IKEA Store In Denver to Open July 2011 Originally scheduled to open in the Fall of 2011, Sweden's IKEA Store, the self-proclaimed "world's leading home furnishing retailer," is now planning the Grand Opening of their 38th US store on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 9:00 AM. Their first store in Colo
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04/29/2011
. . . so please do not leave ANY comments here about set commissions. We all know that there is no 'SET' commission, and that they are always negotiable. Having said that, let me share an example (I'm sure many of you have heard this before) of how I handle it when people ask me if I will negot
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04/28/2011
It has been a while since working on a deal has been this much fun. I closed on a property last week, and from start to finish it was . . . well, fun. When I got the initial call, Mr. Prospective Buyer said, "We have worked with several other Realtors, we haven't liked any of them. We found yo
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04/27/2011
FSBO: Is it wise?When someone decides to sell their home without the services of a Realtor, they are commonly called a FSBO (For Sale by Owner), but I prefer to call them Unrepresented Sellers. When I first started in real estate in the early 90s, I had a mentor who told me that 97% of FSBOs wou
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04/25/2011
There’s not much that my husband can’t fix. We owned quite a few Colorado College rentals, so when the dishwasher was misbehaving at one of them, it was not a problem for him to go and take care of it. A few days later, he was called back for the same difficulty, so he tried a different repair
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04/24/2011
How many times do we talk to people and they tell us that they either 'have never gotten into blogging,' or that 'they don't have time to blog,' or even that 'the thought of blogging is scary'? I believe I must have been living under a rock for most of my adult life, and have no idea why I didn'
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04/23/2011
Previewing Houses There are so many aspects to being a professional Realtor. There are times when there are not enough hours in a day, and there are times when you have time to catch up on all of the things that you have been wanting to do. There are not many weeks when there will not be one or
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04/23/2011
Recently I got a lot of comments on a post about homeowners following prospective Buyers around to make sure that people saw all of the updates that had been made in their home. The overwhelming conclusion was that people are emotionally attached to their homes and want to try to make others att
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04/22/2011
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Seller:I am so happy your cousin John is an electrician and put in your new light fixture that you went all the way to Chicago to purchase. Yes, that is a very nice color of peach you painted the walls in the little powder room on the main floor. The brown carpet over the hardwo
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04/19/2011
There are many dangers in listing your home For Sale by Owner (commonly known as a FSBO). It’s not because I have been in the real estate business for almost two decades that I very much dislike the idea of people selling their homes as Unrepresented Sellers. There are a dozen reasons that immed
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04/19/2011
