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2012
A spoof of one of my favorite movies, The Princess Bride by Mike Cooper. "Hello! My name is agent Inigo Montoya, you cheated my father! Prepare to cry." If my life and business were made into a movie, it would have to be The Princess Bride. Not only is it one of my favorite movies, but it reflec...
04/30/2012
If you work primarily with buyers, you’ve probably used historically low interest rates as one of the carrots to dangle in front of potential clients. Now there’s even more positive food for thought to offer in the form of a recent National Association of Realtors report showing housing affordab...
04/30/2012
Want fries with that? That question isn’t in many real estate agent handbooks, but when things got especially tough for Josh Herbel he started serving food at a restaurant to make ends meet. Now after thinking about quitting his day job Herbel can’t wait to exit his night job because of a market ...
04/27/2012
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If you’re a real estate agent there’s a good chance you didn’t major in English or world literature in college. And that’s OK because the type of writing you need to do to get noticed doesn’t require grand prose or a never-ending supply of flowery adjectives. When it comes to blogging, you basic...
04/25/2012
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Read more on Market Conditions Any job involving sales will undoubtedly involve wheeling and dealing along the line. But the negotiation process for real estate agents the past few years has been elevated dramatically because of the up-and-down state of the market, interest rates and economy in g...
04/23/2012
Ah, spring is in the air. Time for a young Realtor’s fancy to turn to … improving market conditions! Is it happening in your city? Hopefully it is, because things apparently are booming and blooming in a number of areas, according to a HouseHunt agent survey. Whether the uptick in numbers and at...
04/20/2012
How are you educating your sellers? Are your sellers wanting to list at unrealistic prices due to online resources? No matter what kind of market we’re in – and signs are pointing to a shift away from one heavily favoring buyers – it’s important to set the right price from the outset. As a real e...
04/18/2012
Real estate owned (REO) properties could make banks and lenders landlords under a rental plan given the go-ahead by the Federal Reserve. The idea is to help some of the institutions it supervises clear foreclosed properties from their books. The plan, which would take place “at the earliest prac...
04/16/2012
Before the Internet took over our lives and marketing, Realtors actually had to get out in the world, interact and see what the other guys were doing to drum up business. Those who did so discovered that the most successful agents were the ones with whom clients and prospects were most familiar. ...
04/13/2012
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The good news for real estate agents is that market prices in some areas are starting to increase a smidge; the bad news is that gas prices beat houses to the punch. And then some. Skyrocketing prices at the pump are taking a toll on people who drive a lot, and that definitely includes agents wh...
04/11/2012
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