realtor: Lions, and tigers, and questions OH MY!!! - 07/03/09 07:43 AM
 
Buying a home, especially your first home can be a crazy thing. You're like a fish out of water. You turn to real estate professionals to guide you through your process and lead you to the promise land safely with no scars and a smile on your face. Your family and friends get wind of what you're doing and you've got information coming from all angles and you really don't know who to turn to for answers. What do you do?
Well, you ask somebody. I will tell you that when you're buying a home, the only people from … (0 comments)

realtor: Why in the H.E. Double Hockey Sticks Didn't Mine Sell? - 10/01/07 02:42 AM
Why didn't your property sell Mr./Ms. seller? Is that what you ask or what you want to know? Well I'll tell ya, it's one of two sub-reasons which causes one big reason to be neglected.... PRICE! Either your agent didn't bother to tell you that you were priced too high or he/she told you and you didn't listen.
I was researching my farm area last week and found 47 expired listings in the 150k-200k range. Theeeen, I researched the sold and pending listings, here's what I found.
In one, just one zip code where these expireds resided, Philadephia 19111, there were 161 properties … (3 comments)

realtor: wouldn't it be more profitable to refer? - 05/24/07 02:39 AM
everyday i check the expired listings and i wonder....WHY AREN'T AGENTS JUST REFERRING!!! AGENT OUTSOURCING is what i call it. if i have a client that is not selling for whatever reason be it price, my inventory is so big that i can't give the appropriate attention needed to get listing sold...whatever the case may be, wouldn't it be more profitable for me to have a network of other agents to just refer the work to instead of loosing a client? isn't it better to get the referral commission then get none? i'm not understanding. maybe i'm just fairly new and … (3 comments)