agent: You're Not Worth My Gas Money
- 04/21/11 10:13 AM
Last week a woman called me, desperate for help. We’ll call her Natalie. She had gotten my contact information from her sister, who had gotten it from a friend who is also a friend of mine. (Thank you!) Natalie was in town for one week and needed to find a place for her family to live. Finding a place to live is very stressful, especially when you’re in a new town and you only have a week to do it. I believe our job as real estate agents is to ease the stress. We do this by providing solutions. When I … (2 comments)
agent: How Well Do You Know Your REALTOR®?
- 01/19/11 03:36 AM
How well do you know your REALTOR®? Does it matter? Lately when I meet new clients I don’t spend much time talking about myself; they already know where I’m from, what I like to do, and how long I’ve been practicing real estate. Last summer I was showing houses to a couple I had just met. We were walking up to the front door of the second house when out of the blue he said, “So what made you join the Army?” As you can imagine, there was more than a slight hesitation as my mind raced to figure out how … (3 comments)
agent: Is Your Agent Working FOR You or AGAINST You?
- 07/22/10 01:43 PM
One very important reason for hiring a real estate agent is to take emotion out of the equation for you when you’re negotiating the terms of a sale. A real estate agent should be knowledgeable, professional, level-headed, and unemotional when communicating with buyers, sellers, and fellow agents. If an agent loses his cool it can really hurt your negotiating position – or worse, cause the deal to completely fall apart. Tuesday night I received a faxed offer on one of my listings. It was lucky I saw it since it came in at 8:00 p.m. and he didn’t call or e-mail … (6 comments)
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Last week a woman called me, desperate for help. We’ll call her Natalie. She had gotten my contact information from her sister, who had gotten it from a friend who is also a friend of mine. (Thank you!) Natalie was in town for one week and needed to find a place for her family to live.
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