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	<title>Your Exceptional Life</title>
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	<description>Shining in the shadow of Mount Diablo</description>
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		<title>Is your agent working for you or against you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nice reward from working in December is that my book of business has blown up.  The day after Christmas, it was on.  I don&#8217;t think anybody went to the after Christmas sales.  They called me to buy a house.  And God bless every one of them, I am working like a fiend to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2012/01/15/is-your-agent-working-for-you-or-against-you/</link>
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		<title>Why I love the holidays and you should too!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the 5th of December.  Traffic is already lighter.  The holidays are in the air.  Black Friday is in our rear view mirror and many real estate agents are winding down their year.  Many stopped clear back on Thanksgiving.  Good for them. I didn&#8217;t.  And I won&#8217;t.  And I never will. Why?  Because while my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/12/05/why-i-love-the-holidays-and-you-should-too/</link>
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		<title>Why banks will now help you short sale your home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often say “If you don’t like the market just wait 10 minutes”.  Has it been 10 minutes? There has been lots of talk about the shadow inventory and what it is going to do to the market.  What we are seeing now is that banks don’t want to take a property back unless they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/11/27/why-banks-will-now-help-you-short-sale-your-home/</link>
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		<title>Climate Action vs. Economic climate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Fremont has been working on a Climate Action Plan. The City of Berkeley has been working on one as well. I believe it is all well meaning and well needed. The City of Fremont actually stared down the bull on this one. The ever-evolving and swiftly-changing policy and regulatory landscape concerning greenhouse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/10/22/climate-action-vs-economic-climate/</link>
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		<title>Beware the FHA vortex, the jaws that snap!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this evening I gave a really nice man keys to his new home.  I love, love, love doing that. Now his new home wasn&#8217;t the prettiest girl at the dance, trust me.  If they were playing Stairway to Heaven, this girl was going home alone if not for my buyers.  The last remodel took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/10/05/beware-the-fha-vortex-the-jaws-that-snap/</link>
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		<title>Is your agent letting other agents know your property is for sale?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have five buyers right now all looking for something similar.  Each buyer has their own little ticklers which makes them a little different from the other, but the MLS search is the same.  I&#8217;ll look at each new property that goes out to them and think &#8220;Oh they won&#8217;t like this one but Bob [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/09/05/is-your-agent-letting-other-agents-know-your-property-is-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>Buyers want to buy, do sellers really want to sell?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are strange goings on in the market today. It is a full moon, but that doesn&#8217;t explain what&#8217;s going on.   I&#8217;m wondering if Bill Compton is secretly battling the werewolves somewhere on our behalf.  It&#8217;s been building for about three weeks. There are buyers out there but the inventory is stale. Really stale. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/08/12/337/</link>
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		<title>Normal people can get a loan and buy a house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stock market is the gift that just keeps on giving, having dumped another 500 points yesterday.  Everybody&#8217;s locked in on the stock market right now.  And few know what it means. I used to be a stock broker.  While I love the flashing numbers on the screen and the art of picking the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/08/11/normal-people-can-get-a-loan-and-buy-a-house/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again, all business is cyclical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really wanted to talk about something else tonight, but sometimes a story is just too good to be true.  This week is the gift that keeps on giving. There&#8217;s your two day chart.  That&#8217;s right, the Dow Jones Industrial average picked up 429.92 points.  Nearly 4%.  Bank of America which lost 20% of it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/08/09/ive-said-it-before-and-ill-say-it-again-all-business-is-cyclical/</link>
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		<title>The more things change, the more they stay the same.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s the 10 year chart. There&#8217;s the 4 year chart. You can see the mess of 2008 in there.  And now you get to see today&#8217;s bloodletting.   Bank of America, a mainstay of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) took a whacking today.  It&#8217;s about time.  If you are one of the poor schmucks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2011/08/08/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same/</link>
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