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Time to get serious... In yet another timely post by Poinciana's finest, Broker Bryant clues us in to what some of his readers are saying regarding NAR's "It's a great time to buy" campaign. If you haven't read his blog click on over and have a gander. TLW has issued a challenge of sorts to counter NAR"s sunshine-pushing position with a dose of reality. Well, here it is. While I realize the importance of a positive attitude I believe it's critical to not let hype override reality. Take NAR's campaign, for example. It may very well be a good time for … (47 comments)
Linking strategies is one area where I see that many people do not fully utilize. I know I didn't. I get so excited about getting my thoughts down on a post and then I forget to add internal links. This post is about internal linking strategies. 
Match Me with the beautiful baby challenge -January 2008 … (113 comments)
This post is not about which or whom is better...part-time vs. full-time. That topic has been beaten to death with not substantive conclusion. No, this post is about me and will hopefully help others like me in whatever capacity your operate.
TODAY I got three calls because of my participation in A/R, count them THREE! How great is that? Two calls were for appointments for doing proposals on properties and one was a major brokerage looking for a Staging Company to partner with...So exactly why did it take me so long to get going on A/R?
Since I noticed today that there are two new categories for flagging a post on AR (well, one is new and one was revived), I thought it would be worth informing everyone about this topic again. Also, I have recently told people in comments that I flagged them for a featured post, and they are surprised, as they didn't know that this was possible. 
I'm curious what other Realtors think about a virtual office scenario. So many of us work from home or meet clients on the road. Does the average consumer ever make it to your office anymore?
All Washington Real Estate Foreclosures are in Demand 
Help me help a brother out....my brother that is! No he is not competing with Activerain...he is a member here too! Lately we have become closer and closer due to our common interests. While I like building blogs....he likes building directories. 
I just ran some numbers that are very interesting...
I wanted to share with you all a wonderful company that makes great ecards. It's http://emailideas.com. It's easy to work with them and they can create it for you and you're able to if you want make your own changes. I just wanted to tell everyone because it's a great marketing tool.
So I have a theory. It's quite simple really and I have been proved right over and over and over again. Actually I have been proved right to the point where it's a little scary. 
Have a HeartforAlgonquin/LITH Food Pantry Re-Stock1/11/08 - 2/15/08 Share with your heart by donating much needed items to the pantry and in return you save!!Bring 5 items, get $5.00 instant savingsBring 10 items, get $10.00 instant savings List of what can be brought in:General: Cooking Oil, Sugar, Flour, Jelly, Macaroni & Cheese, Bagged Beans, Rice, Pasta, Pasta Sauce, Canned Veggies, Fruit cans or cups, Cereal, Pancake mixes, Snack Items, Crackers, soup extremely needed items:For Babies: Formula, Baby jar food, Boxed Cereal, Diapers, WipesPersonal Care Items: Toilet Paper, Shampoo (full size), Conditioner (full size), Soap, Toothpaste, Toothbrush, Deodorant, Feminine Care Products Household … (0 comments)
I have been in Real Estate for some time now and there are so many Buyers and Sellers, Real Estate Sales agents and even Brokers who do not know how to discern the difference between a Condominium and a townhouse. Actually it can be understood from different perspectives. Most of us think of a condominium as a single floor unit in a high rise building and a townhouse as 2, 3 or even 4 level attached house. It is true, generally speaking, that they are exactly that. More often than not you hear condo and townhouse being used interchangeably.All this is … (0 comments)
So I was searching through the MLS this morning looking for comps for a listing presentation I am going on tomorrow and came across a listing with the following PUBLIC remarks:
A few weeks ago I was doing some support maintenance on a few blogsites and I happened to notice how clean this blogsite (phoenixmarkettrends.com) is in terms of quality. This includes content, links, and the general theme of the information - it was quite inviting and informative. But quality can also be measured in terms of technical requirements such as broken links, missing images, and missing keywords or alt image attributes. I also took a closer at this client's Blogsite Quality Assurance Report and I was surprised to find they had just a handful of technical defects in spite of the fact that they had more than 200 posts … (15 comments)
Whenever you submit an offer on behalf of a customer or buyer client, have you thought of writing a cover letter to go along with your offer to give the sellers some idea of what your buyer is about, why they want to buy the seller's house, and any other information that might cause the sellers to see the buyers as real people instead of just a couple of names on a piece of paper?
WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) warned taxpayers to beware of several current e-mail and telephone scams that use the IRS name as a lure. The IRS expects such scams to continue through the end of tax return filing season and beyond. The IRS cautioned taxpayers to be on the lookout for scams involving proposed advance payment checks. Although the government has not yet enacted an economic stimulus package in which the IRS would provide advance payments, known informally as rebates to many Americans, a scam which uses the proposed rebates as bait has already cropped up. The goal of the scams is … (1 comments)
Now is the time to address the significant opportunity presented by FSBOs - just read some of the statistics from NAR - by being the agent in the picture you stand a great chance of ultimately representing the seller.Remember that FSBOs made up their mind - they do not want to use a Realtor - so going in with a full frontal attack will not work, it will get them dig in harder.You have to build a relationship - the only way to do this is face to face, and to make them trust and like you. Some of the best … (1 comments)
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