Jan O'Brien: Real Estate Business Coach, Agent Team Building & Training

Are you focusing on what you want or do you find yourself stuck in the negative trap and putting energy on what you don't have?  The following information is adapted from Brian Tracy's abundant material on the subject of productivity and performance.  I recently revisited and read these Brian Tr...

Two of the most closely watched barometers of U.S. home prices are the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight home-price index and the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index.  Read more about these indices at the Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics Blog: Ofheo vs. Case-Shiller: A Primer. T...

NAR recently issued this Call To Action - I urge you to Take Action Now to support this plan.  We need ALL members to support NAR's efforts to have the NAR Four-Point Housing Stimulus Plan included in any future stimulus bill. As REALTORS®, we know that at its core, the current economic crisis is...

Technorati has posted the State of the Blogosphere 2008 in a 5 part series packed with trends, stats and details about the who, what, why and how of blogging.  This year, as discussed by CEO Richard Jalichandra at the recent Blogworld & New Media Expo, Technorati conducted a random survey of the ...

REBlogworld was a well-organized and successful event.  I enjoyed participating, networking and the learning and sharing of ideas.  Kudos to Todd Carpenter and Jason Berman for all their hard work and to all the speakers and attendees for being on the leading edge of the RE.net. Here's a recap o...

As a Broker/Manager of a large real estate office(291 licensees as of July 2008) in a city (Las Vegas) that is dealing with 70%+ of monthly closed transactions being short sales and REOs, I've written this post with the intention of educating and spreading the word to as many people as possible t...

What is a short sale? Simply put, a short sale is selling a property for a less than what is owed to the underlying mortgage holder(s).  The final sales price is essentially what the buyer is willing to pay for the property with the mortgage company/bank having the final approval of the associat...

Are you a real estate agent showing and writing offers on short sales?  Have you considered “qualifying” the listing before showing it to your buyer? I submit to you that asking the listing agent the following questions and allowing your buyer to make an educated and informed decision about subm...

Blogging from ReBarCamp in San Francisco... 120+ participants, lots of energy, networking, great conversations on a variety of topics (from Foreclosures 2.0 to everything blogging and social networks).  An informative and thought-provoking session entitled: "What are the 5 Social Networks Every ...

I am excited and honored to be a part of the RE Blogworld Conference on Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.  I will be joining Pat Kitano of TransparentRE and Kevin Boer of 3Oceans Real Estate as moderators for this full-day conference kicking off the Blogworld & New M...