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Rookie in Shock!

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Real Estate Agent with Pine Knoll Shores Realty NCRE# 242843

We recently had the pleasure of adding two new REALTORS to our team here at Pine Knoll Shores Realty.  In preparation, we needed to clean house to make room.  My goodness, we accumulate a lot of junk over the years!!!  I found a photo box full of old photos and found several sets of duplicate photos.

 

Remember, I have only been in the real estate busines since 2006!  My broker in charge told me that back in the day, they made several copies of each photo for marketing.  They would glue the photos on the front of each Property Feature Sheet (as we call them), and place them in the boxes at each property. I was in shock!  It is hard for me to imaging the time and money that went into each listing back before the internet became so popular.

Man, we really have it easy these days when it comes to marketing.

Comments(12)

Charlie Ragonesi
AllMountainRealty.com - Big Canoe, GA
Homes - Big Canoe, Jasper, North Georgia Pros

Fun post and congrats to you for still being in the business in 2009 having started in 06  There is something to say for the new way we market even though we complainabout the Net often

May 25, 2009 11:42 PM
Marian Goetzinger
Pine Knoll Shores Realty 252-422-9000 - Pine Knoll Shores, NC
Crystal Coast Real Estate NC

Hey,  I will not tell you how old I am but when I started we still used the MLS book, the big old tax books and I bought my first mobile phone!  Times sure change.

May 25, 2009 11:46 PM
Fernando Herboso - Associate Broker MD, & VA
Maxus Realty Group of Samson Properties - Clarksburg, MD
301-246-0001 Serving Maryland, DC and Northern VA

I love the Internet. . .I taught a class one day about using the Internet to generate leads and one Realtor that has been in the business for years  and barely accepted email as a new tool. .was amazed at the number of actions I could perform in  10 minutes. . .she was awed

May 25, 2009 11:55 PM
Jackie - computer-training-atlanta.com
770.498.7333 - Atlanta, GA
Learn to leverage technology to get more done.

Congrats on the growing team!

One of my first "real jobs" was as a switchboard operator / admin assistant back in the 80's. I still have nightmares about using carbon copy forms to type thiings in triplicate. Your post makes me smile.

May 26, 2009 12:01 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

The old days had some good points. One or two page contracts worked as well as the 50 page agreements we now use. Using carbon paper for copies was a bit messy.

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May 26, 2009 12:13 AM
Michael Setunsky
Woodbridge, VA
Your Commercial Real Estate Link to Northern VA

Amy, digital cameras, copy machines, computers, MS Publisher, etc. make life a whole lot easier today than a few years ago. I wonder what we will be saying ten years from now about today's technology.

May 26, 2009 12:27 AM
Linda Greco Rich, ABR, SRES
Exit Preferred Realty - Bel Air, MD
Harford County Specialist

I can't imagine how much time that took! I do wish the general public did not have access to sites to look at houses - but that is the only change I would make.

May 26, 2009 12:28 AM
Harry F. D'Elia III
WEDO Real Estate and Beyond, LLC - Phoenix, AZ
Investor , Mentor, GRI, Radio, CIPS, REOs, ABR


Thanks for sharing. It is nice to go back and appreciate how good we have it right now. Also, appreciate the older people and their experience. They still have some life in them.

May 26, 2009 12:36 AM
Craig Rutman
Helping people in transition - Cary, NC
Raleigh, Cary, Apex area Realtor

Ahhh, the internet! It's made our avenues for marketing a whole lot easier...and we're not talking a long time ago either!

May 26, 2009 01:06 AM
Coleen DeGroff
Coldwell Banker M.M. Parrish Realtors - Gainesville, FL
Haile Plantation Real Estate - Gainesville FL

Amazing how much has changed in the industry just in the span of a few years.....makes me wonder what the business will look like 2 years from now.

May 26, 2009 03:15 AM
Tom Boos
Sine & Monaghan Realtors, Real Living - Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Providing the very best of service to Sellers and

I remember those days well.  Thank God they're behind us.

May 26, 2009 03:29 AM
Amy Hahn
Pine Knoll Shores Realty - Morehead City, NC
Realtor/Broker - Crystal Coast, NC

Thanks for all your comments.  We should all be counting our blessings everyday, one of those blessings being how easy marketing is with the internet and great sites like ActiveRain.

May 26, 2009 07:31 AM