A PROVOCATIVE POST with many angles. NO. I do not want a "RELATIONSHIP" with business clients. I believe that there is a reason most states require disclosure of "relationships" in MLS listings. Is the seller your mother, aunt, son, neice, etc., you must isclose that fact because you have a "
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12/14/2009
WHEN IS A BUYER'S AGENT REALLY A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING?? When they admit in the first sentence of their post that "I've always preferred to work with sellers versus buyers". Read the post by Charita Cadenhead and, if you can identify with the premise of her post that a buyer who negotiate
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12/13/2009
CASH FOR CAULKING??? What happened to "caulk your windows and doors and you'll reduce you heating bills significantly"?? Why does a home owner have to be bribed to maintain their home? What about the home owner that can't make an investment sufficiently significant to qualify. Perhaps they don'
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12/13/2009
LISTEN UP HOME BUYERS. LISTEN UP LOAN OFFICERS WHO DON'T READ THE FANNIE MAE MORTGAGEE LETTERS. FANNIE MAE ALERT!!! "I would STRONGLY recommend that if you have run a Borrowers file through DU before today, and received an Approved/Eligible, but the Borrower has not gone under contract yet, that
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12/12/2009
AS DOROTHY SAID, "There's no place like Home". I read with interest the post by Christopher and Stephanie Somers about receiving an unsolicited phone call (a cold one no doubt), from a company, ??AgentAdvantage?? or something or other. The caller was obnoxious, which is a pattern with that compa
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12/11/2009
THERE HAS NOT BEEN, IS NOT NOW AND WILL NOT LIKELY BE, ANY RELIEF FOR THE 20,000,000 AMERICAN HOME OWNERS WHO ARE CAPTIVES OF NEGATIVE EQUITY. Is the relief really only foreclosure and becoming tenants. Are we to become a nation of tenants???? Good grief. I cannot believe what I'm reading from t
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12/11/2009
ALAN MAY relates his recent acceptance of a referral with a 25% referral fee attached simply for 1. Being a male. 2. Being in the office to accept the lead. Good for Alan for being "at the ready" to help the gentleman who preferred to work with a male rather than the female who answered the pho
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12/10/2009
WHY BUYERS' AGENT CANNOT IGNORE THE "CO-BROKE" FEE and WHY LISTING AGENTS SHOULD NOT EXPECT THEM TO. Andrea Mills writes that Buyer's Agents should ignore the co-broke fee offered in the MLS. Just what does that mean to the Buyer's Agent and their Broker and just what does that mean to the home
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12/09/2009
A FORMULA FOR DISASTER. . . IGNORE THE CO-BROKE FEE! Andrea Mills tries to persuade consumers, and indirectly a few buyers' agents that the "co-broker" fee offered in the MLS is not important and should be ignored by agents and consumers. WHAT NONSENSE is this?? OR, it is a cleverly disguised p
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12/09/2009
WHEN THE SOLUTION MAY BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM, FOLKS WILL SIMPLY TUNE OUT. OR, who reads the instructions to putting the crib together??? BLOGGING IS SO EASY, EVEN A CHILD CAN DO IT??? That's not what I hear. What I hear is - - - - "Technology is complicated." "I'm not a good writer." "My re
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12/07/2009
