Angela Penkin's (anpenkin) Blog

Hel-lo! Don't you just love these comments on your listings? And I'm not talking about the buyer's. I'm talking about the agents showing your listings. This is not an agent bash - I think it is a result of how we now work with buyers. In the old days we'd sit over the computer and pour over the p...

Just wondering how many consumers and real estate professionals assume (ugh!) that if something is included in the listing and the brochure, that is is still included if the offer comes in under the offered list price? It seems to me that there are many people that don't understand this and are s...

So, here I sit catching up on the work of the day, hoping I really am not acting like a first time home buyer parent! But, alas, I am in Rochester NY and they are in Endicott NY and as much as I'd like to be in control, I don't know the market there. So, about 10 days ago I went on a REALTOR sear...

OK, so last weekend I had offers on 2 listings, and wrote an offer for a buyer client. This weekend, no one at the open house on Sunday and no calls in the past 10 days on a new listing at an affordable price point of $160,000. And why do some homes get lots of calls and showings but no offers an...

So I am so guilty of this - I have been GLUED to the TV every moment that I'm not with clients, even when I should be sleeping! I am of the opinion that like 9-11 and Katrina - people have been obsessed and completely absorbed by one of the most history making Presidential elections in our lifeti...

Oh how I hate to admit it, but, I am always late and have been trying for years to break the habit. It is a case of always trying to squeeze in one more thing to do before leaving for the listing, showing, dentist, doctor, football game (you get the idea) appointment. Something happened to me in ...