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7644 Franklin Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90069! SOLD!
7644 Franklin Ave, Los Angeles, 90069 View Lot in the Hollywood Hills SOLD!! There are always trials and tribulations in selling a property. In this case the buyer had his money in GOLD! Needless to say Gold has been tanking for the past 30 days. The buyer requested and extra week to close with the hope that the Price of Gold would improve. Sadly he took a hit for about 27%. The good news was he was a businessman and understood sometimes you gain and other times you lose. Needless to say he is thrilled to have the property and he can work on getting his dream home built with panoramic views of Downtown Los Angeles & Century City. He also got a fantastic deal and that makes up for the drop in value of the Gold. On a side note Escrow was extended an extra week so he could gain some of the money back. If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
read moreHow to get to Page one of Google, The Holy Grail… the dilemma…
How to get to Page one of Google: The Holy Grail of Realtors…the dilemma… Social Media Expert, SEO Experts, Internet Gurus, Successful Internet Realtors… The list goes on and on… Everyone has a point, everyone has a theory and the message is either mixed or polar opposite from each other. So what is a Realtor to do? We all wonder on how to get the attention of Home Sellers, everyone agrees on one point: Content and more so good content in a blog post is the key. Up to this point all the advice is the same, now this is where the directions change in the advice of all the experts. Before I address this point let me go back in time: Once the internet was accepted as a vehicle for communication, email eliminated or drastically reduced “snail mail” i.e.: what we used to call the Post Office and letters.( Sadly we lost an art, but that is another post) This was followed by Texting, for convenience, not having to have to wait to get to the “internet” this clearly shortened the length of the posts. Twitter came on the scene almost a decade ago, eight years to be exact. The message was clear: people have short attention spans and do not want to read long emails as well as their need for quick, short answers became the norm. Flutter has been around for a couple of years and their messages are shorter than Twitter’s this is all a continuation of shorter, faster and minimum attention span of the reader… Email marketers have noticed that if you do not like the Subject Line or it is not compelling you will not even bother to open the email. It just simply gets deleted at best saved for a later time to read which does not happen. So here is the Dilemma: The Gurus state that good content is needed for Google to index you. First the message was a good post has to be 300 words, and then it increased to 600 words. Now these experts are saying you need 1000 words to make Google happy. So my question is: great you got to Page One the Holy Grail with your 1000 word posts, but no one will read it? Let me know where I am going wrong? I am Looking for advice, input and thoughts: what do you think and why? If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
read moreWhat would you do if trying to submit an offer and your laptop crashes
Trying to submit an offer and my laptop crashes….. Today was a stressful afternoon, my Windows was running slow, so I tried to reboot a few times finally I got annoyed and figured I shut it off…keep in mind I am about to submit an offer on a $5.3million dollar listing. As I am about to shut down, Windows tells me that there are”… 14 updates…” generally that is a 15 minute maximum event…Not today it took two hours to finally update the 14 updates. When the computer shut off, I immediately turned it on and that is when trouble started. Numerous attempts later it was clear that the Windows update killed the laptop. Now it has been 2.5 hrs and I am overdue to submit the offer. The good news was Diane left her laptop at home so I called to see if I could use hers…. 45 minutes later offer is submitted. Three hours and going strong my Laptop is still down, various attempts later and letting it sit for about 30 minutes I am back on my laptop. So no thanks to Windows updates… With that said how would you have handled this drama? Offer is to be submitted ASAP. One buyer is in Texas on business the other buyer is local. DocuSign, Zipforms, The MLS, and someone else’s Laptop. Technology is Great when it works and frustrating when it does not! If you were in my shoes what would you have done, inquiring minds want to know? On a side note I texted and emailed the agent asking to confirm receipt…still waiting… If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
read moreAs a new first time home owner, if you just received your first Los…
As a new first time home owner, if you just received your first Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Bill (LA DWP), it should now cause you to get a Myocardial Infarcton you should just laugh it off and call the LA DWP first thing in the morning. Keeping in mind no matter how good an advice I give, not everyone listens when they should… the buyer could not sleep all night emailed me her invoice. Clearly $3,146.27 for a two week period of time is a mistake. I have had clients who had seven thousand square feet of living space with half an acre of land and their monthly bill was under $800. I suggested to her to call the LA DWP in the morning and not stress, clearly this is a mistake. She in turn emailed me about previous errors that DWP had on the News in November 2013 as they were switching over to a new computer program/system and they have caused many new home owners as well as existing home owners some stress i.e.: about 70,000 people were affected by it. See link http://abc7.com/archive/9342447/ . Needless to say I reassured her, that those problems were fixed. This must be clearly a human error. First thing in the morning she did call LA DWP and needless to say after a 35 minute stressful wait she did get a person to help. Manually she had to read the meter and it became evident that the person who was to read the meter at the change of ownership did not do his or her job. The problem was corrected in twenty minutes due to her not being familiar with where the meters were for water as well as electricity. The bottom line was within a few days a new bill was to be sent to the new home owner for $183.32. So from this experience I would like to recommend to all home owners especially the new owners: 1. 1. Do not put LA DWP on automatic payment from your Bank Account 2. 2. When you take the keys from the previous owner ask them to show you where the water and electric meters are (provided the owner is there) if not have the listing agent point them out. 3. 3. Then read the meter and call in to DWP with the figures. 4. 4. Lastly do not stress errors will happen and will get rectified. If you would have received this bill & or the call from you client what would you have done? If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue Organizations. ...
read moreI miss the Feature Button will it ever come back?
