Brass, Not Class - 03/27/08 07:51 PM
I recently received (as did many other agents, I'm sure) an email ‘offer' from a ‘referral agent' in California, who is billing herself as a ‘short sale expert'. She is seeking ‘fellow successful agents, brokers and colleagues' to assist as she has a ‘pre-qualified Short Sale Seller' in my area. Her ‘physical distance from your geographical area poses a challenge for me to complete this transaction successfully on my own without a local agent's contribution'.
Well, we all love referrals, don't we? I do, actually, like, often love referrals. But here's the kicker with this agent-her terms-‘50% referral split on both the sellers … (1 comments)

Sex, Votes and Real Estate - 03/11/08 08:06 AM
Yesterday was a political junkie's dream come true. We had massive chatter about what to do about Michigan
and Florida's mishandled primaries; we had Eliot Spitzer get caught with his pants down (sorry, I couldn't resist),
and Silda Spitzer singing "Stand By Your Man" (she must have taken lessons from Hilary Clinton). Of course, we
also had the spectacle of what happens when the geeky brainiac girl thinks the hot jock will actually go to the
prom with her, as demonstrated by Barack Obama's emphatic statement to the world at large, and particularly,
Hilary Clinton: "I am not running for Vice-President!" … (6 comments)

SKIP THE KOOL-AID, GET THE FACTS! - 03/03/08 08:21 PM
I was starting a class today when one of my students asked me: "Is it true that this market is the worst it's ever
been? There are agents in my office who have been in the business 20, 25 years, and they are saying this is the
worst they've ever seen the market."  I said, unequivocably: "NO! This market is not the worst I've ever seen,
 and it sounds like the agents you are talking about have been sitting down and 'drinking the Kool-Aid' with the
news media." With all due respect to the third estate, bad news sells; good news is … (0 comments)