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SHUT UP AND SELL!!!

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Buyers' Choice Realty

The Media is not the culprit...   The Ostrich Syndrome in full swing...  Your opinion please!

A lot has been written about the media giving us too much bad news.  As an immigrant from a communist country, I have extraordinary appreciation for the media of the free world. 

Our economy is what it is.  The intrepid agents will find ways to cope with the current market conditions.  I have seen a lot of amazing recipes for success on this very site, and I am immensely thankful for this remarkable world of ActiveRain. 

Some have suggested that we should refute the media consensus.  Why?  All they do is report the truth.  I knew the market was tanking way before the media picked up on it, and my investors all benefited from that insight.  Good agents will find a way to navigate these uncertain seas with unique new services, products and marketing innovations.  The same old things don't work anymore.  Inserting a listing into the MLS no longer gets much of a result; the listing gets buried in a deluge of other properties.   

What an exciting time this is!!!   You actually have to work your listings...  You have to learn new things.  Invent new ways!  Observe!  Learn!  Grow!  Be creative!  Network!  Study!  Embrace new ways!  Grow technologically!  Educate yourself!

  A down market is a great thing for the savvy investor!   Make the best of it!  By the time the media catches on to the market swinging upwards, it's already too late.  Buy while the market is still moving down.  As long as you are buying on the downturn, you will do well.  Don't wait to see signs of the upturn, for it will be too late... 

The "herd mentality" brought prices to unrealistic new levels in many hot areas of the country.  The same areas are now hurting in a unique, new way...  Learn from that!  Train your Buyers!  Donald Trump is buying, why shouldn't you?

What a great time for buying Real Estate this is!!!   So, shut up and sell!  ...But do tell me what you are doing differently that works for you in this market!

Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection, Mirela Monte

www.MyrtleBeachHomes.us

 

 

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Comments (8)

Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

I am anxiously awaitiing your responses.  Ideas please!

Nov 16, 2007 09:43 AM
Larry Wright
nwRealty.Com - Tacoma, WA
Mirela ... you just need a motivated buyer.  Market conditions may tighten things substantially but the basic motivations for a new home are unchanged ... births, deaths, divorces, new jobs, lost jobs, growing/shrinking family, etc.
Nov 16, 2007 09:54 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

If we motivate our investor clients to pick up property now, they will thank us later...

Thanks for your comment, Larry!

Nov 16, 2007 09:56 AM
Jason Botelho
Keller Williams Utah Realtors - Saratoga Springs, UT
Here in Utah, the media has but little effect.  The buyers are strong, it's the sellers here.  Sellers are reluctant to acknowledge where the market is and price their homes accordingly
Nov 16, 2007 10:51 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

Don't worry Jason!  Given the time factor, they'll come down to reality.  Read my blog:  "Yes, Mr. Seller, you should have taken $ 175,000!!!"

Thanks for the comment, Jason!

Nov 16, 2007 10:56 AM
John MacArthur
Century 21 Redwood - Washington, DC
Licensed Maryland/DC Realtor, Metro DC Homes
Mirela - Thank you for sharing this. You mentioned something I believe completely. The media is only reporting the truth. I just finished sharing that there is a reason that the housing slump is shared in the same half hour as Tsunami's, war, presidential campaigns, etc. It is news. Yes, it is bad news. But it is what it is. Our job is to accept the truth and share the truth with our clients. Sugar coating may make a pill go down easier, but it still remains the same medicine inside. Once we just accept that our job is to share the truth, it will be easier to work with clients in any market.
Nov 16, 2007 12:34 PM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate
Well put John!  Thank you!
Nov 16, 2007 12:54 PM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate
An old one, but a good one!
Feb 25, 2008 03:25 PM