real estate careers: Where Did Positve Thinking Go Wrong? - 09/11/09 10:44 AM
Positive
Thinking and the Realities of Real Estate.
There are many persons in real estate and in the world today that
believe that positive thinking will over come all. Positive
thinking is great, but if you are walking across a dessert a canteen
full of water will be a … (168 comments)
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real estate careers: 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 careers: What is Next for Real Estate? - 08/16/09 11:48 PM
Home sales are up in many areas, but have recently slowed again from the numbers I am seeing. And although a lot of agents are doing cartwheels that good times are back, they are not back for home sellers where distressed property pricing is still what is driving most real estate … (76 comments)
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real estate careers: When to Say No! - 08/12/09 08:43 PM
This past week I have been inudated to give interviews for local, and national media. One interview would be a live national webinar for a major national news media company, and the other was for a local news complete with a TV camera interview. Now I have given many radio, television, and newspaper interviews in the … (20 comments)
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real estate careers: 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 careers: Have You Re-Thought Your Real Estate Business? - 03/10/09 08:09 PM
Real estate as we know it has effectively changed for some time to come. E-Z money and deals have also become a lot harder to come by, but most in real estate do not know how to start a re-transformation of themselves and the business. They act as if nothing has happened … (38 comments)
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real estate careers: 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 careers: 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 careers: The "Real" in Real Estate. - 02/02/09 02:20 PM
You just received your signage, cards and stationary for the new office you just moved to...and the broker has announced he is retiring. He is only 35 years old!
The buyer you were working for 2 years just announced they got their real estate license.
The home you had listed … (139 comments)
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real estate careers: 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 careers: New Strategies for Success! Active or Passive Marketing? You Chose! - 06/20/08 01:37 PM
Active Vs. Passive Marketing: Changing Real Estate Markets. Strategies to Succeed. A new article of mine has just been published in RealtyTimes.Com that reflects how to redefine the way you do business in our current real estate market. In the last few years anything worked! If we could fog up a mirror, we … (7 comments)
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real estate careers: When Agents Leave Real Estate Sometimes It is a Good Thing for All. - 06/04/08 10:24 PM
When agents leave real estate sometimes it is a good thing for all. It allows for a regrouping of business ideas, reflection and new direction for all. It is a sobering and cleansing event that will allow the industry to thrive once again. The dreams of fast money and a glamorous … (51 comments)
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real estate careers: 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 careers: 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 careers: Real Estate Is Like A Roller Coaster Ride Hang On Tight! - 06/17/07 09:41 PM
Over the years in real estate I would chuckle a lot persons putting together a business plan, business statements etc. It is imn my opinion a total waste of time. Why? Because we are in a very different business. In good times real estate has been known to have an 80% turn … (22 comments)
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real estate careers: Did you ever have one of those days? - 04/16/07 08:49 AM
Did you ever have one of those days or weeks where you are minding the business and the phones are not ringing, and you think gee, maybe the website is down. It's awfully quiet! The silence is deafening! It reminds you of the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still!" … (19 comments)
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real estate careers: I love real estate. - 03/01/07 07:32 PM
I LOVE Real Estate!
When you think about it, real estate is one of the most rewarding careers a person could ever have. We do not have to get into the car and commute during normal work hours. We are not strictly set into working a 9-5 job, hitting a time clock. I can own … (21 comments)
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