homes priced from $1.5 to $3 million. Rising interest rates are blamed on the slowdown in that price range. 
for 30minutes and offers a 2.2–inch QVGA TFT LCD, a decent 1.3 megapixel camera and a .1 megapixel internal camera for video calls. Have a dirty phone? You can now wash it! Given the times that my cell phones have gotten that tell-tale internal red dot that reveals water exposure, I am thinking that a washable phone should be a must. A big thanks for this find goes to the SciFi Blog:
Luxury Clues’ Bernice Ross 
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Coastal La Jolla (92037), which is more populous than Rancho Santa Fe, has fewer active MLS listings with only 146--ranging in price from $900,000 to $22 million. There are 36 sales pending ranging from $990,000 to $5 million, and 129 sales recorded in the last six months. Prices ranged from $700,000 for a tiny town cottage (pictured) to $12 million for an oceanfront Camino de la Costa residence (left). Sales are obviously more brisk by the coast.
It is a bedroom appliance never seen in home decor magazines, model homes or in Feng-Shui-directed abodes. At the very least, bedroom televisions are hidden in cabinets because sleeping areas are seen as sacred sanctuaries and spaces. Yet, how many of us watch television-while in bed-and wish we could totally hide the evidence?