real estate agents: My Son Thomas Joined our Atlanta Real Estate Business | Thomas Crawford REMAX Greater Atlanta - 09/23/09 03:11 PM
We just wanted to wait until it was official to announce our son Thomas has joined our Atlanta real estate business this month. We wanted to wait until his phones and website were up and running before making the announcement. We are thrilled! Thomas Crawford has joined the 'Crawford Team' in REMAX Greater Atlanta. We are expanding … (25 comments)
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real estate agents: Thanks But No Thanks! We Don't Do Dog & Pony Shows! - 09/16/09 04:44 PM
Occasionally in real estate we receive a call from a person that wants to sell a home and in the course of the conversation you start asking yourself if you even want the listing. On most properties, we will drive by the day before an appointment to see if there are … (27 comments)
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real estate agents: Real Estate and Cosmetics Sales Don't Mix! - 08/21/09 08:18 AM
Many of you know that I generate a lot of referral leads from the Internet. I share these leads and I've found that it is a great way to make money, and allow others in the industry to share the wealth. Recently leads are picking up, and many agents seem to be … (40 comments)
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real estate agents: Buyers Agent or Listing Agent? What is Your Preference? - 08/05/09 11:33 PM
Listing
Agents or Buyers Agents?
Doctors specialize and
so do most Atlanta real
estate agents. Some Atlanta real
estate agents only list homes,
and others will only work as buyers agents. There are agents that only
like to sell Atlanta
commercial real estate,
but that is not my cup of … (11 comments)
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real estate agents: Brokers Need to Explain Broker Reciprocity to Their Agents. - 07/20/09 12:27 AM
Each day in real estate we receive calls from buyers that have already identified they have an agent and want to see homes, or agents that want specific information on listings that were found on a website by their clients. On a typical day phone calls can start in the morning, … (111 comments)
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real estate agents: Wasting Time at the Expense of Others - A Real Estate Passtime? - 06/27/09 09:12 PM
I read an interesting article recently that talked about real estate agents that really just do not get it. Many of their actions are self defeating to say the least. They spend a lot of unproductive time needlessly pursuing businesses that is totally counterproductive. They will list overpriced homes that they will … (13 comments)
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real estate agents: Most Real Estate Agents Are Doomed to Fail. - 06/27/09 06:59 PM
Even in good times, real estate is an industry where over 80% of the agents will not make it. Most agents never survive in real estate because they did not enter the business with their eyes open. They became real estate agents because they assumed you can make quick easy money … (82 comments)
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real estate agents: Are Some Agents Candidates for the Real Estate Soupline? - 04/19/09 07:22 PM
I made several attempts yesterday to refer a seller lead out of state for a unique property that should be very salable to 5 agents. I did a lot of research online, and used criteria such as Active Rain company bios, CRS designations, websites and blogs. Each one of the agents … (45 comments)
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real estate agents: Unqualified Buyers - Show At Your Own Risk - 02/25/09 10:56 PM
Our FMLS in Atlanta has a story posted as a warning for personal safety which is very chilling. We all need to remind one another of the dangers of showing homes to unqualified buyers. It is disturbing because this is a very common scenario when showing condos especially. Because condo and town home … (16 comments)
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real estate agents: We Live in Different Times - Get Used to It! - 02/23/09 02:14 PM
This is a real estate Blog I feel compelled to write. I am always struck by the comments I read on Active Rain and have to ask myself "Does the agent have any sense of reality? Have they ever sold anything?" I feel many in the real estate industry today do … (150 comments)
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real estate agents: Does the Agent Work Full Time in Real Estate? - 02/15/09 09:48 AM
One of the biggest complaints in the Atlanta real estate market these days is from buyer agents that cannot get hold of the listing agent. This is now occurring all the time whether you are trying to show a home that demands notice to the listing agent before showing, or after … (16 comments)
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real estate agents: Is Your Web Out of Date or Purposely Misleading? - 12/28/08 03:03 PM
Since I live on the computer and I am constantly checking my websites or web placement I come across a lot of agents websites that are dead, out dated and non factual. Perhaps the agent has left the business, changed companies, or is not doing the business they used to. Well … (32 comments)
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real estate agents: Many Agents Have Retired – They Just Don’t Know It! - 12/01/08 08:14 AM
Since we run an Internet referral business it is interesting to see what happens in slow times. Many agents will tell you that they area really slow right now, and that they have never seen it this slow in all the years they have been in real estate, yada, yada Ad … (135 comments)
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real estate agents: Let Us Give Thanks for Our Real Estate Careers - 11/26/08 10:24 AM
What are we to be grateful for? In tough times there is always a lot of lamentations on what we could have had, or what we should have done but didn't. It really doesn't matter now anyway. It is all history. The older I get I find it is not as … (26 comments)
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real estate agents: Are You Helping or Enabling? - 10/27/08 09:26 AM
Are You Helping or Enabling? Sometimes we need to step back outside our roles and ask ourselves this question. It can apply to many people in life from agents - to buyers and sellers. Under the law - licensed real estate professionals are permitted (by state law in which they are licensed) … (27 comments)
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real estate agents: Real Estate is About Providing Solutions. Are You Doing Your Job? - 05/04/08 02:25 PM
A successful real estate carreer is more about life and serving the needs of others than it is about deals. All too often in real estate the needs of the Realtors are placed before their clients. Instead of referring to our homeowners or first time homebuyers, it is very common in real estate … (22 comments)
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real estate agents: Where Did All the Really Big Agents Go? - 04/20/08 12:16 PM
"When the going gets tough... the tough get going!" I was at a company mixer the other evening in Atlanta, and was talking to some very successful agents that were in the Atlanta real estate market much longer than I have been! It was interesting to talk with locals that have … (51 comments)
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real estate agents: Atlanta Real Estate Agents - How Many Are Enough? - 02/14/08 10:14 AM
Several years ago in the Atlanta real estate market we had about 8500 real estate agents that used our MLS systems, three years ago we went from 12500 agents to over 45000 agents. A 300% increase in a period of about 3-4 range. Wow! The problem for all is that Atlanta home … (19 comments)
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real estate agents: National Real Estate Market Conditions | How's Your Real Estate Market Holding Up? - 01/05/08 09:37 PM
I was curious to hear how are the real estate market conditions holding up in your market? In Atlanta real estate listing inventory has backed of just a little, but it is way too high considering the amount of sales that have fallen off. In December we had to re-list many of our listing … (12 comments)
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real estate agents: Real Estate Blog - Smart or Stupid? - 12/01/07 08:58 PM
I just came across an Atlanta real estate Blog where the real estate Blog's owner must have thought themselves a marketing genius! I thought they were just rather stupid, and should have done some research before posting their Atlanta real estate Blog! Perhaps they should have had a little discussion with … (22 comments)
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