We had another great day for showing in central Iowa. Sky was sunny and just a little breezy with a high in the upper 70's. You couldn't ask for better weather! I don't know how other agents did, but we had eight groups come through with about another 4 drivebys. That's my second best showing day yet! The record stands at 12 with a few drivebys. How'd everybody else do?
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Obviously, I'm not an expert on the Detroit home market. I can only go off of what the national media is telling me, which can be very skewed. But it looks like there's foreclosure heaven in Detroit. Houses listed at $525,000 now auctioned off at $130,000. Here's the full story from Yahoo! news.
It makes me think, sometimes we get to feeling like things are terrible and our particular market is bad. The grass is looking greener on the other side. What you have to remember is that yes, the grass is always greener on the other side, but there's always someone else who's thinking that your grass is greener than theirs.
Well, can you say it was a good showing day with only 4 groups gone through? I think you can say yes. Now I'm about to attend a weekly class in about an hour in which the instructor asks every week, "How'd your opens go this week?" So I'll be able to find out a little more closely if it really was a good showing.
Either way, I have to be happy about the nice weather that's here. The only person I think that might be happier than me is my wife. It is hard for a Georgia Peach to get used to an Iowa winter. Let's take a look at the house and you tell me if you would have stopped by.
Beautiful 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, and an unfinished basement; sitting on a one-acre lot. This home is located in the SE Polk school district and is just minutes from the Hwy 5 by-pass. This home has a large kitchen; including oven, refrigerator, dishwasher, and garbage disposal, with an eat in dining room. The large living room features a vaulted ceiling, build in surround sound speaker system, and a cozy fireplace. There is also a second family room or formal dining room located on the main floor with a bay window. You will also enjoy the convenience of the central vacuum system. You are sure to love the open foyer as you move to the upstairs . You find each room has excellent lighting, spacious closets and a great layout all together. This house features a three car attached garage with a finished floor and automatic garage door openers. You are sure to fall in love with this house when you see it! You will love seeing the stars at night. A must see - Top Condition!!!
For the first time this year we had a good day for showing. The weather was warm and the sky was sunny. Unfortunately, I think that worked against me today. Don't get me wrong, I saw all kinds of people today during my open house. I saw couples walking, women walking their dogs, even entire families riding on bikes. I even made contact with some of them, contact by a wave that is. That seemed to be the only contact I could make today. I only had 2 visits to my open house in Urbandale. Oh well, it's supposed to stay this way for most of the week. Maybe that will be enough time for us to get adjusted to the great new weather and get us Iowans back to the business at hand. Whew, what a change from the blizzard of 2 weeks ago. I guess it is like they say here in Iowa, "If you don't like the weather, just wait, it'll change."
I have a Broker's Open (Agent Tour, if you're in Iowa) this Tuesday, March 6th. It's for that GREAT house in Pleasant Hill. 2325 SE 68th. Take Hwy 5 to Vandalia Road and go east to 68th street, then head north on 68th street. There will be signs. Here's the official description.
"Beautiful 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, and an unfinished basement; sitting on a one-acre lot. This home is located in the SE Polk school district and is just minutes from the Hwy 5 by-pass. This home has a large kitchen; including oven, refrigerator, dishwasher, and garbage disposal, with an eat in dining room. The large living room features a vaulted ceiling, build in surround sound speaker system, and a cozy fireplace. There is also a second family room or formal dining room located on the main floor with a bay window. You will also enjoy the convenience of the central vacuum system. You are sure to love the open foyer as you move to the upstairs . You find each room has excellent lighting, spacious closets and a great layout all together. This house features a three car attached garage with a finished floor and automatic garage door openers. You are sure to fall in love with this house when you see it! You will love seeing the stars at night. A must see - Top Condition!!!"
If you would like even more info, go to www.68th.YourDesMoines.com . Stop by if you want to see a great house!
So I have this new website that is working very well. I have alot of pages to fill. I was looking at the possibility adding a "Realtor Co-op" page. A place where I can link with other Realtors around the country to maybe get some referrals, but mainly to give both websites a little bit better ranking in Google. I'm looking at just putting cooperative links in each other's sites, also getting a better referral system.
I was wondering about anyone's thoughts on the matter. Have you tried it and it's worked well, or is it something where your link is on the other site for a few months and then disappears. Any thoughts anyone?
So I've been doing a little internet advertising on Craigslist.org. I haven't been able to measure much statistics on how successful it has been. Obviously, it's not like it takes alot of time to put info in and submit it. I would justl like to know that it's working. Has anyone else had any success with Craigslist? Just curious. I'm the type that doesn't like to spend time on things that aren't working.
Adam Forney
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