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2014
With the first week or so of 2014 now behind us, how are you feeling about 2014? If you are like most real estate agents (and most people), you get supercharged in the later part of the previous year to make the New Year the best that it can be. You plan your new diet; you join a new gym. You cr...
01/07/2014
Complication Represents Opportunity I saw this quote in a novel called Netherland. I won’t bore you with the details of the book (although it is a good one if you like to read fiction), but I found this comment made by one of the characters so very interesting: “Complication represents opportunit...
01/06/2014
What Is the Pay What You Want Concept? I’m not sure if you have heard about the ‘pay what you want’ concept that has been piloted at various eateries around the nation. Basically, the concept is this: you pay what you believe the food is worth. At one Panera Bakery in St. Louis where they tried o...
01/05/2014
Happy New Year! Each and every week, there are things going on that impact housing news and the real estate market. Sometimes there are big changes to federal and state policies that impact the distressed property world. Other weeks, there is business news and distressed property news about gover...
01/04/2014
Now that 2014 has arrived, lots of agents are talking about goal setting. How many transactions will you close? How much money will you earn? How much would you like to earn? How many prospects do you need to call or speak with in order to meet your income goals? There is a lot that goes into th...
01/03/2014
Just read Lynn Friedman’s post about jumpstarting your blog for 2014, and I am all in for this challenge. I’m not sure that I’ve entirely recuperated from the New Year’s activities, but I am eager to get back into my regular routine for 2014. The holidays always throws such a curve ball into the ...
01/02/2014
One of my very good friends, who was an extremely busy short sale listing agent at the height of the recession, was stewing because his short sale was taking what he felt to be an inordinate amount of time. He has closed lots of short sales, and his theory was that this particular deal shouldn’t ...
01/01/2014
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Melissa Zavala
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