chuck carstensen: "The Busy Season" - (RE/MAX Results) - 04/03/11 09:58 PM
March for most Realtors and a lot of Buyers in Minnesota marked the start of the busy buying season. Right now I am getting at 50% of the house that are being requested for showing as being mark Active with accepted offer. My feeling is that April will be no different!
Right now is a good time to get your home listed at good price. A good price to me is something that is competitive with the short sales and foreclosure listings but hopefully a little higher if your a regular seller simply based on the fact that your home is … (1 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Live Event - Marketing in Motion - FACEBOOK for BUSINESS in Rogers, MN Feb. 11th - 01/17/11 07:43 AM
Today's video I talk about having "Less Haste and More Speed" with your online/social media marketing. You will have to watch the video to see what I mean! However if you are in the area on Feb. 11th in Rogers, MN from 8:30am - 12noon - Jane Morrison (savvy success business coach) and I will be presenting a LIVE event on using Facebook for business. We will be talking about the strategies you can use and how to get the most bang for your buck with FACEBOOK. For more information and to sign up see the link: Marketing In Motion Live … (2 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Serve People With Enthusiam In 2011 (Video) - 01/04/11 05:46 PM
A follow up blog post to the one I posted yesterday in the Active Rain Members only section about New Year, New Enthusiasm.
Go to my new website that provides business marketing tools and strategies to help you have a Prosperous 2011. Check it out: :Chuck's New Website!
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chuck carstensen: Cambridge, MN City Wide Garage Sale Event This Weekend - 09/17/10 05:27 PM
Another big event in Cambridge is happening right now and this weekend! Its the city wide Cambridge Garage Sale Weekend! If you like to hit garage sales its the place to be in Isanti County! My wife and her parents are checking out garage sales as I post this! (Sept 17 - Weekend) !!! !!! … (3 comments)
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chuck carstensen: What do you want to be when you grow up? - 09/16/10 08:41 PM
I asked my kids (Chase and Chloe) what they want to be when they grow up in this video. I am wondering what you want to be when you grow up? Are you doing what you love? Did you think you would be doing what your doing (Realtor, Loan officer, etc.)? ...Let us know! <> … (4 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Introducing Chloe, Another Carstensen Realtor? - 09/16/10 07:42 AM
Last week I posted a video with my son Chase, so now its Chloe's turn to be introduced! I blog about my kids a lot and I thought it was time for everyone to meet them. … (0 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Everything is SOLD - 09/15/09 02:26 PM
This is CRAZY. Homes are selling in Minnesota! Out of the last 50 homes or so that I have tried to set up a showing for that have not been day 1 on the market...I would say about 45 of them have been sold. Some of these are short sales that are accepting back up offers only and many others are the bank owned homes that just recently accepted offers so often they still are listed ACTIVE but are actually not available.
I would say the tax credit is working. The inventory is clearing out. If your a seller and your … (9 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Minnesota Home Info. 24/7 Right From Your Phone - 08/27/09 02:42 PM
Here is a great new tool for buyers looking to purchase a home in the future.
Its a BUYER 411 service that with the number 763-235-4111 you can call on any MLS listing and get essential MLS information sent right to your phone.
This is a number buyers in the market will want to program to their phone. This program is brought to you by RE/MAX Associates Plus inc. More information at this link. Call or email me if you want your phone numbers activated for this service.
Chuck Carstensen
RE/MAX Associates Plus
612-290-3809
www.thediscoveryteam.com
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chuck carstensen: Have a Little Patience with Short Sales - 07/27/09 05:12 PM
I am not the biggest fan of short sales, but if you have a lot of patience they will normally work out. If you have a little patience you have a good shot a getting your offer through.
A LOT OF PATIENCE = Willing to wait 2-3 months for the bank to accept your offer.
A LITTLE PATIENCE = Willing to wait 1-2 months for the bank to accept your offer.
I bring this up because 2 weeks ago I got an offer on one of my short sale listings. We had just got the BPO done and were waiting the … (2 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Twin Cities Top 200 Agents - 05/13/09 11:28 AM
I know I sell a good amount of houses. I also know there are a lot of REO agents that sell a lot more. I work hard and do the best I can to help my clients with their purchase. Not that rankings are the only thing that matters, but I think its important to know that if you work with me you are working with a TOP agent.
Below is an email I recieved this morning with the agents from the company I am with that ranked in the top 200 in the twin cities. I am the only one … (1 comments)
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chuck carstensen: We Have Hit the Bottom For Now In Minnesota - 05/01/09 01:48 PM
Prices have leveled off for the time being in the Minnesota markets I work in. Multiple offers are coming in on every home that is priced well. Many of these are getting bid $20,000 or more over asking price.
Buyers need to be aware of this and know that the prices they see on the GOOD listings are likely going up. Sure there are still a bunch of over priced listings, but most of my searches are not returning the results I used to see. There are less homes matching the criteria meaning that the prices bottomed out.
