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Tuesday Tour Day

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty - East Bay

It's another beautiful day in real estate!  Tuesdays are tour days.  We spend a majority of the day out in the field looking at an assortment of available properties.  All of the homes we visited today showed beautifully.  There was a beautiful rancher in Clayton with lots of living space, and playing space!  Foyer to living room to formal dining, family room to informal dining, three car garage, swimming pool with views, this 4 bedroom 2 bath home has it all!  I would say the best buy was a 3 bedroom 2 bath home in Pleasant Hill.  Built in the 1980's it's an easier home to maintain in a great area of Pleasant Hill.  We also saw a newer custom home in Lafayette price over $2M that was truly impressive with the fresh and cutting edge design.  The master bath was vibrant red and the master bedroom had shiny silver flooring.  There wasn't a single square foot of carpet in the entire home, not even a throw rug.

It's important for Realtors to network with each other.  Many people would think on the surface we are each other's competition.  It's precisely the opposite!  We are each other's sales force.  Our best and most effective form of marketing is the networking we do with each other.  When we have a listing another agent will bring us a buyer and vice versa.  Realtors work with qualified buyers and they know what those buyers can afford, so when they show up to your listing that's a hot buyer for your property!  Anyone can walk through an open house.  Most are just looking or in a different price range than the home they wander through.

There's a lot of comradery among the Realtors that attend the CCRIM (Contra Costa Realtors In Motion) marketing meeting and caravan tour.  We share clients' wants and needs to match our buyers to sellers and sellers to buyers.  We talk about the market and what we are experiencing while we're helping our clients.  Today the consensus was that the low end of the market is hot!  We're experiencing multiple offers on lower priced properties.  I know the last few offers we've put in for our buyers have been multiple offer situations.

Tuesdays are always an adventure!  It really is just pure fun for me to go out looking at property and talking shop with the other agents.  It really is a great day in real estate!

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Jese Gonzalez
The Real Estate Power Houses - El Paso, TX
The Real Estate Matchmaker

I would like to personally welcome you to the ActiveRain community!  This community has a wonderful atmosphere and you will find lots of helpful friendly people and useful information.  I just recently joine myself and I'm already loving this place! I often find something new and interesting when I read the new blogs

 

Please tell me a little about your business and please share with me any ideas I can use.  Active Rain is an excellent networking forum with a variety of interesting characters.  Expect to learn a lot and be entertained if you have an open mind.  The opportunities to learn, earn and network are absolutely incredible here on Activerain.

 

Welcome to the RAIN I look forward to reading your blogs!

Jul 02, 2008 12:28 AM
Stefan Geyer
SOA Realty - Aurora, CO

I agree, agents/Realtors should network more...for the purpose of learning and assiting each other towards becoming better at our job.  Active Rain is the best forum for achieving this.  Welcome!

Jul 02, 2008 11:38 AM
Bill Kennedy
Keller Williams Greenville Upstate - Greenville, SC
Homes For Sale Greenville SC

Welcome to Active Rain! This is an awesome place to learn as well as share.  Check out some blogs, join some groups, and enjoy, but be careful... it's addictive!

I look forward to reading some more of your future posts!

Jul 02, 2008 01:39 PM
Ted Mackel
Keller Williams Realty Simi Valley - Simi Valley, CA
Simi Valley Real Estate Agent

Welcome to ActiveRain. Congratulations on your first post. Get around and check out the community, you'll quickly figure out how to supercharge your blogging skills.

 Read this blog post: http://www.activerain.com/blogsview/535552/Three-Mistakes-Newbies-to

Jul 03, 2008 03:35 AM
Crystal Corr
Keller Williams Greenville Central - Simpsonville, SC

Welcome to Active Rain. I hope you will enjoy it and learn from it as much as I do! Happy Blogging.

Jul 03, 2008 08:31 AM
Keith Elliott Jr
KEIRE Realty Group - Manassas, VA
Principal Broker/Owner

Hello Maile,

Welcome to Active Rain and congrats on your first post! The opportunities to learn and network are incredible here. Best of luck to ya!

-Keith

Jul 04, 2008 07:19 AM
P G
Charlottesville Solutions - Charlottesville, VA

I see that you are new to Active Rain and I just wanted to welcome you. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do and that you find it a great resource.

Jul 08, 2008 01:12 AM
Johnny Huang
Pleasant Hill, CA
Insurance and Real Estate Broker

Welcome to AR, have fun, enjoy the ride and don't forget to comment on other blogs!

Jul 16, 2008 03:53 PM