balanced market: It's All About Value: Fee-For-Service or Commission?
- 06/27/10 09:08 AM
The home buying and selling public do not always understand a real estate sales professional’s value, and in many cases they believe all real estate agents do the same thing. When someone perhaps not properly informed is preyed upon, buying business by offering lower prices is relatively easy. This is the essence of (real estate) commoditization, and in my opinion, using the cost of selling is the laziest and riskiest method to market with. When the consumer is presented the full spectrum of service models (and credentials) to understand and make an informed choice, value (versus price commoditizing) should win every (4 comments)
balanced market: How far over the market value constitutes an overpriced property?
- 05/02/08 03:59 PM
We can all relate to the timewasters which "The Ethics Guy", Kim Spencer, touches on: "Time, it's not on our side; tick-tock, tick-tock"One of my peeves is showing misrepresented properties; the ‘one bedroom and den being represented as a two bedroom' example Kim raises wastes my time, my client's time, and skews the information for anyone doing a CMA on a two bedroom. Chances are you won't know about this misrepresentation until you arrive at the showing and see it, unless of course you're very familiar with the specific property itself. Perhaps the biggest misrepresentation and timewaster of all (yet least (7 comments)
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