Crescent City Real Estate News: January 2010

Client testimonial for RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods agent Fran Gatti in Crescent City, CA.

One of the positive outcomes of the real estate market decline has been the opportunity for buyer's who have been priced out of the market. 

I inadvertently seem to have found a niche in helping first time home buyer's, especially single woman my age - not telling you what that is - purchase a home.

Handing the keys to a home buyer is exciting, but handing them to a first time home buyer who NEVER thought they would be able to afford a home...ever, well that's priceless.

Following is an email I received from a wonderful woman who purchased her first home last week.  

In September of 2009 I started looking for my first home.  My loan was approved and I contacted a local real estate agent in Crescent City to help me.  After almost 3 months I found myself getting more and more frustrated with the process, and I started wondering if I'd ever get an accepted offer on a house.  After many disappointments, I decided it was time to change agents and see if my luck changed.  I contacted Fran Gatti and that was the best decision I could have made.  She kept me informed throughout the process and really worked hard for me.  I finally felt like I could relax, because I found an agent that was looking out for me.  Thanks to Fran I'm sitting in my new home and I couldn't be happier. 
                                                                                                   

                                                                                                              Amy Simonetti
 

Give me a call if you think you are priced out of the market.  You may be surprised what we can do for you at RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods.  

 

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No one sold more homes in Del Norte County in 2009, 2010 and 2011--*in units sold and volume--than Fran Gatti. Put Fran to work for you!

 

Brought to you by Fran Gatti at  No one works harder for you!  Bus: 707-464-5400, Cell: 707-218-8162 Email: frangatti@remax.net Website: FranGatti.com My Blog: Fran's Blog RDCPro®, CDPE® CA lic 01723796

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The first annual RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods Client Appreciation Event was a huge success!

On Friday, January 8, 2010, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm, my office had a client appreciation event to thank all our wonderful clients. 

Not only did we thank our clients, but we introduced our newest agent, Ana Hartwick, who joined our office just a few days before the big event.

RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods couldn't be happier.  Ana is a wonderful addition to the RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods team. 

Ana is consistently a top producing agent with a stellar reputation for being friendly, prompt and professional and will compliment and be an asset to the rest of the RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods staff.

Our Client Appreciation Event was quite a success.  We invited our clients to drop by and celebrate with over 400 invitations being sent out. Our staff thought we would be lucky to get even half of the invitees to attend, but our best estimates are that a minimum of 250 clients and support professionals, i.e. title people, lenders, appraisers, etc. attended.

The venue we chose for this event was the Hampton Inn in Crescent City situated on the ocean.  Our guests got to watch a beautiful sunset over the Pacific and dine on the finest spread many guests say they have ever seen.

There was fabulous music, a large screen T.V. playing a DVD of our clients listings and we raffled off some wonderful gifts.

I was honored to have my Broker/Owner's present me with a plaque for being the number one producer in Del Norte County both in volume and number of sales for 2009. 

Bob and Michelle Barber prepared all the food for the event AND decorated.  They did a top notch job and we can not thank them enough.

If you missed the invitation only event, cheer up, we are going to have one again.  You have to be a client to attend though, so come on in and see what we can do for you at RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods!

 

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Thank you for stopping by. Your comments on this post are welcomed and appreciated.
No one sold more homes in Del Norte County in 2009, 2010 and 2011--*in units sold and volume--than Fran Gatti. Put Fran to work for you!

 

Brought to you by Fran Gatti at  No one works harder for you!  Bus: 707-464-5400, Cell: 707-218-8162 Email: frangatti@remax.net Website: FranGatti.com My Blog: Fran's Blog RDCPro®, CDPE® CA lic 01723796

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I stopped using Outlook, which made my computer run better, way better, and that made it happy. Well, I know it made me happy. 

I've been using Outlook on both my work computer and my laptop I keep at home for many years.  I use it because I like the way it presents my email, the ease of use of the folders and a few other reasons which escape me at the moment, but mainly for the first two reasons.

I started out using the contact manager but moved over to the contact manager program my MLS provides with our MLS program.  With that program I can set-up automatic notifications of listings, put my contacts into several different groups, do groups mailings of listings and lots more. I didn't want to duplicate information into two different programs (I'm trying to save time, not create more work for myself). 

I started having problems with both computers well over a year ago.  The problems started small, my computer ran slower, Outlook would shut-down at times, which I found VERY frustrating, but I powered on through. 

I had my tech guy check it out and he did stuff that seemed to fix the problem...for awhile, but I started having the same problems again and they got worse.  My husband told me it was Outlook from the beginning, but you know how that goes?  What does he know?  He's not a tech guy?  So, I ignored him and powered on through. 

My husband uses gmail and so do a lot of my clients.  I took a look at gmail, but missed my Outlook reading pane and just couldn't make the switch.  Then about a week or so ago, the problems were making my computer so slow, I couldn't blog!  That was the last straw.  I set-up my gmail account and have been using it ever since.

What I like the most about gmail (it's still very new to me) is ONE email account to deal with that is always current and up-to-date.  The label feature is OK, but I miss Outlooks folders and especially the reading pane.  I made my decision to stick with gmail, though, because my computers, both of them, have NEVER RUN BETTER and that is so important to me in my business. 

If you use gmail I am trying to figure out how to put one label inside another label (I don't think it can be done) or find a work around for it.  I make a label (in gmail, but in Outlook it was a folder) for each client and group them in active, inactive, closed, etc. I can not find a way to group the labels in gmail.  Any assistance you can offer would be very appreciated.  Thanks ahead of time.

 

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Thank you for stopping by. Your comments on this post are welcomed and appreciated.
No one sold more homes in Del Norte County in 2009, 2010 and 2011--*in units sold and volume--than Fran Gatti. Put Fran to work for you!

 

Brought to you by Fran Gatti at  No one works harder for you!  Bus: 707-464-5400, Cell: 707-218-8162 Email: frangatti@remax.net Website: FranGatti.com My Blog: Fran's Blog RDCPro®, CDPE® CA lic 01723796

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