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2011
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Potential listing client: I'd like to talk to you about listing my property. I've found you online and like what I've read. Alan: That's great, I'd be happy to set up an appointment to come view your property and give you some idea of what's it worth, and how much we might be able to list it for...
05/31/2011
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"Why, oh Why" you ask "is my house still unsold?" Well, Mr. & Mrs. Seller, there are many reasons. REASON #1You're overpriced. This one seems like it should be obvious, but apparently it's only obvious to everyone but you. Yes, the homes nearby that have sold, have sold for the same $550,000 p...
05/31/2011
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"Do you think that home prices will be back up in the spring?" That is a question that I've been asked a number of times, recently, by sellers. "Should I come on the market for now... or should I wait until Spring" (our primary market in the northern suburbs of Chicago) and hope that prices will...
05/27/2011
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Tom Arstingstall wrote a post a while back entitled "My childhood home - google style". A light bulb went off over my head, It had never even crossed my mind to look up the homes of my childhood, or that it was even a possibility. Like everyone else, I did know that Google had mapped out the e...
05/26/2011
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Jeremy Blanton posted this one on his facebook page, and I thought it was just too good, not to share with all my Active Rain buddies. If you've ever looked at the website People of Walmart, where you can see the multi-varied people who shop at walmart in all their glory, you'll love this one....
05/25/2011
Following the raving success of my BicepCurls for Realtors, here is the second in the serious.... ooops, I meant series!!(Freudian Slip there)... For Realtor bloggers, (it can be adapted for any type of blogger as well) whose fingers can easily become abused and neglected and end up cramping... ...
05/25/2011
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"Can you show me property this Saturday?" asks a regular client of mine. "Hold on, let me check my schedule... sure what time Saturday?" "Around 3:00 p.m.?" "Sure that works for me... I'll meet you at the first property at 3:00, and we'll go onward from there." That's the kind of conversation I h...
05/24/2011
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Richard Yates has inspired (challenged) me to join the video revolution and join the group vbloggers... (which I have just done)... Since, as he's pointed out, you don't really have to do 'much' to be a video blogger, (not a jab at Richard... but c'mon... a 10 second video...) I said to myself "...
05/23/2011
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If you're having an inspection, on one of your listings, the morning after a horrendous rain storm... it's nice to know you have one of these installed. And, "no", it's not just the control panel, there really is a 57-year old flood control system in this house that is maintained annually. The s...
05/23/2011
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This morning, Laurie Jarrett wrote a post entitled "What's a Rookie Agent to do?" She has many suggestions as to what a rookie agent ought to do to help jump-start their budding careers... Farming, working expireds, running the gauntlet with FSBOs, and more. She had many good suggestons, but one...
05/17/2011
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