real estate agent: My first 100 Days in Real Estate: Confessions of a Newbie
- 01/07/15 05:45 AM
What an adventure this first 100 days has been! I would like to introduce myself. I am Karin Bearnarth, and I am new to Real Estate. It was only two years ago when I worked solely as a wedding planner in Breckenridge, CO. Working with new brides and grooms gave me great satisfaction. However, I always felt a sense of loss when the families that I had been working with for a year or more, suddenly were out of my life and onto their “happily ever after”.
Now, to my delight, going into real estate has proven to be the perfect vehicle … (0 comments)
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real estate agent: The Right Real Estate Agent By Marc Bayes
- 06/04/14 01:33 AM
Choosing the right real estate agent can be pretty difficult if you think about it. Typically speaking not much thought is put into picking the agent you choose to work with. In fact if effort is put forth in choosing the right real estate agent to sell your home, even less effort is put forth in choosing the agent to help you find your new home.
Right now in the major cities of Colorado there are 6,128 homes for sale. On average a person knows at least 3 real estate agents. Now, there are 16,000 real estate agents in Colorado. That means … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: 10 Things You’ll Never Hear Me Say As A Real Estate Agent By Dan Polimino
- 06/03/14 07:39 AM
Rick Reilly, the columnist from Sports Illustrated, ESPN and The Denver Post, just came out with a new book called, “Tiger Meet My Sister… and other things I shouldn’t have said!” It’s a compilation of his best columns over the last five years. If you have ever read his stuff, you know how witty Rick can be. It got me thinking of the title of this column, “10 Things You’ll Never Hear Me Say As A Real Estate Agent.”
10) Yes, you can clean the carpets and move in before closing!
9) No, you don’t need earnest money or … (3 comments)
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real estate agent: How Big Is April Through July? By Dan Polimino
- 06/03/14 07:23 AM
You have heard real estate agents say the prime selling season in Colorado is April 1st through July 31st? Well, it’s true; but just how big are those four months when it comes to selling a home in Colorado?
Let’s take a look at last year as an example. It was a record year of 54,000 plus single-family homes and condos that got sold. Of that number, 47% were sold between April 1st and July 31st. That means almost half of all homes and condos that sell do so in those four months.
In case you have not gotten your home on the market yet, you still … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: The Quiet Listing By Dan Polimino
- 03/25/14 05:23 AM
If you have been around the real estate game for any period of time, you must have heard of the term “quiet listing” or “pocket listing.” This means that a realtor has a client who would like to sell their home, but does not want to put it on the market. Here is how it works:
A seller calls their agent and says, “If you know of anyone who might be looking in this neighborhood, could you tell them about our house?” The agent then usually asks a series of questions, not the least of which is, “Do you want to put the house on the market?” … (23 comments)
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real estate agent: Do You Know A Good Contractor? By Dan Polimino.
- 12/09/13 08:58 PM
As a real estate agent, I must get that question three times a week. And why wouldn’t I? After all, people are buying homes and chances are they’ll need repair work or construction. Who better to ask than a real estate agent, right? Surely, the agent would know a good contractor. The answer is yes and no. Believe it or not, it’s getting harder and harder to find a good contractor. I think that like most consumers, I am looking for a contractor that “does what they say, say what they mean, meet deadlines, and do good quality work.” One would think that given the … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: Cutting Real Estate Agent’s Commission may Backfire for Home Sellers
- 10/23/13 10:58 PM
Anyone who has ever sold their house with a great real estate agent knows that a solid professional is worth their weight in gold. In addition, you can also ask anyone who chose to go with a poor/discount broker or no agent at all and you will get plenty of horror stories.
I read an interesting article on DenverPost.com written by Paul Owers of the Sun Sentinel, titled Cutting the take of real estate agents may backfire for home sellers.Although it talks specifically about the Florida market, in my experience, I couldn’t agree more about what happens right here in Denver. … (0 comments)
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real estate agent: Assist to Sell. By Marc Bayes.
- 08/13/13 11:11 PM
What’s the question on everyone’s lips? How’s the market. So how is the market? It’s up, it’s fast, it’s strong, and it’s a seller’s market. Seller’s market means low inventory higher prices and much more competitive offers. In fact sellers are getting asking price and higher on their homes. The more this information travels the more people will stop thinking about selling their homes and start to actually sell them.
Next comes a pit fall that just about every seller has had to deal with: commissions. If you wish to sell your home with someone that will represent your needs, market … (0 comments)
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real estate agent: Who Wins? The Husband or The Wife? By Dan Polimino.
- 07/29/13 08:50 PM
Over the last few years, I have been out showing homes to couples with very different priorities. The husband is all about the deal. He could live in a variety of homes as long as they all are a good deal. Sure, his wife would like a good deal, but more than anything else, she wants a home. Something she has dreamed of, envisioned her family in, and could see herself being happy in for years to come. The problem with this scenario is that they are looking to buy with very different priorities. There are plenty of instances where people … (20 comments)
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real estate agent: How To Select A Real Estate Agent. By Dan Polimino.
- 07/15/13 10:08 PM
I am sure that there are a lot of ways to select a real estate agent. For example, some people like to hire an agent that has sold a lot of properties in that particular neighborhood; others like to hire friends, while others look for referrals of a good agent to hire.
Whatever your means for deciding which real estate agent is right for you, I think that most people go through a selection process, and I think the process goes something like this:
1) Like Them. Most people want to feel comfortable with the person they are hiring, and that usually … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: Why Inspection is So Important. By Marc Bayes.
