$160,000  
Address: 2031 Copperwood Park Ln
Property Type: Single Family Homes 
Status: ACTIVE ON MARKET 
Bedrooms: 3 Bedrooms
Baths: 2 Full & 0 Half Bath(s) 
Garage: 2 CAR Detached
Stories: 1 STORY 
Style: Traditional
Year Built: 1999/Appraisal District
Build Sqft: 2,202 / Appraisal District 
Lotsize: 8,166 / Appraisal District
Subdivision:: Imperial Oaks Park 01
Mrkt Area: The Woodlands, Spring
City: Spring
Zip Code: 77386-2746
Key Map® : PAGE 252R
MLS#: 8979083 

Walking distance to community center with park, main pool, splash pool and basketball courts. Super clean and maintained lightly lived in one owner home. Relaxing Spa in backyard with a covered back porch. On a CUL-DE-SAC street in the back of this section for a quiet street. Detached garage with long drive way for multiple cars. 2.5 car garage having extra storage area. Beautifully landscaped front and back yard. Lot back to a reserve.
 

 

Ok, I am not one to endorse paying for leads. Frankly because paying for a lead is no different than marketing. Though, networking/referrals are always the best way to get leads, with marketing your homes or yourself you may develop some brand recognition but flat out paying for leads do not do this.

All leads are in generally weak, but the bottom line you are increasing the number of people you have not meet or would not have called you because they were caught in some other marketing fly paper.  So in the case anyone that fills out a form and about their home and wants the free information is always going to want some free information. Coming from consulting I have always been taught that its really hard to charge for something once you have already given it away for free. Many agents out there are still in the information delivery business. Wake up, with MLS being pretty much public and free CMA stuff everywhere and lastly bazillion of bloggers giving tips for home selling. If you are selling information to your clients and expecting your half of the commissions for delivering information you are overcharging. They can get all that for free.

Now if you are giving advice and delivering a real service now you are adding value.

Housevalues like any other pay for lead service will need to be evaluated on how far along the lead is in maturity or validity. Forget the fact you are starting off by giving information for free but rather focus on the fact you are in the service and advisor business.

I guess you could waste a day at an open house and get the same type of lead.

I would like your thoughts, not just on HouseValues, but all pay for lead services ePerks ect.

-Lee

I am going to be blatant on this one, I just got passed in rankings by an agent posting old stuff to their blog so hey I can play that game...

Actually they did it two many times and I just can't bring myself to doing it. Ah you say you would not do that either. Well do you blog for SEO, I bet you do. Most of us do (The good ones do). But if you are not blogging original content or content of value whats the point. If you get them there you will not be able to keep them. Good luck getting them to go that extra step and become your client.

In this new web 2.0 world let me challenge agents, stop blogging for points or ranking or visits. You are in the home selling biz, so unless those hits hit your listings or turn into clients what is the point?

I am not down on blogging, [Hello reading one now right?] I just think your postings should be authentic. You wrote them for your clients to read and be won over by your professionalism and real estate knowledge. If authenticity does not work, forget what I said and go back spreading graffiti all over the net. 

Well good luck, maybe its a pipe dream but I hope to float to the top while still being authentic.

Post your rants here if you too are tired of people blogging for "points" 

-Lee 

 

PS. if they are going to be stuff you did not right, call it that, I call my feeds. Same practice but maybe a little more honest. 

It's almost a new year, and if you have not gotten your business plan for 2008 already, your in trouble, but you are normal. Coming from the corporate world annual planning is taken very serious, but it also is a joke. Pretty much it takes two months to bureaucratic paper work and reports and budget meetings to finally come up with numbers, and then they have to work up the food chain to get approval.

 Unfortunately and fortunately right now in real estate I am a one man show. Actually, I get help from my wife but I don't write a check to her, maybe next year I will, [too much paper work for me to think about right now] Anyways the point is that budgeting and project forecasting is still very important to me, and I do it. But I still seem to be spending two months to get it done, granted its not all I am doing for November and December. Why does it take so long to put down on paper what you want to do next year.

Well maybe I am just set in my corporate ways and just not ready for the one man show yet. I know I am not the only Realtor that struggles with trying to get that done. Well I did it. Surely there was a better way! Anyone out there willing to share a link to their blog or flat out post a reply to some tips for real estate business planning and budgeting.

