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agent: Creating a better "standard of practice" for agent to agent or broker to broker referrals - 01/14/12 12:54 PM
As your blogging, web marketing and social media efforts grow into more contacts from consumers requesting assistance in buying and selling real estate, you will find that many of them are not quite in your own market area. Maybe right now you are too busy to take on one more client so ask someone in your office to help.  Or perhaps for whatever reason - they want a short sale and you don't elect to do those, for instance - these people should be referred to another great realty professional.
Carefully, you locate and select just the right Realtor or … (15 comments)

agent: Common Myths About the FIRPTA, How to Complete & Use It (and How to Avoid Using It Too) - 11/27/10 12:57 PM
Lately I have been given a lot of incomplete FIRPTAs from listing agents in & near Silicon Valley with the request (or demand) that my buyers sign them.  They explain "we don't have to provide the social to the buyers anymore".  These well intentioned agents have mixed up two choices and provided something of a hybrid that cannot be used to satisfy the requirement of the form. Hence this post.
It's not just happening to me and to my buyers. There's an immense amount of confusion about how to properly complete and handle the FIRPTA form in California real estate sales.  … (3 comments)

agent: Tip For the Day, Sellers and Agents: Google the Name - 07/04/07 12:26 PM
A few minutes ago, I was reading Jackie Colson-Miller's excellent post, The Power of Google...and An Unusual Name. I started writing a response and realized it was too, too long to be on someone else's entry. It had gotten me thinking about something I do and something I teach that I do not believe I've shared here before in Active Rain. So, Jackie - thanks for jogging my memory on this point. In a nutshell, here it is:Google yourself (if you're in real estate). Google your agent (if you are thinking of hiring someone to help you buy or sell a … (12 comments)

 
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Mary Pope-Handy, ABR, CRS, ePRO, SRES, ASP

Los Gatos, CA

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Sereno Group Real Estate

Address: 214 Los Gatos-Saratoga Road, Los Gatos, CA, 95030

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