Cynthia Cummins 1/22/22 Cynthia Cummins 1/22/22

For Agents Only: Talk Your Buyers OUT of Writing an Offer

Whenever there’s a strong emotional response from a buyer, encourage them to slow down and let the initial attraction cool. Then consider carefully.

Cynthia Cummins 12/17/21 Cynthia Cummins 12/17/21

Try a Little Tenderness

You can’t know the whole story by seeing only its ending.

Cynthia Cummins 11/19/21 Cynthia Cummins 11/19/21

Goose Bumps and Full Service Real Estate

And while my job as a Realtor can be quite lovely and even glamorous, there are always times when I have to improvise and do the job nobody else wants to do: Use a paper clip to unlock the bedroom door where an open-house visitor has inadvertently trapped the tenants’ cats. Clean up raccoon poop from the tradesway.

Cynthia Cummins 11/6/21 Cynthia Cummins 11/6/21

Someone Asked Me What Home Was

Someone asked me what home was, and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your rib cage

Cynthia Cummins 10/16/21 Cynthia Cummins 10/16/21

A KitchenAid Pro Mixer Lament

Just the sight of the KitchenAid pro mixer stirs the slurry of regret that lingers at the bottom of my heart.

Cynthia Cummins 8/7/21 Cynthia Cummins 8/7/21

Seven Secrets to Seller Success and Satisfaction

Your agent loves you like nobody else. I am your biggest fan and I am likely the only professional – during your entire lifetime – who will love you as unconditionally as an ideal mother.

Cynthia Cummins 7/17/21 Cynthia Cummins 7/17/21

For Agents Only: Stop Selling

The intimacy of my work is breathtaking, and it continually shoves me up against my own humanity.

Cynthia Cummins 6/19/21 Cynthia Cummins 6/19/21

This is Not My Beautiful House

Over my years of working with couples – in an up-close -and-personal manner that is not unlike that of a marriage counselor – I’ve learned that nobody has a perfect partnership.

Cynthia Cummins 6/5/21 Cynthia Cummins 6/5/21

Staging IS Rather Silly, Isn’t It?

Why can’t we do something more sustainable and real and commonsensical?

Cynthia Cummins 5/15/21 Cynthia Cummins 5/15/21

Working Girls (or Two or More is Like None)

Hooking up with two agents in San Francisco is like dating two people in a small town.

Cynthia Cummins 4/17/21 Cynthia Cummins 4/17/21

Wharton, Hemingway and Strange Houses

“Everything in the great empty house smelled of dampness: the stuffing of the chairs, the threadbare folds of the faded curtains, the splendid tapestries, that were fading too…”

Cynthia Cummins 3/13/21 Cynthia Cummins 3/13/21

Bats, Roof Beams, Metaphors

“I share my house with a colony of bats.”

Cynthia Cummins 2/6/21 Cynthia Cummins 2/6/21

Remove all Traces of Human Use when Showing a Home

What the new homeowner decides to do with your old house doesn’t really matter.

Cynthia Cummins 1/30/21 Cynthia Cummins 1/30/21

Let the Cat Come Back

You don’t seem to be bleeding too badly.

Cynthia Cummins 11/21/20 Cynthia Cummins 11/21/20

Scrap the Sentimental: A Worthy Thanksgiving Tradition

When in doubt, simply throw it out.

Cynthia Cummins 11/7/20 Cynthia Cummins 11/7/20

Let the Whole World Belong to You

throughout history, there are and have been countless bloody conflicts arising from the acquisition of dirt. The claiming and defending of territory is one of the main causes of wars.