ARDELL's Seattle Area Real Estate Blog

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Real Estate Agent - Better Properties Seattle
Seattle Real Estate including The Eastside cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond and The Seattle Neighborhoods of Green Lake, and most points on the north side of Lake Washington.

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2008 

We deal in a living and breathing marketplace.  The day we list a property, we are going on our best guestimate of what may happen. But in the first 10 to 30 days, the market tells us what we couldn't know. "YOU CAN NEVER BE SMARTER THAN THE MARKET!" No matter how long you have been in the busine...
01/27/2008
Last week we went to the Broker's Open Houses in Bellevue. This morning I did a recap of the experience.  As always, in Janaury, many of the Open Houses were not new listings at all. They were properties put on the Open House Tour that were leftovers from last year.  As usual for January, most of...
01/20/2008
One of the agents asked for specific details on how you prepare for the Broker's Opens for tomorrow in Bellevue. Sign in to the to the mls.  Click on Locator. Click on Search.  Go down on the drop down menu, past the map and radius and standard searches, and near the bottom you will see Broker's ...
01/16/2008
Tomorrow, we will meet at our office at 12207 NE 8th Street in Bellevue at 10 a.m. All agents will arrive with their own list of all of the Broker's Opens in Bellevue West EAST of the Office toward Microsoft.  Agents should plan to see at least six properties in the two hours or so that Broker's ...
01/16/2008
As part of our preparation for the Brio Corporate Blog, I gave the agents an assignment to write about me and the Company.  I honestly expected a lot of people to talk about how tough I am on them at times, and was ready for an onslaught of venting. This paragraph from Michael Creel was amazing: ...
01/14/2008
Aren't we all just a little sick of agents talking about themselves and how blogs will make money for THEM? It ain't all about us, and if it is, we should have the good sense to know when to keep that to ourselves a little bit more. How do you use the internet to help your clients? Name 10 things...
01/13/2008
There's a lot of talk in Active Rain these days asking what will the Consumers think if they see an agent joking, an agent having a beer at a convention in NYC, an agent speaking harshly or with a word spelled incorrectly or... Truth is, the consumers get more upset when agents pretend to be perf...
01/12/2008
Today we are meeting to form teams of 4 agents to work together for the 1st Quarter of 2008. Everyone is wondering whose team they will be on, who will be on their team. Wouldn't life be simple if you just chose the person whom you might choose to represent you in the sale of your home?  Look aro...
01/12/2008
I've made a slight change in the plan.  Some mailings will have ALL four members of the team.  Change from "5 teams times 2 groups per team equals 10 mailers per team times 8 areas equals 80 mailings times number of households per week." Seems if all 4 members of the team were depicted on some of...
01/11/2008
We've been kicking around this idea and would appreciate your comments. I know sometimes it's hard to view one another as friends and associates vs. "the competition" but we're going to try. I'm thinking of a round robin kind of mailing.  We want to Conquer a given marketplace in Bellevue from th...
01/08/2008