For the last few months I been attending many trainings on Short Sales and foreclosure alternatives so I can have a better understand on the process and can better serve my clients. On those classes I always get negatives like Short sales don't work, there are no foreclosures around, etc. Cur
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09/13/2010
The Apple iPad is a great ebook reader and tool for work and play. Being able to take your ebooks and magazines everywhere is amazing. Originally I purchased the iPad to write programs that would help my real estate business and maybe to sell to make extra income. With the increase productivity
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09/12/2010
The last few weeks I went to visit 5 different real estate offices to see how the offices are run and they are like ghosttowns. Maybe one or two agents in sight and there chatting about non-work related. I asked where are the other agents? The response were from "I don't know" to "doing their o
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09/12/2010
Open House could bring in potential buyers or sellers, yet not too many top agents want to do them. Why? They would rather spend time with their family or just have a quiet weekend. Or the agent could go out to get more listings or promote the home to other people. Right now I do Open H
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09/11/2010
If you have an iPad, there is a really good chance that you have read an ebook through iBooks. iBooks is a good ebook reader and would have been great if 1) You could have multiple bookshelves for different types of books. 2) Let you open other book format besides .pdf like .cbr for comic book
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09/09/2010
Currently I am reading a great book from John Maxwell called the Maxwell Daily Reader. On one of the early pages, he describe the characteristics of a leader. The leadership proverb which goes "He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk". In order to be a successful
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09/09/2010
Education in general is important. Want to be a lawyer? Spend a few years going to law school and pass the bar exam. Want to be a doctor? Spend 8 years in medical schools and a few years doing residence work. Even after becoming a lawyer, doctor, etc., there are constant training and education.
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09/07/2010
Disasters does happen and happens when we least expect them. It could be an accidental fire that burn down a house, a major flood, or an earthquake. Many times we can try to minimize the damage by doing some preparation work. This Friday evening while enjoying playing a computer game, the c
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09/06/2010
When I first took real estate classes many years ago I was told that all agents are hunters and we eat what we kill, survival of the fittest. I couldn't believe it because agents are human too and some of the agents I knew then are the kindest people I have ever met. Once I got in that is where
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09/05/2010
Even though esignature technology is constantly getting easier and better, does it replace face to face signing? Last week I had to go to Riverside to get some documents signed by my sellers. Since they lived about 50 miles away and we have different schedules, I was able to send them the docum
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09/04/2010
