selling real estate: Real Estate, If You Could Color the Home Inside, Out, Where You Live Might Affect Selection. - 05/05/10 04:04 PM
As a Maine real estate broker, the color of a home is one of many factors a buyer considers when making an emotional, exciting but scary purchase of property. In the area I serve in Southern Aroostook County and parts of Northern Washington, Penobscot Counties, white is a prevalent color for homes. The classic red barn can complete the New England rural America picture book setting on many farms we list, market, sell. But on just single family homes, dark colors like brown are always hard to get good exterior shots. Yellow is a color that a buyer either likes or … (2 comments)
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selling real estate: The Maine House Is Empty, Owners Out Of Town, Should You Rent The Home During A Sale? - 04/13/10 09:54 AM
A vacant Maine house, a home that is vacant, waiting for a SOLD sign on the front lawn and you toying with the idea to rent it out or not. You the property owner have heard, seen horror stories about renters that destroy a place. Had to be practically tear gassed to get them out, exhausting all the legal remedies, deputy sheriff visits. But you yourself would be a super duper renter, off to work and when home puttering to make it neat, clean, better. Finding a renter as good as your respect for the place would provide a happy ending … (10 comments)
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selling real estate: Eyes Forward, Stand Up Straight Soldier..er I Mean REALTOR... Now Drop For 50 Double Time. - 03/26/10 08:41 AM
Being a REALTOR...peddling property, listing, marketing, selling real estate. Do you have the Moxie, the gumption, the drive, desire, will and the skills to pull it off, make a dent, be a success? Ten qualities that your boot camp drill sargeant will zero in on if you are wet behind the ears, timid and just comtemplating a career in real estate.
ONE You have your license. All done, all down hill from here right? NOoooo. All up hill. Real estate sales is not just a license hanging on the wall and an automatic cash cow. Do you like, work well with … (23 comments)
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selling real estate: Marketing Real Estate...Like Having A Six Shooter With Only So Many Silver Bullets. - 02/09/10 02:53 PM
If money was no object in selling real estate, you would have seen several of our property listings during the Super Bowl. Between plays on the big game Sunday. And you would see the same listings plastered all over full page ads in the Wall Street Journal, Hartford Courant, Providence Journal, New Yorker. Targeted for places with media in areas like Scottsdale Arizona, Marco Island Florida, Newport Rhode Island, Manhattan NY, Marthas Vineyard. And anywhere else where folks have Bentleys, Hummer Alpha Ones parked in their multi car garages.
But unless a real estate broker has hit the lottery, those are … (0 comments)
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selling real estate: REALTORS Deal With People, Their Lives, Get In To Their Homes, See Their Families. - 12/11/09 08:13 AM
I like my job. Not pinned to the office wall by a desk for 10 hours straight...but out with people. Listing houses, land, farms, whatever on a kitchen table. Or sitting at a closing with a variety of lawyers shuffling paperwork while a couple's baby watches the process. You think about that child growing up in a home you were able to put a loan together when their financial situation was new and shaky. You worry about the child. You think of your own.
But in your own personal life is it a shiny red car that makes you … (5 comments)
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selling real estate: The 8 Bedroom Maine Home...Used To Be Super For Farm Size Families But Not The 1.6 Kids Per Household Now. - 11/27/09 10:58 AM
Less than 2 kids per household average...and you just listed a smasher size home with extra helping of everything. One that is big enough for three generations under one roof. Mom and dad out back in the first floor section..just like the Walton's TV show. And the hire hands sleep over the woodshed in the back shed chamber. You and the Mrs and all those kids around a 22 foot long Thanksgiving table.