I look in … (3 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Facebook Link for Chuck Carstensen - 01/14/09 11:45 PM
In the last 2 plus months I went from around 50 friends (contacts) on Facebook to around 1050 friends. There are several reasons for me to build my Facebook network and I wanted to share a few with you.
1) Most First Time Buyers are online and I want to be where the buyers are.
2) Many of my friends are on Facebook so I want to be where my friends are.
3) Internet Marketing. As someone looking to do more Internet Marketing Facebook is a place to be.
4) For fun! Yes its fine to have some fun!
Find me … (3 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Having a Prosperous 2009 -Appreciate Life Now! - 01/12/09 02:39 PM
Why is it that there is so much in life to appreciate; yet we spend most of our time dwelling on whats not working or what we don't have?
TRY THIS FOR A MOMENT...PRETEND TO BE SATISFIED RIGHT NOW! If you are in WANT of another sale and your GOOD depends on that are you really satisfied? If your worried about the sale that might fall through are you really satisfied right now?
Control others and forcing circumstance isn't going to be satifying if you are not satified with who you are right now! ALL IS WELL WITH YOU, GOD AND … (0 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Having a Prosperous 2009 - January 9th (Prosperous Soul) - 01/08/09 11:05 PM
I really enjoy writing these PROSPERITY blogs. Each time I write I not only help a few people that needed to read this, but I help myself! With that today I want to discuss BEING A PROSPEROUS SOUL!
"Friends I pray that you will prosper in all things and be in good health, just as your soul prospers." (3 John 2)
This is one of my favorite scriptures because it shares that ITS GOD'S WILL that his followers prosper! And by reading it you can easily see that the route to PROSPERING in all areas is by BEING A … (2 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Wake Up Live The Life You Love: Wake Up Moments... Book Update - 12/30/08 10:18 AM
Yesterday I got my advanced copy of the WAKE UP LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE:WAKE UP MOMENTS book that I am a co-author in! I still don't have the exact date of the full release.
What is truly amazing to me about all this is about 1 year ago during the holiday's I was writing out goals and one of them with to be an author and to have a book out in two years. When I wrote that goal I did not know how I was going to accomplish it; I did not do anything to manipulate circumstance to try … (2 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Buyer Reminders on Bank Owned Homes - 12/26/08 06:59 PM
In today's market its very likely that if you are a buyer who is looking for a good value that you are going to end up purchasing a BANK OWNED home. Sometimes buyers get a little worried because the home is SOLD AS IS. All in all I feel its easy and not scary to buy a bank owned home. That comes from experience with numerous sales of BANK OWNED properties while representing the buyer.
Here are a few reminders if your looking to purchase a BANK OWNED home:
1. Normally you will not be able to get the price down … (3 comments)
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chuck carstensen: The Power Of Your Words! - 12/03/08 08:52 AM
REMINDER! Your words are a powerful force. They are seeds to what happens in your life.
What do you say about yourself? What do you say about others?
Are you into talking negatively about yourself or your business? Do you like to gossip about others consistently behind their back?
You can speak positive - faith filled words - starting now.
Here was a string of positives I was saying this morning...
"I am certain I am healthy, wealthy, whole, abundant, joyful, peaceful, loving and complete!"
Make up your on affirmation or use this one or a variation of this one!
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chuck carstensen: Closed Circuit to RE/MAX International - 11/26/08 08:58 PM
First...whats "closed circuit" mean?
About 10 years ago when I was an Intern at KFAN Sports Radio in Minneapolis some of the talk show hosts used to always say this. Its just sort of stuck with me. Its was basically a message that they spoke over the air intended for one individual. I think it was an inside joke... I thought it was funny. Except when they said, "closed circuit to Intern guy where are you with my Frosty. You have been gone for 1/2 hour." I did not know where the closest Wendy's was. What do you do!
On … (0 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Breakthrough Strategies - Knowing - 11/17/08 07:19 PM
Once you KNOW that what you set out to accomplish is a done deal your breakthrough is guaranteed! What do I mean by KNOW?
KNOWING is a trust or certainty that you have in God (or the universe) that what you put forth will come to pass. In the bible God said to Isaiah that THE WORD SHALL NOT RETURN VOID BUT IT WILL PROSPER THAT WHICH IT IS SENT UPON!
My last post I talked about beginning with the end in mind. Once you put that END RESULT out to God it will happen. Most people give up too … (3 comments)
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chuck carstensen: Breakthrough Strategies - Never Give Up - 11/11/08 01:02 PM
Never give up is a must know breakthrough strategy! Most people don't receive the BREAKTHROUGH they desire because they give up too soon. Often they give up on the very doorstep of breakthrough because the appearance of the situation did not seem like they were that close to breakthrough.
In Napoleon Hills book THINK & GROW RICH he states, "More then five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight … (3 comments)
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