Bob Pavey's (paveygroup) Blog

My assistant has been with me over two years. She speaks spanish and english and has been an asset to our operation. She recently told me she wanted to get a Real Estate license. I told her that if she took the course and passed I would pay. She has helped some of our buyers looking through the M...

What is amazing to me is how the average agent does not understand how they are paid. I recently had a buyers agent leave me do to the fack she did not understand commissions. She came from a conventional broker I won't mention names. She was paid 50% commission less 6% off the top. She came to m...

These days in Real Estate take a lot of great ideas to make you successful. I for many years drove a PT Cruiser that was done up with RE/MAX Logo's and my Groups name (The PaveyGroup) phone numbers, websites and more. I rode around in this thing for four years. It has diffinitely got my name arou...

In todays market a lot of us are providing a higher level of service. I have always made follow up calls to agents for feedbacks on my listings. I follow up (my assistant) with sellers to give them updates and feedback on a weekly basis. It makes price reductions so much easier.I have found (also...

There are more and more condo conversions on the market today. I feel that these properties when built are built with less sound proffing in the walls. The are cheaper and look more like rentals than condo'sI have herd over and over again that a lot of these projects are converting back to rental...

In two weeks I will be heading down to Key West on the Peterson's Harley Davidson's Poker run. This has been put on for the last 33 years this will make 34. The monies use to go to MDA but in recent years has been going to Diabetis research. It is of course a unbelievable great time and the ride ...

Every wonder why the market changed so fast? I know why in South Florida we had a storm called Whilma. After that our market started to rebound when our local press (The Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel) wrote articles that the buble was going to burst in the real estate market. Interest rates were on ...

I have used many Title companies over the years. To date I have had nothing but problems. Rude people, not trained people, eagar to get you off the phone but not eager to do the job. I have a list of bad Title companies and if a client offers on one of my listings and is thinking of using one of ...

In todays market with so many properties and so few Buyers I have a question? Why is it so hard to make appointments to see properties?We all are trying to make business happen but there is a lot of agents who can't be bothered to answer calls for showings. It can take 24 hours for an agent to ca...