Rocky Mountain Realty Company, Colorado Springs

        From Dream To: NIGHTMARE...IN 1 YEAR OR LESS!                                                                        Everyone knows that many markets have been affected by the recent foreclosure statistics. Our local papers here in lovely Colorado Springs, CO. have said that we are "the f...

Time for a light hearted post! Who is your favorite Agent/Broker OUTSIDE your own company and why?I'll go first! My favorite outside my own company Broker is John McGovern of Avalon Properties. He was my ex-Managing Broker at All West Realtors in Colorado Springs. Although the company was sold to...

Up until now, I have thought of the Federal Fair Housing Laws as sort of "common sense". Familial Status is easy to see when there is maybe a married couple, or a single person, or a family with or without children, or a gay couple, or a brother and sister living with an aunt...the possibilities ...

Recently, in all of my interviewing efforts, I have found that the process of split negotiation has changed a lot from the time I graduated real estate school. I found a place that I wanted to work, asked how much they would give me...it seemed fair, so I signed on.I stayed there until I was conf...

One of the things we strive  to do in our small Colorado Springs brokerage is to provide excellent service and maintain life long relationships with our clients. My mother, (who is one of the wisest women I have had the privilege to know), made an observation years ago. I didn't really take it se...

  Today I had a short chat with one of my Jr. Agents. He's a great guy with a bright future ahead of him and a real talent for obtaining listings. That's how I see him anyway.How he sees himself, however, is rather like the fictional stuffed donkey from Winnie The Pooh, "Eeyore". Eeyore never see...

Every year,( a couple of months before my birthday), I seem to reflect on my life and think of how far we've come in such a short time...When I was a kid, (not so long ago), there was no remote for the t.v., (well there was, but I WAS IT).There was no cable, no video games, no pay-per-view and th...

I just wanted to say thanks, Activerain! I got a great contact that I sold a property to yesterday. He saw my post and sent me and em. Next day we were looking at properties and yesterday we wrote one.The other one happened last month. My husband is into this high tech marketing, (I guess I am no...

I'm kind of new to AR and I love it! I find it funny to see that there's no seeming rhyme or reason to the subject that could take on a life of it's own. I'd like to know what your favorite or most memorable post has been and why it "stuck with you!"

Many of the people I work with are looking for great investment properties. The have heard of fixing and flipping and think, after watching a half hour show where a crew of no charge workers fix up an entire house for less than 2,000.00), that I should be able to find them a STEAL of a deal. You ...