Ramblings of a Real Estate Newbie

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Real Estate Agent - HomeSmart Cherry Creek - FA.100067131
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According to BrokeAgent, an agent set fire to his client's home and burned it down.OK, so the fire was a definite faux pas. A glaring error, and such a big one, too I'm sure the client's lawyers will help the client get what's right.The agent's attitude as quoted seems to come across leaving a bi...
08/08/2016
Today on Active Rain there was a question about "Sign Crossing" and what exactly it is? Here's one interpretation (mine, of course).In short:A real estate broker (or agent, associate, salesperson, etc., as per local naming conventions) cannot approach - with the intent to enter into a new contrac...
04/15/2016
Something I often hear other real estate brokers say about showing buyers homes: "When I hear the buyer talk about how the furniture is going to fit, I know they're hooked on the house."This might well be true of some buyers, but my personal experience differs.When my husband and I were house-hun...
04/15/2016
How do you negotiate? Do you know what your predominate style is? I know mine!Recently I attended a Graduate, REALTOR® Institute (GRI) course on negotiation. Among many other great tidbits, we were presented with R.G. Shell's five basic negotiation styles and it was discussed that we typically ha...
04/14/2016
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Yay! The Sphere of Influence (SOI)-only "marketing" is working, slowly, as fully anticipated, but working! {bounce bounce bounce} I have a friend and fellow H.O.G. member interested in purchasing a new build home. I'll call her Jane. She'll start looking probably early summer and she's now workin...
04/14/2016
Ginger Harper's question today about The Call of Nature brought up some interesting answers. My own response: I think as a listing agent, I might have this discussion with my seller and if they have strong feelings against it, put it in the showing instructions to please not use the facilities. O...
04/11/2016
Last week I attended a seminar entitled Marijuana and Real Estate Professionals. Since then I've also been: perusing Debbie Laity's series on marijuana in Colorado on Active Rain,  surfing through Colorado.gov's Marijuana web portal, and skimming Realtor.org's Field Guide to the Impact of Legaliz...
04/04/2016
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OK, so having a reluctant geeky/techy background I've long been a website snob. I'll visit a website and often click right back away from it within seconds if it's an old out-dated style or poorly organized or whatever my eyes are catching on that particular day.Now I'm turning into quite the lis...
01/12/2016
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One theme I keep hearing, reading, and viewing as advice to newbies -- "don't ever tell them you're new to real estate."I've even read that if a client asks me directly - "how long have you been in real estate" - to treat it as an objection - or an issue, a concern, or a roadblock - to be overcom...
01/11/2016
This weekend hubby was out of town visiting family so I went wild and went out to lunch with girlfriends on both Saturday and Sunday. {Ha ha, gotcha didn't I? Yes, yes, I'm not very wild.} In addition to spending the days {lunch with these ladies never equates to "just lunch"} with fabulous peopl...
12/21/2015
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