best practices: Does practice really make perfect? - 02/10/18 01:14 PM
My Donald has a saying about this and it's "Perfect practice makes perfect"
But what happens if you practice wrong?
 "Practice makes perfect" can be an accurate phrase because the more you do something, you build up that procedural memory and your brain can quickly instruct your muscles to carry it out. That muscle memory doesn't judge whether you're doing good or bad, however, and so if you practice a song poorly for hours on end you're going to be really good at making the same mistakes over and over again.- a quote from How Muscle Memory works and how it affects your Success.
What … (24 comments)

best practices: Hearing vs. Listening - 01/06/18 02:23 PM
How often have you been talking to someone and realized they aren't listening to you? When I got my instructors license for real estate 5 years ago I came to realize that a lot of people hear you talking, but don't listen to what you are saying.  As an instructor I had to overcome people hearing, but not listening and retaining.   The numbers below shows the % of retention.
In order to do this I created class room techniques that have my students participate and write down what they just learned.  They had much better retention rates for things they say and write. 
This … (27 comments)

best practices: Automation has a disadvantage - 05/16/17 03:42 PM
I had a lot of catching up to do today.  And emails were one thing I was dreadfully behind in going through.  I had tried to scan for very important and urgent messages to forward those to the associate broker in my office handling things while I was busy with wedding things, but there were hundreds more to sort through.
Something that caught my eye was a twitter update email.  You know when you have a twitter account it tells you "this person you follow tweeted this and this person you follow tweeted that".  And one of the "that" tweets nearly made … (25 comments)

best practices: Ask an Ambassador: what about those on line reviews? - 01/13/17 09:09 AM
Thankfully we're given the option here on ActiveRain to post testimonials. So when our clients send us a note card or leave a nice review on line we can place it here ourselves and have total control of what is on our profile. On Facebook business pages we can have reviews on or off, but what about those other places, Trulia, Zillow, and Yelp?  We have MUCH less control.  
With Zillow I am aware that you get a inquiry phone call, but that person is not actually ever your client then generally speaking Zillow will take down a review. When you leave a review … (43 comments)

best practices: Where do you need to improve? I just asked myself this - 12/03/16 12:19 PM
I just two full days in CE classes for my instructor license. The purpose of those classes were to help me become a better teacher. But in sitting there watching their styles of teaching and examples of their styles by snippets from their actual classes I found myself not only learning to be a better teacher, but soaking up tidbits that can help in other areas too. 
So today I am sitting here making myself ask for client reviews.  I had a really awesome seller offer to write one this week and I pointed her to where I wanted her to put it … (34 comments)

best practices: How to handle a bad review from a total stranger - 04/26/16 01:55 PM
Has it happened to you yet?  Did someone on yelp, zillow or Facebook write a review saying you suck? I am fortunate that while I can't say I have all "5 star" reviews I don't have a random stranger saying really dreadful things about me personally or my service.
It has happened to a number of my friends and I guess it's really just a matter of time until it happens to any of us. And of course there is always the possibility of a client actually having a bad experience and thinking that somehow their agent, their lender, their inspector or … (31 comments)

best practices: When is the transaction closed? And why you can't have the keys. - 04/11/16 01:40 PM
In Georgia we are an attorney state and most of the time buyers and sellers sit down across a table with said attorney at the head and us agents crammed in the corner and documents are signed and loans are funded and the keys are slid across the table. Of course, there are exceptions.
Foreclosures are an exception for example.  Sellers aren't at the closing table and require 48 or 72 hours to review documents before signing most of the time.  Today we had one of those closings.  I cannot be sure when the attorney sent the documents to the seller, but … (17 comments)

best practices: Is "my way or the highway" best for our clients? - 01/11/16 12:04 AM
As a self admitted control freak I must say, there are times that I cringe at the way other agents do things, present things, don't do things etc. But in the end, the fact remains it's my clients decision that really matters.
For example:
You get an offer on the wrong form say, it's land and the form you get is residential or if it's new construction and they failed to use the form that is new construction specific?  Do you send the offer back and tell they agent to "put this on the right form".  In Georgia, that would illegal.  Any SIGNED … (85 comments)

best practices: No, you're not getting the combination code either - 12/29/15 12:33 PM
We get the question from time to time when savvy buyers are aware that foreclosure agents sometimes use combination lockboxes for foreclosure listings, "What is the lockbox code?"  Sometimes lenders require them with certain codes.  Generally speaking we also include a lockbox from our MLS that requires
 the electronic supra key we use.  The supra lockbox is on the front door for area MLS agents to have access to the property and we do not publish or give the combination to anyone other than the bank we have the property listed for.
Buyers are sometimes upset that we don't give them the code.  Recently … (18 comments)

best practices: Wednesday, no time for my head to be in the clouds - 10/14/15 02:57 PM

I'm having one of those "life experiences" where there are lessons to be learned. Now I don't mind a lesson here or there, but this is getting ridiculous. I'm ready to write a post about what I learned. But I don't blog about active deals. So you'll have to wait to learn about my new lessons until the deals are done. We had a closing today that has a blog post in it too. 
Do you blog about pending transactions?
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best practices: Should an agent bash a vendor/competitor on the Internet? - 02/01/15 11:34 PM
I am not talking about just blogs here, but even in a group, even a closed group on the Internet and bashing a vendor is in my opinion (yes this is my blog, so I'm giving MY opinion) is stupid.  That's right, I said it, STUPID.  
I have a list of... "they will never get a referral"  I have it sorted by city and sub sorted in alphabetical order.  And it's a pretty long list.  When people engage in stupid discussions on line and I see it (don't get involved self, don't do it) names get added to the list.
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Tammy Lankford,, Broker  GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville (Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668)

Tammy Lankford,

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Eatonton, GA

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Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668

Address: Tammy@lake-sinclair.com, 126 PEA RIDGE ROAD, Eatonton, GA, 31024

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