 Thank you,

 Lee

I decided in 2008 I am going to focus my efforts on my own neighborhood. This last year I have been spread all over the Woodlands and Spring. I live in Imperial Oaks for several years now and I love this neighborhood. It's a master planned community with its own elementary school, parks, pools, tennis courts, trails, and more... This neighborhood sees a lot of action. Many move in and move every year, there also is a small but health rental market here too. I am in the process of getting neighborhood score cards for investors and those looking to buy or sell in Imperial Oaks The score card is not up yet I plan to have my first neighborhood score card up by Dec. 15 so look for it then. Until then if any of you all have tried this before or want to make recommendations for what to put on it I am all ears! So what I am thinking at this point would be basic statistics. Average days on market with volume should give a good representation of liquidity. Then also show the average sales price per square foot, and then some rental stats. What do you all think?

 -Lee

Now technically I will not be counting myself a true Houstonian for a while being that I really live in The Woodlands and I still have had lived in Austin longer than I have so far in the Houston area. I am loving it here so far but I miss Austin no mistake about it. 

When I lived in Austin everyone would tell me how much more expensive it is to live there and by all the numbers they would show me it was true. So imagine my surprise when we [Houston] get beat out by both Dallas and Austin in MSN's top 10 most affordable places to live.

What?  For real top 10. I am not sure where Houston ranked, I don't take MSN's journalism skills to mean much to my day to day.

But if you don't believe me here it is LINK 

Since I primarily do business in The Woodlands, I knew that Austin was more affordable than this area, but I would have to say for the apples to apples homes I would say there is not much difference in price. But what may be affecting Austin's number is the large amount of national builders that have moved in recently and popped up hundreds of lower priced homes moving the median. These areas are on the outskirts of town. So still to my understanding if you want to live anywhere near "old" Austin you will still be paying a pretty penny. 

Wow, I did not even get a chance to tell you all it was finally on the market. I put it on MLS on Friday at midnight; Saturday we had a few showings. On Sunday we had an offer in hand; and by Tuesday it was an accepted offer. So if you have someone interested in the property we are still showing and taking back ups, because this offer is set to close by Nov. 6th so if something falls through we will still have plenty of time to sell it again. This was a nice start I wish every listing sold his quickly.

This was ahead of schedule for the sellers, so I was fearful to ask them to commit to such an aggressive schedule to get them out of their current home. They greeted the challenge openly. The truly understood that they would rather move out early rather than be stuck with not moving at all. The inspectors are coming tomorrow, everything should go well and we will be set to close in two weeks.

Again if you did not get a chance to see the home and want to just give me a call. I can still make that happen. Who knew, well I did, that The Woodlands TX Real Estate Selling would be so much fun.

$115,000 87 OLDSTREAM 3/2 1254 sqft The Woodlands TX Real Estate

This home will be available 10/22/2007

 It is a beautiful three bedroom. Brand new laminate flooring in living room and master bedroom. New paint. New landscaping. Great curb appeal. At the end of the cul-de-sac. A truly great family friendly home right off one of The Woodlands many trails. Large back yard with deck and multiple landscaped flowerbeds.

I want to be your Realtor® of choice. I was not born in Texas but as they say "I got here as fast as I could." So, I grew up in Texas in a construction family and moved around a lot so, I have lived in most big Texas cities. I graduated from the University of Texas At Austin with a bachelor in Economics. The last five years I have been in the HR consulting industry working with Fortune 500 companies. Combine my skills growing up in construction with my knowledge of economics then polished with consulting with the Fortune 500's. I find that in The Woodlands TX Real Estate is all about the people and following a sound process. I have a track record of success in those two areas. I am ready to meet your real estate needs.

As your Realtor®, it is my job to understand your needs and respond to them promptly, professionally and with integrity. It is my pledge to provide you with sound real estate advice, helping you to understand the wisdom of the decisions you make.

By being your Realtor®, our relationship is built on trust. Value and service will be provided before, during, and after the transaction, so that your changing needs are always addressed and satisfied.

It is not only my business philosophy, but also a commitment to provide you with exemplary personalized service beyond your expectations. My practice is to listen, hear and truly understand your needs; a quality of business conduct that often seems to have been forgotten in today's fast paced, highly automated society.

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