Selling the big Maine home means pointing out how to convert to apartments, a bed and breakfast inn or using a good section for a home … (2 comments)
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selling real estate: Remember The Grocery Game...Where You Have A Cart, A Whistle Blows, A Stop Watch Is Ticking? - 09/01/09 07:06 AM
Ready, set, load the cart. You have sixty seconds to wheel around the aisles of a grocery store filling your cart. Then careening wildly to the original starting point by the time the whistle shrieks as the mad dash ends. You head to the meat section, the health and beauty aids. The gold plated section of the store. If you were a smoker, professional drinker, you might hit the sin section. The object to get the most dollar volume in the cart during the time period you have to work with. Beat the buffet thinking. Gouging, binging, both hands raking … (4 comments)
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selling real estate: The Seller Of Real Estate Is Blunt, To The Point And A Tad Over The Top. - 06/08/09 10:27 PM
This seller is borderline angry and you react how? Do you try to see the source of the anger and if you are the primary or partial cause? Do you get up in arms, feathers ruffled and think he has no right to treat you this way? Or during the listing, did you take time to study his motivation for sale and know the pressure he is under to sell before losing the place that has a tittering, non performing mortgage? Misunderstandings, short tempers, emotions. We are all human and have good and bad days juggling life, events, relationships. Being tough … (4 comments)
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selling real estate: Sweating, Nervousness, Jittery, Mind Racing, Scared...What Real Estate Sellers Worry About. - 05/19/09 12:11 PM
You lay awake nights and wonder did I pick a dud for a real estate agent? You thought he was on the ball, sharp, ready to be gung ho and that's the last time you have seen him, the listing. You wonder if an alien mother ship splashed a bright blue light on his home and sucked him up and away. But come relisting time, if you've been trying to sell your real estate for awhile, is he suddenly back with bells on, lovey dovey and smiling ear to ear with pen in hand for that re-listing?
During your showings, did … (3 comments)
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selling real estate: Dirty Little Secrets, Dirty Little Real Estate Lies. - 04/06/09 10:51 AM
You hear them day in and day out. Real estate lies, dirty little secrets. Here is a list of a few that are warped logic but you hear seller's preaching them like the Gospel. Sellers can become lost without the guidance of a professional, full time real estate broker, to guide them like a map.
Lie # 1 "The home is not selling, I think the price is too low, that's the reason so let's hoist what it says on the price tag $50,000 to get some action, some real attention. Yeah, that's it, price too low and folks are wary, … (6 comments)
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selling real estate: "I Love You ...But I'm Not In Love With You!" - 08/07/08 09:49 PM
The buyer likes the price, is excited about the location and it matches eight of ten top criteria he/she/they gave Joe Broker to fill their housing order. But. They love it..but are not in love with it. Understand that plateau of emotions for attachement, excitement and passion for real estate ? It's the same in relationships with the opposite sex. Keep looking and touring homes until that home hits the bell for them. Don't be too Spock like and logical in the search for that perfect home for your client. Find a few homes that shake it up and offer a few … (8 comments)
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selling real estate: Old Home, No Heat, No House Cleaner, No Sound Of Laughter...Neglected, Abandoned. - 02/17/08 05:35 PM
As a real estate broker tours an old home, the silence is replaced with audio increasing of families laughing, lawn mowers going and ice tea or lemonade afterwards on the open porch that may be gone now. Life happens, sifts like hour glass sand. As real estate brokers, we are on the front line of what happens to property when the owners die, when estates need settling, when divorce hits, when fire happens, when alcohol takes away the ability to keep mortgage payments current. We see the pathos and reality of live and its our job to make the most … (4 comments)
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selling real estate: You Are a Real Estate Broker, Hanging Up The Car Keys And Now What? No Ride? - 02/15/08 06:23 PM
What if you were a real estate broker that said no more gas bills, got a problem and eliminating it. Could you do it like a what if excercise like being on a deserted island and how would you handle the new challenge? Like a reality TV series on the real estate broker that took his pedal bike when the weather was right to property listings, showings, closings. Work with me here. You always have buyers meet you at the office, go with them in their car which usually has a car carrier for the little one so easier than moving … (0 comments)
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selling real estate: Look Closely..(Squinting) Would You Call This Home Haunted? - 09/14/07 08:24 PM
Horror writer Stephen King owns this West Broadway Bangor Maine home and has made a good living writing about the macabre. The iron fence with bats gives the place the Herman Munster look..something that has added to the mystique of King's writing. Would you think the home could be haunted? Would it add to the value if it was? Would it hurt a sale of the place you just listed if a home had the reputation of being infested with spirits from the other side? Would you add value for it? Listed anything lately or know of property in your … (10 comments)
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