Well, this is a new, old one...we have finally been busy enough negotiating with buyers and sellers, obtaining new property for sale, adjusting prices for our most serious sellers, and searching inventory for real (I emphasize the word "real") buyers, that I have not had the time to blog. And that, is precisely what this blog is about. With some form of the stimulus package, days away from being passed by Congress, and the promise of Spring ahead, we are beginning to get back to normal in the residential real estate market of North Queens. Its a new normal, not the normal of 2005 to 2007, but its day to day of finding buyers for our best priced properties and selling the community and it's conveniences day in and day out. One thing I personally like about this market, is that many agents are much friendlier, they value the customer more, and are even nice to me! There are those agents that just don't get it though...they think they live in a vacuum, never returning calls, and being disrespectful to other agents, a great detriment to their clients, the seller, who often suffers from the limited access that these "listing agents" provide to their homesellers, in an effort to make more money for themselves by "double-ending" the sale. We like to be both listing and selling agent also, and in fact, we do that about 60 percent of the time, but never at the seller's expense. Let's look at the positive though, at least the market is opening up, from November and December, and as hard as it may be to get your home sold on North Queens, there are still buyers out there, and if you work with them, and have a great realtor too, you are bound to get moved. Let me know your great and awful real estate experiences. We can learn from both.
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