Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know that Thanksgiving is the most celebrated holiday in the United States? It crosses all cultural lines and over 90% of the population observes it. For us foreigners, inviting people over and eating a lot of food is right up our alley. :) My son recently started si
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11/27/2008
In my previous post I mentioned the traits of a top agent. While I am certainly not an expert at all of these traits, I do believe that I have some good advice for those seeking to improve. Today I will discuss attention to detail. Attention to detail is an extremely important trait of top agen
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11/26/2008
Over time, I have observed many of the top agents at my office and at others. While in a recent seminar I was rather disappointed with their techniques today, I have observed what traits they have with the goal of determining what traits make up a top agent. Really, what places an agent at the t
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11/25/2008
Last week, I paid to attend a presentation by several of the top agents in the area. These agents came from several different agencies (though I was proud that three were from my office!) and were among the top salespeople in the nation. I went to the meeting hoping to hear some great secrets o
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11/24/2008
I am not an expert, but I thought I would share this with you. As I have dealt with this type of property from the listing agent's point of view, I thought it would be helpful to point out common mistakes and suggest some strategies for those agents writing up contracts. The most important thing
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11/21/2008
Recently I listed a bank owned property and was surprised to see that not only do the majority of consumers not know what a bank owned property is, but also the majority of real estate agents. First, a bank owned property is not a property in foreclosure. This cannot be more strongly stated. Ba
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11/20/2008
A few days ago I was chatting with a friend I hadn't seen for some time. I could tell he was trying to gauge how successful I am and the following question was no big surprise. So how many listings do you have now? My response was quick. I don't have many listings at the same time. I sell my li
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11/19/2008
A few years ago my husband and I went to Dubai for our fifth wedding anniversary. I usually let him do the planning for these types of vacations and he mentioned that he had something special planned for me when we get there. It wasn't hard to dig it out of him - he had booked us for two nights
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11/18/2008
As my recent blog posts have brought my husband to reminisce about his vacation a bit more, I asked him again about all of the rain there. It must have been awful getting rained on that hard, I mentioned. He thought about it a bit and then paused. Yeah. The rain was pretty bad and did got rather
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11/17/2008
A number of times people have asked me how I come up with an idea for a new blog every day. I thought I would share with you some ideas that have worked for me. Write your blogs ahead of time. I write most of my blogs during the weekend when I have a bit more time, then post one each day. Brain
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11/14/2008
