I'm a Realtor, Not a Dominatrix. As humorist Dave Barry might say, I am not making this story up. One of my seller clients decided to feel some remorse about not taking an early offer on his home. When we listed the house, we provided a range in which we thought it could sell and told him that t
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04/26/2011
Remember the 1980s? Miami Vice was on TV, its cast sporting pastel clothes and Ray-Ban sunglasses to go with their automatic weapons. (Buy the DVDs here from Amazon.) Michael Douglas was younger and hotter and telling us that "greed is good" in Wall Street. Tom Wolfe was writing the Great Americ
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04/26/2011
Search for Edwardsville Homes for Sale and Real Estate with No Registration RequiredWant to search for homes for sale in Edwardsville, Illinois and surrounding communities but don't like forced registration on real estate websites?You know what? Neither do I.Before I was a Realtor, I was a consu
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04/17/2011
I get questions very often about the accuracy of the Zillow Zestimate. (For those of you saying, "huh?" right now, Zillow is a popular real estate website which gathers information from a variety of public sources to produce an estimate of property value they call a "Zestimate.") Sellers worry
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04/06/2011
Selling Your Home? There's Only One Good Way to Reach Younger Buyers Today -- By Texting. This revelation about the necessity of texting occurred to me a number of years ago when I was frustrated with trying to reach my daughter the old school way -- phone, email, etc. The only method that worked
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04/02/2011
