Jim Minkey's (jminkey) Blog

It occured to me while I was showing property over the weekend that maybe the best thing about this current market is the fact that buyers don't have to compromise nearly as much as they used to. Fortunately, the old and wise rules about real estate investment have returned...and that's a good t...

My wife Lesley's aunt Barbara lives in a liitle town about 30 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee called Munford. It's sort of a bedroom community, kind of cute and quaint but kind of lacking when it comes to the truly important things in life that we're used to...like soy latte's and Pomegranate ...

Here's a true confession...when I got into the business in 1990 I really didn't know diddly. I took a correspondence course, because we lived in Denver at the time, and then took the state test to get my license. The state test was full of useless information...defining "avulsion" and "accretion...

I suspect there isn't another area of Real Estate life that get's discussed more than the basic weekend Open House does. I'll bet buyers and sellers would be surprised by that somewhat. Every Monday morning Real Estate offices everywhere have meetings where activity at Open Houses is always disc...

I got to thinking the other day about the bigger picture of buying a home, that is presenting an offer. The truth is that the toy pictured above is quite possibly the most common way that Real Estate agents present their client's offers. The offer is faxed to the listing agent who then presents i...