There is a real estate coach that mentioned often that other professions takes years of practice before they started to work and make money. Doctors spend 8 years in school. Airplane pilots spend thousands of hours in similation and training. For real estate agent, we just go to a few classes a
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09/29/2010
Times has changed. More and more people are going online every day. They are also spending more time connected online through their phones such as Blackberries, iPhones, laptops, and even iPads. All of this are constantly going up while readership on direct newsprints are going down. This mad
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09/27/2010
Today was a very busy day starting the day waking up at 7am, leaving the house 20 minutes before 8am to run down the West San Gabriel Association of Realtors to help out with their five city official meeting where the mayors and City Managers of San Gabriel, Rosemead, Montebello, Monterey Park,
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09/24/2010
Reality is that many homeowners in America are losing their homes. Real estate agents can help these home owners to negotiate a short sale with the banks and hopefully sale the home and get the deficiency forgiven. There are many seminars and webinars these days talking about short sales and sh
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09/22/2010
Recently I read an article comparing U.S. Presidents like George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama before they became President and after on how fast they age. It was amazing on how a few years can age a person so fast. The job must be very stressful and they might have many slee
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09/21/2010
Many people might not initially know the difference between "working in your business" and "working on your business" because the word "in" and "on" is just different by one letter yet is a big difference on the outcome. People who work in the business would spend most of their time doing t
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09/19/2010
An experienced agent/owner once told me, "House sell houses, agents screw up the deal by talking too much". He is right that if we talk, we are not listening to the clients. The less we talk the less we say things that could mess up the deal. That sounds right, but could you also mess up the
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09/19/2010
"Mr. and Mrs. Seller, price is the only concern. If we set the right price for your home, it will sell." Unless I say something stupid to the buyers, don't let other people know about your home, make it hard for buyers to preview the home, etc. Some agents are taught to lead sellers to believ
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09/18/2010
The computer has become our everyday tool. We use it to check emails, get the latest news, play games, update our social media profiles and blogs at LinkedIn, MySpace, and Active Rain. Even though we might back up the data, what happens if all of a sudden the computer no longer work? Window
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09/16/2010
Recently while having a cold iced mocha frapaccino at a local Star Bucks, I was overhearing a couple of people on the next table talking about homes, mortgage rates, and prices. The next thing I heard is this lady asking the guy in front of her if he is an average agent? First the guy seem off
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09/15/2010