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There Are Good People Out There!

Liz and Bill Spear RE/MAX Elite Warren County Ohio: Cincinnati to Dayton, Liz and Bill Spear (513.265.3004 www.LizTour.com)
There Are Good People Out There! Listen to the news and you'd think the entire world has gone to hell in a handbasket. It's gotten so bad that our local newspaper has a weekly section called "Good News". REALLY, we've gotten to the point…

Oui Madame in Winnetka

Margaret Goss, Winnetka Realtor Winnetka & North Shore IL Homes for Sale (Baird & Warner Real Estate)
Oui Madame in Winnetka Oui Madame is one of my favorite stores - being a long-time, committed, undeniable, and wholehearted Francophile, I was tres happy to see Oui Madame come to town. The store Oui Madame was opened by Vicki Hofstetter..

I FOUND MY KEYS NOW WHERE'S MY CAR?

Alan Kirkpatrick, Alan In Austin Texas (Austin Texas Homes)
Author Florence Littauer tells a story of how she drove to a local mall one day went shopping for several hours and returned to the garage to fetch her car. On the way she realized she had left her keys in the last store she had visited…

BOA Have a Heart!!!

Gail Robinson, REALTOR, e-PRO Fairfield County, CT (William Raveis Real Estate, Southport, CT)
BOA SENT ME A DECLINE LETTER TODAY AS MY HUSBAND WAS BEING ADMITTED INTO HOSPICE I made all the trial loan modification payments on time over the phone via my BOA Customer Relationship Manager, yet today I received a FedEx letter stating that my…

Have You Seen Mount Shasta?

Tom Arstingstall - Dry Rot, Water Damage General Contractor in Sacramento (Dry Rot and Water Damage www.tromlerconstruction.com )
Mount Shasta is the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth highest in California at 14, 170 feet above sea level. It is unique because it is not a part of a mountain range; it stands alone and can be seen for about 140 miles from…

Be Direct When Communicating with Your Clients

Kathy Sheehan (Prospect Mortgage)
Be direct when you are communicating with your clients. Be direct when you are communicating with your business partners. Be direct when you are communicating with anyone in a business transaction. Words that are frequently used in our…

Not in writing? Not an offer.

Susan Mangigian, Chester County Homes Delaware and Chester County Offices!, Susan Mangigian, Chester & Delaware County Homes (RE/MAX Preferred, West Chester, PA, RS152252A)
As a listing agent, I have a fiduciary obligation to present all offers to a seller. When a buyer's agent calls me and says that their buyer wants to make a less than optimal offer on a listing, and in the interest of saving time (their time), they…

Do Real Estate Sales STOP on Weekends?

Scott Godzyk, One of Manchester NH's Leading Agents (Godzyk Real Estate Services)
What happens to Real Estate on the weekend? Where are all the agents? Just a couple of questions I was asking myself after getting repeated inquiries direct from buyers and trying to set up appointments this weekend. Unanswered phones, messages and…

Special and Unique Holidays: June 2013

Donna Foerster, Metro Denver Real Estate Agent (Rocky Mountain Real Estate Advisors)
Special and Unique Holidays: June 2013 What holidays and special occassions will you celebrate in the month of June? Many will be celebrating Father's Day. Here a few unusual holidays that you might like to celebrate along with the birthdays…

The sun will come out tomorrow!

Peter den Boer,MBA,GRI,ABR, Associate Broker (Keller Williams)
And tomorrow is today! OMG! The rain has really been coming down this year. This weekend was yet another rainy one. Rainy days are great for one thing though, showing homes! I showed a home yesterday in the rain. When you look at a home after much…

Challenge: Crowdsourcing the Way to More Referrals

Bob Stewart, Bob Stewart - Community Evangelist, ActiveRain (ActiveRain)
The "Aha" (OK, it wasn't really an "aha", it was more of a 'dang, that many? ') In a webinar recently about (link to recording of the webinar) generating seller leads I opened the discussion by asking the audience where their last listing…

Understanding Aluminum Wiring

Sean Thornton (Thornton Safety and Inspection, LLC)
Thornton Safety and Inspection - Home Inspection Specialist 601-214-6569 Home Inspections - Brandon, MS; Jackson, MS and all of Central MS www. thorntoninspection. com Sean@thorntoninspection. com https://www. facebook. com/thorntoninspection Here are…

6000 sq ft of nasty!

Charles Buell, Seattle Home Inspector, Charles Buell, Seattle Home Inspector (Charles Buell Inspections.com)
Most inspectors will tell you that they don’t like crawl spaces. Like Mickey Rourke in Barfly would say (not about crawl spaces, but about cops), “I just feel better when they are not around. ” The problem is that crawl spaces…

Household Scents, Both Good and Bad

Bill Primavera (Coldwell Banker Residential Realty)
When it comes time to sell a house, there are many issues to be addressed to make it attractive to prospective buyers, from curb appeal to functionality of all systems, and realtors are eager to provide advice to guide sellers through the process of…

MORE Rental Applicants MOVING with their ADULT Children * I need to SCREEN Them ALSO

Wallace S. Gibson CPM *, LandlordWhisperer (Gibson Management Group, Ltd.)
For years, I have PREscreened applicants prior to scheduling viewings of my OCCUPIED rental homes. While properties appear VACANT on my website, they are actually OCCUPIED by current residents who are leaving at the end of their current lease term…

Where NOT to hide your Jewels and Cash in the House

Valerie Zinger (House Proud Ottawa-Ontario-Canada)
I have been robbed twice in my lifetime, once while I was not home during the day and the other while I was sleeping. These thefts happened a long time ago. I don’t live in fear and I did learn a few good lessons. The first is that the thieves…

Electrical Hidden Treasures!

Jay Markanich - N. Virginia Home Inspector (Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC)
On two successive inspections I encountered electrical hidden treasures! One house was remodeled recently and the other decades ago! The house on the left had a new kitchen arrangement, including cabinets. I tripped one of the kitchen GFI…

In the eyes of a child . . .

Mike Cooper (Winchester Real Estate Sales, Cornerstone Business Group Inc)
Most days in real estate are pretty similar. There are the typical events that each deal goes through, and for the most part, it's pretty routine. I did an open house Saturday, and then I had to race back to town to meet a new client. The new client…

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