I'll be brief. I wrote a version of this for my company agents to inspire them to get busy here, and I'll share it with my colleagues: Get found. By buyers, sellers, reporters, other agents with referrals. Get followed. Why you want your blog to be engaging (sticky)- Not everyone who finds you is
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02/28/2010
When I was first licensed in 1996, an idea was making the rounds that prior to meeting with prospective clients, an agent should give them a pre-listing package. It was printed material on the agent, their marketing plan, testimonials, and other credibility builders. The rationale was that when y
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02/26/2010
Wow. Westchester County and the surrounding areas are buried with snow. There must be 2 feet of the stuff outside in my yard. What's more, the trees are FULL of the stuff, as if it were glued to them. It is creating a scene like none I can recall. Briarcliff Manor DPW has been by plowing the road
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02/26/2010
Upon occasion, we get calls from people that see an ad or sign but they don't know the address of the house. They can give a color or a landmark, but the ad ID number wasn't written down. What then follows is an excercise in forensics and trianglulation which can take away from more pressing matt
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02/26/2010
MSN Money released an article today on the 2010 real estate market that has me in a fairly prominent position. The article is entitled Homesellers Finally Get Real, and addresses the process by which homeowners have accepted and adjusted to falling prices. The quote is split up, but here is what
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02/25/2010
I'm not one to completely understand Einstein's theory of relativity, but I do observe that, depending on context, some things seem like they occurred a far longer time ago than others. For example: It seems like only yesterday when my daughter was born 6 years ago in early 2004. It was a remarka
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02/24/2010
One of the things I have noticed in the ongoing debates on Dual Agency in Agent Genius, Active Rain and other industry forums is the near universal presumption that if an agent sells a home they have listed to their own buyer that it somehow automatically constitutes dual agency. While I can only
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02/23/2010
Route 6 West approaching the Bear Mountain Bridge has to be the most twisty, serpentine windy road I've ever been on, and to top it off, it is on the edge of a mountain cliff overlooking the Hudson River. Locals have dubbed it the "Goat Trail." The Goat Trail starts northwest of Peekskill, NY and
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02/23/2010
Also known as grieving property taxes or tax certiorari, having your home re assessed is becoming commonplace in Westchester as people realize that their local government will happily raise their taxes when the market is up, but won't break a sweat lowering them when it is in decline. There are t
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02/21/2010
