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Thus far, our expired lettershave not brought us any new leads. I know the problem is me, not the tactic, since it is working for so may others. Plus, a closing we had scheduled fell through and we just received our last paycheck from the Cobb County School District. (For our new readers- … (3 comments)
Today I went out on my expired drop-offs. I had one in particular that I wanted to visit and drop-off information to. Unfortunately they were not home, but when I arrived, I started taking notice of the curb appeal, the exterior condition of the home and other things that realtors notice … (9 comments)
Jump into the expired listing niche market
Are
You Ready To Jump Into The Expired Listing Niche Market? 
As real estate professionals we wake up and are immediately surrounded by BAD NEWS! Turn on the TV BAD NEWS! Read the Newspaper BAD NEWS! Meet someone new on the street and they ask you what you do, and you respond "I sell real estate" their response "Wow, do you even … (4 comments)
After months of calling expireds and FSBO's the rejection started to get to me, I had a choice to make. Most books about prospecting tells you that you have to call expireds call FSBOs and try and get their business.
I had a short discussion with an agent recently about our web leads and how we contact them. "If they give me a phone number on the registration page of my website, I'll call them immediately or as soon as possible" I said. The other agent replied that she has done that a … (20 comments)
I was thinking about expired listings today and how much I am dedicated to helping them, even if much of the time they do not want my help. Being from Boston my whole life, I began to think about the great movie, Good Will Hunting. For those of you who have … (4 comments)
AR Real estate professionals. 
I have been trying for six months to get a listing on a house that I think is simply a fantastic home.
It's gives me the warm fuzzies when I realize just how much of an opportunity there is for every Realtor in the business right now. We are in a real estate market where the 3P's just don't work anymore. (PUT the sign up, PUTit in the MLS and PRAY) Believe it … (0 comments)
"Thomas Edison failed 1,000 times before he invented the light bulb.""Colonel Sanders offered his recipe to 1,000 restaurants before one finally took it." 
I just wanted to post this about approaching expired listings. I have found that by putting together a nice package made exclusively for those that had homes listed and now are in that never never land of the expired. I have had much success using this package to get their attention and … (16 comments)
Yesterday, I blogged about For Sale By Owners. Today, when I went to my office I decided I would concentrate on the expired listings that come up on the local hot sheet. I was amazed at how many expired listings there were in the past 5 days. The number was probably … (8 comments)
We got a call yesterday from our listing that had expired. It was a sphere listing and was overpriced so it didn't sell (he knew it and we knew it) but that's not the point of this post. By noon yesterday, he'd had calls from four agents (two from our company … (5 comments)
Do Expired Letters Work? I have been told the best way to get an expired listing is to knock on someones door and ask them. It's the holiday season and I am a little hesitant to interrupt holiday celebrations and festivities especially when there are news reports of people scamming … (1 comments)
I don't know why I hate it but I do. It really bugs me when agents let their listing expire and then re-list them under another MLS number so it shows up as a new listing with less days on the market. I always do a history search but I know … (65 comments)
In the Atlanta area we now have twice as many homes expire each month than sell! In October we had about 3500 sales of single family homes in all of Atlanta on our FMLS. We also had 7000 expired listings the same month! There is no reason for this! This is … (0 comments)
Today, I am finalizing plans for a new method of building my business. Since farming mailers are expensive and not very effective because they lack personal contact, I was trying to come up with a way to make personal contact with potential clients. The downside here, of course, is that you … (9 comments)
Our Metro Atlanta MLS system compiles the data and is off by one month, but the numbers are striking. Atlanta Real Estate is actually still producing appreciation and is only in a "slump" relative to it's own statistical data. 
Dou you work the FSBO & Expired market?
This is part 2 of a special report on Lead Generation that I am writing. I'd love to hear what you think of it.
I worked with a newer agent in my company lately about how I used to work expireds. Admittedly, I didn't do it very long (before shifting focus for awhile and later getting good success in Internet marketing) but I did get good results when I did it. Owners whose listings have … (34 comments)
It's hard to believe it's Saturday afternoon of day five. It's been a long week so I'll keep this post short. I'll post a "week in review" in the next day or two. so for right now let me provide you with a recap.
After reading here and elsewhere it seems to me that by not diving into this market I may be missing the boat. I started going after this market back in October with an initial packet and than a series of 9 postcards on yellow stock with stuff like guarantees to sell … (0 comments)
Do you do mailings to expireds or withdrawn owners? And if so, what are they like? What do you say? Its something I've been thinking about with the many expireds I see on the MLS each day...
In today's market there is a gold mine of opportunity waiting for you. The expired listing is one of the easiest sources of inventory for a savvy agent. Most agents do not have a blueprint for getting expired listings to list with them. So, if you feel that you are not … (9 comments)
If you find yourself playing solitaire on office duty, or just talking to every other agent in the office to avoid boredom...here are some suggestions as to what you could be doing to build yourself professionally while wasting time during office duty.
1. Catch up on all that filing that you … (3 comments)
Prospecting... a word that before this week drove terror in my heart! A few synonyms in my opinion would have been intrusive, irritating, annoying, unprofitable, and pretty much all that is horrible and negative! However, I have started to prospect by going door to door passing out business cards, visiting expireds and FSBO's, … (114 comments)
I've just about tapped the FSBO inventory here, as well as nearly every expired listing within a fifty-mile radius. I'm working now to build up my visibility in the area by meetin' and greetin' the local business owners. As a "new again" agent, I don't have unlimited resources to market and … (28 comments)
Nothing would make me happier if each of my agents called 5 expireds per week, a minimum of one per day. I won't hold my breath waiting for that pipe dream to come true, ha, ha, but what I definitely don't want is anyone calling on any of ours, especially if the seller … (1 comments)
I am right now taking a 3-day S.U.R.E. results seminar with Darryl Davis. S.U.R.E stands for Success is Unlimited in Real Estate. I am really learning from the seminar. Great dialogues for FSBO, expireds, handling objections, etc. 
After doing a Google search for Retiquette, I believe I am coining a new term for Realtor® Etiquette. Now don't call me Emily (Post) but I'm hoping many more will jump in here and add their Retiquette experience where a fellow Realtor® pulls you aside and says, "That's not the way … (17 comments)
I have recently been getting e-mails from people who have been looking up information about expired listings and they found me. I have gotten a few testimonies about how we real estate agents never know where our buyer will come from. I am going to combine a few remarks because I … (1 comments)