Living Realty, LLC

What a great day today! Things were really buzzing here at the office. Earlier in the week we held a session on building neighborhood reports to help us maintain contact with our clients. I promised the team that I would pick up postage for any reports completed by Friday. Congratulations to Beth...

As managing broker of the office, when I have time, I like to reach out to our coop agents in the market place to say congratulations and thank you when we ratify a contract. It is important to me to let them know that if issues arise in the transaction that I am available to help.This afternoon ...

Over the past year I have come across many people who currently own a property, would like to move up to a larger home, but find themselves under water in their current property. As agents, we frequently throw up our arms in frustration as the seller has two primary choices: show up to the table ...

Things have been quiet on the blogging front lately. I guess that is a good thing when you are too busy to blog. I thought it worthy to jump back in today. Tonight we are conducting a lead generation workshop here at the office. This should be a great event. Whether you are new to the business or...

The 2008 real estate year is already off to a great start. Open houses are busy, contract activity is picking up, the general buzz around the office is, well you know, buzzing. Does this mean we are out of the woods yet? Not necessarily, history in Northern Virginia real estate has shown us that ...

Happy New Year everyone. I hope the holidays treated everyone well. I personally had a wonderful time relaxing with my family. For the holidays a colleague of mine gave me a copy of the book, "The Heart of a Leader" by Ken Blanchard. It was a very enjoyable book, a quick read, and it had some ver...

It is Friday once again, which is a great thing after a busy week. As I walked down the shopping plaza to grab a quick sandwich and get back to work, I had to remind myself to stay focused and not call it a weekend just yet. This is the time of year (and I've done it many times in the past), that...

Wow, it is Wednesday already and I'm making my first blog entry of the week. I guess it is a good week when you have to carve out time to blog.In our office we run our business meetings on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month. Yesterday I had a conflict in my schedule and was unable to lead th...

While visiting a broker open house this week I had the opportunity to chat with several team members from another brokerage.  I asked the group the question, "Why did you choose your company?"  It was very interesting to hear the responses.  It was not the commission split, it was not the tiered ...

 Wow, the end of November is shaping up to be a very busy time of year. A project we are having a lot of fun with at the office is our upcoming holiday toy drive. I thought it would be worthy to post the information about the drive to our blog. If you are feeling generous and would like to contri...