Hi Rainers:I have a question/poll to ask of you all. How many listings a year do you average? And, how many buyers do you have in any given year on average?How much on average do you spend in advertising and marketing for your listings? (Include everything like magazines, MLS fees, open houses, e
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11/04/2007
Anyone know about the National Association of Exclusive Buyers Agents (NAEBA)? I found their website the other day (www.naeba.org) and thought them interesting. Obviously smaller than NAR, but found it curious that they are having their convention in Las Vegas the same week as the NAR convention.
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10/30/2007
Like many other parts of the country, there was lots of real estate development in the past few years in Bakersfield. Now, however, many developments have either been delayed or cancelled. Sadly, work had started on quite a few cancelled projects leaving sort of a ghost town feeling even though a
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10/30/2007
The commercial real estate market in Bakersfield I think is a bit cool. Sure there's some great new projects in the horizon. Bakersfield is getting a Bass Pro Shop in a nice, new project off of Highway 99. But, with many properties in the 5% to 6.0% cap rate range, I think there might be some ove
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10/30/2007
Finished reading a CNN article about a potential domino effect that the subprime meltdown may cause. Credit cards. Consumers have $915 Billion in credit card debt. Many paid off their credit cards with the equity in their homes using refiancing and home equity lines of credit. Now that they can't
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10/30/2007
On a previous blog I mentioned some negative experiences I had with an agent. Well, I like to turn it around and point out that I think most agents are good.In particular, I have a mentor at my office who has been in the business for 30+ years. He's not perfect. He tends to be absent minded partl
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10/29/2007
So I had this rather negative experience recently with another agent in my office. I have to preface this by saying that this agent has been moved three times prior to being moved in with me and all because the other agents she had shared offices with requested that they either be moved or she do
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10/28/2007
So today at breakfast, I decide to bring my laptop to the dining table to surf the net. Bad decision.My three year old daughter decided it would be fun to pour her entire cup of milk on my open laptop. Not the best start to the day.Well I know I'm going to Compusa or Best Buy today to get a new c
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10/28/2007
Just read on CNN that there are 2 million vacant homes for sale (equal to about the number of homes in Detroit).Quite shocking. But in context it's up 2% from last quarter and 7% from a year. So it's not as horrible as it may first sound given the high number.Personally I don't think it'll reboun
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10/26/2007
If you have a property listing, one of the first things you are going to do is advertise it--your MLS, newspapers, magazines, etc)--so that you can help your seller to sell the property. Why treat your buyers any differently? Advertise your buyer's property needs, or what we call buyer profile,
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10/26/2007
