I have a soft spot for FSBO's. Before I was selling real estate, and I was simply appraising it, my wife and I sold our very first home all by ourselves in West Roxbury, MA. The buyer who ended up purchasing the home told us she had an agent representing her. But considering she found out about
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08/28/2008
Last night (this morning) at 1:44am I got an e-mail from the fine folks at Twitter, telling me that they had manually reset my password and I could now log back into my account. My last previous tweet was July 24th, just over one full week ago. On July 24th my account was mysteriously deleted wi
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08/01/2008
I was involved in an intereting thread over on Trulia Voices last week concerning FSBOs. I was the first to respond (at the bottom), but the discussion got very lively soon there after. The basis of the thread turned out to be, "Do agents avoid showing their buyer clients FSBOs?" Two very differ
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07/27/2008
Mike's interview on Real Estate Radio USA (7/24/08) Hallmark Sotheby's International Realty website Today marked the end of my first week at Hallmark Sotheby's International Realty in Hopkinton, MA. It's been a fantastic experience being part of an already well-establish brand in the area and
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07/25/2008
I recently got a promotion that started on Twitter. Most of you who know me, know I am still fairly new on the sales side of the business (my background is in real estate appraisal). In fact, on June 4th, 2008 I wasn't even one full year into the business when an anonymous tweet came through. I
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07/22/2008
News sweeping through Amsterdam, and all of the Netherlands for that matter, is that the famous American Realtor, Mike Lefebvre aka The "Uncommon Agent" is kicking butt and taking names! (not literal translation, but I like it). Ran this post through the translator on my mac's dashboard and it
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07/22/2008
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have just become affiliated with Hallmark Sotheby's International Realty in Hopkinton, MA. I struggled with the decision a bit early on, being still relatively new in the business (just over one year), but it was too hard for me to deny my gut feeling
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07/21/2008
When I signed up with my broker just about one year ago, it was mandatory to enroll in Brian Bufinni’s “100 Days to Greatness” training. First day on the job, I was throwing down an extra $400-something in the hopes of obtaining “greatness” in 3 months or so. Not wanting to cause trouble my firs
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07/21/2008
OK, so this is hardly the most original idea for a blog post (closer to the least original probably) and tons of people have done it better and earlier, but I just had to share this photo I came across while looking for properties for my buyers. Our local MLS lets you post up to 30 photos per pr
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07/18/2008
Today I have been humbled by the positive response I've gotten throughout the real estate blogosphere from a handful of well-respected colleagues who seem to appreciate the "uncommon" ways I'm trying to market myself as well as my properties. I guess, as a newer agent, I benefit from never reall
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07/15/2008
