real estate: When all else fails.....ask for help!!! - 12/17/08 10:17 AM
I have been a broker for 16 years and in the business for 19 and I truly am floundering for the first time. I read a couple of recent articles from Realtors who have suggested that their clients rent their house while seeking employment elsewhere. Sounds like a … (0 comments)
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real estate: When I say I am Christian...... - 12/05/08 11:41 AM
One of my young friends on Face book sent this Poem to me and I believe it deserves re-posting. It is my prayer that we could keep this spirit throughout the year and remember what is really important in life. I can promise you that after this last year one … (4 comments)
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real estate: Getting paid for what you know - 10/30/08 10:56 AM
I have seen 13 straight downward quarters in my real estate market. Almost 1/3 of my fellow Realtors have fled the business, and the banks are getting a little "tight" with the money they have. It would be an big understatement to say it is time to get "CREATIVE" … (2 comments)
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real estate: and the world continues to turn....... - 10/18/08 06:34 PM
Just a couple of days shy of 4 months since the last time I have posted. Lord it has been a long painful year. My business is having its worst year since my rookie year (1991) I lost my Mom In February and I just buried my younger brother … (2 comments)
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real estate: $19,000,000 in sales first quarter of 2008!!!! - 04/30/08 11:25 AM
Sounds awesome if you are an individual, pretty darn good if you work in a "team" environment, not bad for most offices. But the 19,000,000 I am referring to is the total amount of sales for OUR ENTIRE REALTOR ASSOCIATION in Battle Creek Michigan. We had approx 250 agents over … (9 comments)
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real estate: To Be Me Is To Be Free (no more franchise!) - 03/03/08 08:31 PM
Lets see in the last month - Mom died, my book is getting published, I've sold exactly 1 home so far in 2008, I've closed one real estate business in the last two weeks and opened another, and I showed homes for the first time in ages this past weekend … (3 comments)
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real estate: Ten Truths Realtors Care not to Share - 02/10/08 05:39 PM
"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."
Thomas Carlyle
I hope the title of this blog got your attention because it is the name of my new book ( I wrote it last summer because business was so slow, and I had to do something) - … (4 comments)
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real estate: Are you willing to do what is required to make ends meet? - 01/21/08 07:58 PM
To my friends, associates, and fellow Realtors - I just wanted to apologize for being "off the Rain" for so long. I had already adjusted my budget drastically for 2008 (tightening the belt) knowing 2008 was not going to be pretty in Michigan, but even so, early into January, it … (11 comments)
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real estate: Why Set Fee Commissions and why now! - 12/26/07 10:22 AM
No catchy pictures or blinking lights in this one just making a point and saying "Hi"
I was talking with a fellow Realtor who has a "discount real estate firm" in another state over the holiday weekend and I suggested to him that we start a "set fee" or … (6 comments)
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real estate: “You Like me You Really like me”........Meme - 12/09/07 07:29 PM
Unlike most of you who were probably surprised to be Meme'd - I was not. I read Jeff's blog about Meme's and he said he was looking for volunteers - so I did just that. Having been on AR for just over a month, I have loved the acquaintances I … (7 comments)
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real estate: Experience the season, Calhoun County Michigan - 12/09/07 04:01 PM
http://www.calhouncountymi.org/default4.htm
Above is the link to our county website. One of the things that I had wanted to accomplish by blogging is to raise the awareness of our great county and help highlight all the advantages there are in living in our area. Our official county site is well done and … (0 comments)
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real estate: 51st out of 50 for devalued homes in the last year - 12/05/07 05:43 PM
This was the lead story on the local 11:00 o'clock news last night in Battle Creek Michigan. However local Realtors have become accustomed to this type of lead story - were getting to the point where we are fairly numb to it. The last 2 years have been shall we say....challenging … (0 comments)
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real estate: Help - what is my next step? - 12/04/07 12:14 PM
I have a client who has had trouble selling her home (surprise, surprise) An investor approached me and started asking me questions about the property. He told me upfront that he buys homes on short sales and was interested in this particular property , he had me do a … (8 comments)
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real estate: The New "Real World" - 11/14/07 12:21 PM
I have just finished creating accounts on "Facebook" and "My Space" and it was only last week that I started my Active Rain account. I can feel the lines blurring between the concrete bricks and sticks reality that I have always worked in, and the glare of my computer screen … (2 comments)
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real estate: To putting Listing's on my Blog or Not? - 11/12/07 02:31 PM
I personally carry about 70 listings and in a down market I could see the value of putting out to my active rain friends at least a few of those listings that are either waterfront or maybe low end, or drastically reduced, that would hold some interest to possible investors … (14 comments)
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real estate: "We can't give it if you don't ask" part II - 11/10/07 10:00 AM
Ron Henderson, A Realtor in Kansas City MO, wrote about home owners being able to lower their monthly house payments simply by asking their lenders to work with them. This stimulated a thought that I believe is worth sharinig that many Realtors might not know (especially the newer ones) so this … (4 comments)
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real estate: Battle Creek - A Great Place to Live! - 11/09/07 03:48 PM
My wife and I moved to this community 20 years ago, and we fell so much in love with what Battle Creek had to offer that when it was time for us to move on we decided NO! I quit my game plan of climbing the corporate ladder, I earned … (0 comments)
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real estate: Battle Creek market will change when the casino construction starts - 11/09/07 01:50 PM
For approximately 5 years we have patiently waited for the construction of the new casino that will be off I-94 at the eleven mile exit just east of town. The real estate market has been down for the last three years in the Battle Creek market but the end of … (1 comments)
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real estate: Buyer’s: How not to lose your advantage in this” Buyer’s Market” - 11/09/07 12:41 PM
Anyone who hasn't been in a coma or visiting relatives out of state (for the last 3 years) knows that we have a surplus of homes on the market, a sluggish economy in Southwest Michigan and many frantic sellers who have reduced the price of their homes several times in … (0 comments)
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real estate: Real Estate Is a Local Phenomenon - 11/08/07 09:09 PM
With all the news (most of it being bad) concerning the slow down in the housing market and all the additional troubles with sub-prime loans in the mortgage arena I would just like to remind people that Real Estate is very much a local phenomenon. What is going on in … (1 comments)
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