- 07/09/13 07:51 PM
When buying a house you have an option for an inspection. An inspection is not required by the lenders to lend on a property but it’s also a process that shouldn’t be overlooked. The truth is the inspection is probably the most important aspect to home buying. I want to share with you a few tips to the inspection process because it is so important.
Make sure you get an inspection! I can’t tell you how many people want to purchase a house but don’t want to pay for the inspection. An inspector is a doctor for a home. He goes … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: What’s Your Agent Doing for You? By Marc Bayes.
- 06/25/13 09:45 PM
If someone were to ask you to name three people in any give profession the average person can do that. Real estate agents are no different. Everyone knows someone that sells real estate. Now that the market is beginning to come back, prices are on the rise, and people are looking to sell you’ll being to see more and more people creeping up saying they sell real estate. Not every agent is made equal so here are a few things to look for in a rock star real estate agent.
Is your agent taking you to see properties the same day … (0 comments)
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real estate agent: A New Breed of Buyers. By Dan Polimino.
- 06/24/13 11:31 PM
Attention sellers, builders, lenders and oh, yes, real estate agents. Did you know that there is a new breed of buyers out there wanting to purchase a home? We have never seen these people before in the real estate market, because they never really existed until four or five years ago. This country has never seen a real estate crash like we had over the last four or five years, and that single event created a new demographic that did not previously exist. Here is their profile:
These people may have had good jobs, made good money, and had good credit … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: Who’s Your Lender? By Marc Bayes.
- 06/11/13 09:16 PM
Just about everyone who’s buying a home today needs a loan to purchase. There are a ton of different types of loans a buyer can choose from when looking to purchase their new home. The problem is lenders got a pretty bad rap after the housing crash and buyers don’t trust their lenders as much as their real estate agent. Let’s take a moment to discuss what you should be looking for in a lender and what they should be doing for you.
The first thing to understand is how the process of lending you money to purchase a home works. … (2 comments)
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real estate agent: Home Search Applications. By Marc Bayes.
- 06/05/13 07:43 PM
If you’re considering purchasing a new home then you and I both know you’ve been on Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, and probably one or two Realtor’s webpages using their IDX search to find your new home. There are quite a few apps that exist and I wanted to take a moment to discuss the pros and cons of each since you and I both know you’ll be using them to start your search.
Zillow is probably the number one most used app for finding a new home. Why do people love Zillow? It not only shows you what’s for sale but it … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: I Can't Find a Home. By Dan Polimino.
- 06/03/13 10:12 PM
I never thought that I would hear the words "I can't find a home" from a buyer, but five years after the nationwide real estate crash, this seems to be a reoccurring theme. In April and May, there were only about 5,000 single-family homes on the market in the entire Denver MLS. That is historically low and shockingly sparse for a city of three million plus people. As the saying goes, "it is what it is," so how do we handle it going forward?
If you are buyer in a seller’s market, you need to find a top-notch agent. Listen… when … (1 comments)
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real estate agent: How Much Stock Can You Put Into Zillow? By Marc Bayes.
- 05/29/13 07:26 PM
As my teams lead buyer’s agent I do nothing but show homes to buyers. I love it. I love seeing what the trends in homes are, stepping into someone else’s life for just a moment, helping people find their dream home. These same buyers are doing what everyone does when looking for a home they’re looking online. The number one site that buyers use for looking at new homes online is Zillow.
While I am all for buyers taking the bull by the horns and looking for new homes online it’s important to understand a few things about Zillow that differs … (2 comments)
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real estate agent: What We Have Learned. By Dan Polimino and Gary Lohrman.
- 05/20/13 08:15 PM
By now, many of our real estate colleagues have seen the previous letter I wrote this month about our culture here at KW Luxury. Thank you for all of the kind emails, letters, and phone calls. We are excited that some of you will be joining our team. As we said in the first letter, we are convinced that we have something special going on here and we want you to be a part of it.
Today, we want to address the two biggest challenges that every real estate agent faces which are probably the greatest threats to their long-term well … (0 comments)
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real estate agent: I Am Thinking About Getting Into Real Estate. By Dan Polimino.
- 01/14/13 04:04 PM
This week’s column is dedicated to all those working professionals who are thinking about making a job change into real estate. For years, I have heard people say things like, “anyone can sell real estate,” or “if you can fog a mirror, you can be a real estate agent,” or “all an agent really does is drive a fancy car and collect commissions.” I sometimes wonder if those same people ever heard the saying, “Don’t judge someone else until you have walked one day in their shoes.” I, too, was guilty of thinking that anyone could get into the real estate … (2 comments)
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real estate agent: Maybe You Should Consider A New Build? By Dan Polimino.
- 12/03/12 04:55 PM
Ok, so you’ve been out looking at homes for a few months and you still can’t find anything you want to buy. It’s hard to believe that we are having this discussion today after the last four years of record high inventory. Since a greater selection of choice homes is not likely to hit the market soon, maybe it’s time to consider building. Before you do, there are some things you need to know.
Not every homebuilder is created equal. In the construction business, it really is “You get what you pay for!” Buyers beware: do you home work on … (4 comments)
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What an adventure this first 100 days has been! I would like to introduce myself. I am Karin Bearnarth, and I am new to Real Estate. It was only two years ago when I worked solely as a wedding planner in Breckenridge, CO. Working with new brides and grooms gave me great satisfaction. However, I always felt a sense of loss when the families that I had been working with for a year or more, suddenly were out of my life and onto their “happily ever after”.
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