I miss the ability to press the Feature Button will it ever come back? I wonder as I see great posts who is seeing them? Who will select without our help the Featured Posts? Just wondering and thinking outloud. This is a private post feel free to let us know where it went and will it come back?? If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
read moreLooking for a Pet Friendly Realtor in Marina Del Rey or vicinity?
Looking for a Pet Friendly Realtor in Marina Del Rey or vicinity? Well you found him! Need advice with moving with pets? Reach out to me! Need help finding a Petfriendly Complex email me! If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
read moreSpeechless Sundays:Reminiscing about the Century City Statues
Speechless Sundays:Reminiscing about the Missing Century City Statues. Glad I took some pictures now they have been gone for almost a year! They made the concret jungle so much nicer…. If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
read moreSelling your home in Los Angeles how would you feel about a margin…
If you are selling your home in Los Angeles how would you feel about a margin of error of $580,000? If you are a seller in Los Angeles, would you be OK and call it a good evaluation of your home’s value by being off $580,000 about 86.6% of the time? This post was inspired by a post I saw on Google + today. Evidently Zillow.com has decided to publish a tracking sheet of how their Zestimates are doing Nationwide. By now the majority of home sellers and buyers are starting to get the message, which is: Zillow’s Zestimates are totally inaccurate. Never the less human nature in us wants to see “what our home is worth”. This has been around since the beginning of Real Estate. I still remember my father fourty years ago, bragging to his friends (pre Zillow days) that his home was worth X plus, because two or three similar homes near his home sold for more money than what he paid for. Realtors, Real Estate Agents and Real Estate Brokers have been putting Zillow on the Spotlight, about their inaccurate “valuations” of homes. Clearly this new Tracking Tool tells me that Zillow is on the defensive about this subject. I am familiar with my own market: The Los Angeles real estate market, therefore I will only address that part of the example stated above. First there are star ratings: Three Stars is considered Good by Zillow’s own standard. Let me get this into simple numbers, in my market: in Los Angeles, Zillow takes credit for being 86.6% of the time within 20% of the Sales Price. They seem to be proud that this is “Good= 3 stars”. This I find amazing. I am positive Los Angles Home Sellers would disagree with Zillow’s evaluation. They would not be pleased with a 20% margin of error on their homes evaluation. Using the example of $2,900,000.00 with a 20% margin of error, that is $580,000.00. Just to be clear this is their number not mine. If Zillow thinks that is an acceptable margin, well let me get a second opinion and ask you: If you are a home seller in Los Angeles, would you be OK and call it a good evaluation of your home’s value by being off $580,000 about 86.6% of the time? Not waiting to find out your answer I am thinking out loud, if I was off 86.6% of the time by 20% on all my listings do you think I would sell anything? If you are interested in reading their post, please see the enclosed link http://www.zillow.com/zestimate/#acc If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue Organizations. ...
read moreMotivation, Character & Community: all in the Guinness Empty Chair!
Usually I am not a big fan of passing on Commercials actually this is the first one I ever re-posted. I received this today and the message was so strong I had to share! Usually beer commercials are full of goofy characters and gags. This on the other hand carries an important message! As I said I could not help but share! The Guinness “Empty Chair” salutes the character of a community as they honor one of their own who is out of sight, but not out of mind. They remind us that a true test of character is what you do when no one’s looking. It is a very short one only 1.5 minutes, so please watch and let me know your thoughts! https://www.youtube.com/embed/rx0MRawkrj4 If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
read more3851 Rambla Orienta St, Malibu, CA 90265: Just LISTED!!!!
3851 Rambla Orienta St, Malibu, CA, 90265 Just LISTED!!!!! Another Vacant Lot by Endre Barath,Jr. The Land Specialist! Panoramic ocean views from this perfect Malibu view lot. Property includes fully paid and current deeded rights to the Malibu La Costa Beach and tennis Club. If you are a builder or developer this is your opportunity to build a Multi Million Dollar home. Geology Report is available for viewing. If you have been dreaming about building a home for yourself in Malibu this is the one for you. There is a large flat pad from a previous home that used to be on this property. One of the best view lots in Malibu close to everything including Santa Monica. Call or email listing agent if you have any questions. Please ask about seller financing. If you are a consumer who is considering buying or selling a home, investment real estate, vacation homes, or beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, Venice or Malibu. Feel Free to give me a call at 310.486.1002 or email me at homes@endrebarath.com or visit one of my websites at https://www.endrebarath.com Your Pet Friendly Realtor. I contribute a portion of my commission to Local Animal Rescue...
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