I wonder if my plea will be heard... Back in August I had a suggestion in this blog post "I have a cure for the housing market but I need your help" which stated that every realtor and seller (including FSBOs) should immediately withdrawl their listings that would knowingly never sell. If that d
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12/16/2008
Should I list now or wait until spring ? I received a call yesterday from a consumer who said "Chris, I know it is not a great time to sell. Should I put my properties up now or wait until spring ? " . What is interesting is that I have found myself answering this question frequently and I have
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12/13/2008
Building Your Reputation As a follow up to a previous post "Are you utilizing your office website (RE/MAX.com) to generate referrals and consumer traffic ? " , we had the settlement today for a referral we received from a California agent less than 30 days ago ! Doing great work for a referral c
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12/12/2008
Utilizing Google Analytics to Assess Performance, Set Goals and Gain Clients ! Google Analytics is an amazing tool and if you have not checked it out, I would highly recommend doing so. You can sign up your website or blog to Google Analytics to find out statistics in terms of how many visitors
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12/10/2008
Wedding Aniversary in Baltimore This past weekend Stephanie and I took a break from our busy schedule to celebrate our wedding anniversary !! We had a wonderful stay at the Pier 5 hotel at Balitmore's Inner Harbor. We also mixed in a little business as we had a power meeting with our marketing
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12/09/2008
The Pulse of the Real Estate Market I have always been a little bit anti-media, and even more so during the last year with all the doom and gloom of the "national" real estate market never taking into account local markets. A featured post "Can we gag the Media ? Or Hang the DJ ? " expressed th
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12/05/2008
5 Reasons for Buyers to Get off the Fence ! In the Philadelphia real estate market, I am seeing some substantial opportunity for buyers to procure great deals as well as have teriffic opportunity before them now. Thus, if you are one of those "on the fence" buyers, it is time to cross over and a
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12/03/2008