Shawn Murray's (irishman) Blog

I keep hearing that homes are just not selling in this market.  Now this confuses me.  The reason why is I just listed a home and it sold in one day to the first buyer who saw the home. The reason that it sold was because the seller actually listened to the advice I gave her.  She did everything ...

Who said that homes are not selling.  I just listed a home yesterday and I have an offer on the table.  How did I do this.  Well, after I returned to my office the first thing I did was to tell everyone in my office of my new listing.  I had a couple of agent jump all over it.  The first one said...

My client is really getting frustrated with the process of getting a home inspection contingency removed from the contract.  Thisbuyer's agent is truly real piece of work.  She has no concept of what 5 business days mean.  I have explained to her what the addendum states which is 5 business days ...

I am currently working on a deal for a client.  We have come to the point that everyone is in agreement on the contract and have removed all contingencies from the purchase agreement.  So we are all good to go, right?  Wrong, now the buyer is asking that we must include some of the furniture with...

I am wondering if any of you have ever experienced an inspector who reported that a slope of a gutter was incorrect?  Right now my client is negotiating on repair work.  On of the items in the report said that the slope of the gutter was off.  Now I have been in the business for a while and I hav...

Yes Spring is here and I can not wait for all this rain to stop.  Yes we need it for all the flowers and grass but I just hate to mow my lawn.  No I am not one of those neighbors who only mow once a month.  I take good care of the lawn so that my next door neighbor's lawn looks as well as mine.  ...

I am curretly filling out paper work for a home I just put onto the market for a client of mine.  It just amazes me as to how much paper work we must do in order to satify the relocation company.  I understand that they want all the important information on the Broker market analysis but why not ...

I just wanted to share with you about a relocation company (Cartus) that is charging me 40% referral fee.  Now I know that the standard between us RE/MAX agents is around 25%.  I was shocked when the representative from the relocation company told me it was a 40% if you were not a member and 37.5...

Yes, this is a little late but better late than never.  To all of those agents out there doing an open house on mother's day.  What were you thinking?  I know that we all must do our best to serve our clients needs, but you have to put family first.  I was asked by a couple of my clients what tim...

Since Icame over to RE/MAX "The Producers" I have had many of my fellow friends and agents ask me why I made the move.  All I can tell you is that the main reason was the amount of education that RE/MAX provides me.  My other company who I will not mention only gave as little as possible.  Sure I...