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A CRAZY WAY TO APPROACH HOME SALES - 06/26/08 06:35 AM
One part of Dallas where the more expensive homes are located, has developed the most arrogant approach to sales. I wonder where these people's heads are.
The MLS listing instructions more frequently than not read like this: Listing agent must accompany all showings. Appointments must be made 24 hours in advance. Owner's baby naps between 2 and 4 so no showings can be scheduled then. Please do not request showings on weekends or before 11 AM or after 4 PM.
I see these listings expire and renew over and over for months. No one seems willing to grasp that it could … (11 comments)
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GALEN JETER ORCHESTRA PLAYS STAN KENTON -- SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH IN DALLAS - 06/23/08 11:59 AM
THE GALEN JETER JAZZ ORCHESTRA
As the sun was going down Sunday, Patty and I met our friends (our minister and his wife) Clif and Gig Gardner and (famed radio man) Bud Buschardt at the Village Country Club on Southwestern near Skillman, for the barbeque buffet and three hours of music by the famous twenty piece Galen Jeter Orchestra.
Galen is a retired biology teacher from the Garland ISD, but he's had one big jazz orchestra or another for thirty-five years. And while he won't tell you this I will: He was with the famed Woody Herman Band along the way.
And he … (3 comments)
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YOU CAN GO HOME TO THE NEXT HOT AREA OF DALLAS! - 06/23/08 11:14 AM
2122 LEANDER DRIVE
$285,000
If you know me, you know my great passion for pianos. Maybe it's to me what hunting ducks is to my friend, Butch Kelso.
Nevertheless, I have performed for more than forty years, and I have tuned pianos in spare moments for what, maybe twenty of those years? Of course all the while devoting my full business time to real estate brokerage.
Well, since we've lived in Dallas until recently I hadn't had much reason to drive to Oak Cliff and explore. But about a month ago, an attorney friend called and asked me to tune … (6 comments)
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The Window Man and His Cold Calling Smile and Wizardry - 06/18/08 01:30 PM
Lake Highlands in Dallas is really a wonderful place to live.
Because I have spent the majority of my life living in large Victorian homes, moving into a neighborhood that has houses that are primarily 25 to 30 years old is a new experience for me. But I'm growing to like it very much. Pretty much the late beginning of an Ozzie and Harriet life-style.
The other day the doorbell rang. I was here and getting ready to leave to meet a client at the title company. I went to the door, and there stood a small fellow -- a grown-up … (8 comments)
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WHEN CAN I SELL WITHOUT OWING MY AGENT A COMMISSION? - 06/18/08 09:50 AM
For as long as I've been in the real estate bidniz, and that's now going on 44 years, I've had people ask me this question:
"How long after my listing contract expires must I wait before I am no longer contractually obligated to pay the agent for a sale to one of his clients that he brought by."
And I note that it is one of the most frequently asked questions at the Active Rain consumer Question and Answer site.
You see, for some reason, a lot of potential buyers like to go around their agent. They call the property owner without the … (22 comments)
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FOLLOWING YOUR REALTOR'S LEAD -- THE MAP TO SUCCESS - 06/14/08 10:15 AM
There are some components of a real estate transaction that separate it from so many of the others:
A listing agent who knows what he's doing A seller who rabidly does exactly what his listing broker instructs A buyer's agent who knows what he's doing A buyer who rabidly does exactly what his buyer's agent instructs Yesterday, Dallas agent, 20-year Keller-Williams veteran Cindy Huitt and I completed our representation of our respective clients in what was an extremely complicated deal from beginning to end. Without going into the details, we sold and closed my listing to her clients for full price. … (5 comments)
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THE IDEKER TWINS -- LOOKING FOR SUMMER JOBS IN LAKE HIGHLANDS - 06/11/08 09:46 PM
J.P. and Hank Ideker are twins, and live in our neighborhood, in fact at the top of Rustleleaf Drive just off of Robin Hill. They are sophomores at Jesuit College Preparatory School. For those of you who aren't familiar with Jesuit, it's a great pedigree.
Today I was puttering around a bit before I went to a listing appointment, and I saw one of the boys and his dog walking up our front walkway. He had a hand full of paper, so I figured he and his dog-pal were going to leave one of them at our door.
Sure enough when I … (4 comments)
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BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS - 14 POWERHOUSE PROFESSIONALS TALK - 06/11/08 05:33 PM
Real estate training great, Petey Parker, has joined Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Mark Leader, Joy Ohayia, Jim Gottfurcht, Wally Hauck and a handful of others to total 14.
The book, Blueprint for Success is a series of pointed interviews regarding what it takes to succeed in business in this new century.
Petey sent me a copy last week and I've just finished reading it. You'll want to, too.
Petey still has the poise of the airline hostess she was when she first entered the business world, but the business experiences that followed found her as a sought after trainer for … (5 comments)
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YAHWEH AND THE REAL ESTATE AGENT - 06/07/08 10:28 PM
One of the major paradoxes of real estate brokerage is rarely, if ever, mentioned. Yet, it seems to haunt every agent and every real estate company. It especially bonds and hangs onto those who work the hardest; those who are the most creative in marketing themselves.
You see what most of us do is to take the conventional marketing wisdom - sending out cards and newsletters, cold calling neighborhoods, even putting expensive ads in magazines - and tinker with it. A splash of door hangers here, a mailing out of football schedules there, becoming very active in Rotary and the … (5 comments)
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The Add a New Ride Rule - The Rule that Keeps Many Businesses from Going Broke - 06/06/08 04:56 AM
For a rather brief period twenty years ago, I was a major investor in a marine park similar to the famous Sea Worlds. Our park was about to celebrate its twenty-fifth year in business when we purchased it from the original owners.
Since the marine park came with about thirty acres that were undeveloped, we had envisioned adding as many as four hotels plus some other entertainment attractions.
However, we quickly discovered something we hadn't expected and from that we learned a valuable business lesson. Our marine park was self-liquidating, and we hadn't realized it when we bought it.
While revenues … (17 comments)
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STUDY SHOWS WHAT LEADS TO HIGHER CLOSING COSTS - 06/02/08 06:11 AM
Recently I wrote an Actice Rain blog in which I pointed out that the closing costs that end up on the HUD-1 Statement often times are over charges that go unnoticed. Frequently they are for excessive attorneys fees, excessive title escrow fees, plus the miscellaneous fees for messengers, copies, notary and the like that nickel and dime the client to death.
I went on to recommend that Realtors study those practices from title company to title company, and negotiate them either to an acceptable level, or move the file to a title company whose fees are more reasonable. I think we … (14 comments)
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BILL CHERRY
William S. Cherry & No Co., Wealth Coach
Dallas,
TX
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