Charlotte Property Management Monthly

"My Broker-In-Charge highly recommends we stay away from rent-to-own transactions.  They just aren't safe."  (Traditional Realtor) "You can fool some of the people, some of the time.  But you can't fool all the people, all the time."  (Bob Marley) Big real estate firms used to make a lot of mone...

"Lease options might be the worst idea ever.  Who would ever be a party to one?  I tried one once and it was a complete disaster!  I mean, I'm not a lawyer- there's just so much that can go wrong; I don't have firsthand knowledge of this mind you, but I've heard lots and lots of stories."  (Trad...

"I will get the lowest price per square foot for my new office lease."  (Charlotte Business Owner)   "I will not drop my initial offer for price per square foot for the new lease.  It's not worth it and I really don't like this guy anyway."  (Charlotte Commercial Landlord)   "I will maximize thi...

"They wouldn't come down in price.  I said, ‘Sir, excuse me, sir, do you want to know how many other houses my client can buy?'  We couldn't bridge a gulf of $2K and the deal fell through.  Their loss!"  (Indignant Charlotte Realtor)   "Why ask why?  Try Bud Dry."  (Old Anheuser-Busch slogan)   ...

"I'm going to tell my clients to start buying real estate once things stabilize.  It's still too dangerous."  (Charlotte Investment Realtor)   "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."  (Jonathan Swift from Thoug...

"2010 home sales will pick up!  It's the last chance for Obama money!"  (Optimistic Charlotte Realtor)   "The world is ruled by facts.  People are ruled by ideas."  (Anonymous)   It might be too late to still be giving out 2009 "Best of" and "Worst of" awards, but please humor me.  "Can't Believ...

"I would never take advantage of a person like that, this whole rent-to-own thing.  Taking a non-refundable, upfront option fee of thousands of dollars from them?  Like my Broker-in-Charge said, it's almost criminal!"  (Concerned Charlotte Realtor)   "Are you crazy?"  (Keanu Reeves) "No, poor pe...

  "The economy will be back and things will be back to normal."  (Calm Charlotte Realtor)   Only the Paranoid Survive (Best-selling book by former Intel CEO, Andrew Grove)   "Financial Crisis Stalled too many customers CEO no more" (Haiku twitter message posted by just fired CEO of Sun Microsyste...

"I can't do lease options.  They are way too risky!"  (Concerned Charlotte Realtor) "That's why it's a short cut. If it was easy, it would just be the way."  (Paulo Costanzo in Road Trip) "It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, o...

"I'll always do what's in my client's best interest."  (Dutiful Charlotte Realtor) "...That new technologies replace existing ones because they are cheaper and more consumer-friendly."  (Harvard professor Clayton Christensen on "disruptive technologies") "...The Indianapolis Colts opened as a fo...