My wife and I have been a member for 2 weeks and love it !!!! I have logged on and read and posted comments pretty much each morning and night when I have a moment. I also have my blog up and running. Have had our website people tweek the photo resolution (at first I used a bad picture so it wa
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07/13/2008
How many agents do a flat fee for a listing ? We received a listing lead from our website. The owner lives in a different county but owns a really nice condo in one of the neighborhoods (Northern Liberties) that my wife and I specialize in. She did some research in our neighborhood and found us
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07/12/2008
I have seen a lot of posts recently about short sales and a lot of training courses being offered on them as well. My wife and I have successfully done a few short sales on the listing side and our clients were very happy that we were able to find a solution to help them get out of their situatio
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07/12/2008
One of my pet peeves is the glut of inventory on the market with sooo many overpriced listings, typically a combination of sellers with unrealistic expectations or lack of motivation in addition to agents overpromising and undelivering. I have always had a tug of war when I take a listing that is
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07/11/2008
I have read numerous posts from other real estate professionals in other cities talking about seeing signs of the market bottoming, of the market stabilizing, of the market picking up... feeling the buzz and many other positive signs. I agree. I see it here in Philadelphia as my wife and I are
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07/10/2008
River Church Condominium in Old City - Only 2 Units Remaining, Great views ! 10 year tax abatement ! Great price per sq ft ! Unit 505 $374,900 996 sq ft Unit 502 $369,900 1100 sq ft UPDATE: Both units sold !!!!!!! This is one of the premier spots of Old City. The condos are elegant and
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07/10/2008
We had a settlement today for a deal that the seller did not want to accept, not due to the price, but because of a lower down payment, sellers assist and lower escrow amount. I had to STRONGLY RECOMMEND that the deal be accepted to both the seller and the seller's attorney and even sign a docume
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07/08/2008
Today my wife Stephanie and I took a walk over the Ben Franklin Bridge. The Ben Franklin bridge connects Philadelphia (Old City) and New Jersey (Camden). It is a beautiful structure. This is our second walk over the Bridge in the last couple of weeks. What is weird is that as I have aged, I
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07/06/2008
Another Philadelphia Success Story - Philadelphia Real Estate We picked up a buyer lead recently from one of our listings in Northern Liberties - a very nice young couple with a little baby who had worked with a realtor or two prior to us - had submitted on offer or two on a property - but did no
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07/06/2008
Yesterday, on July 4th, I received an offer on one of my listings (which is always a good thing ! ). One of the forms included a rebate to the buyer from the buyers agent commission. In this case, since the purchase price is over $100,000, it would be 20 percent of the buyers agent commission.
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07/05/2008
