Carol Williams' Real Estate Marketing and Goal Setting Blog
As a retired agent, broker/owner, and property manager my blog is a menagerie of wisdom and ramblings from my career and life in general.
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2016
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Here is a wonderful featured post by Mike Cooper from last October's Advice To Newbies Challenge. I'm going reblog a variety of these over time. I don't think newbies can get too much advice from veteran agents who have been in the trenches. Enjoy!Carol We were all newbies at one point. I'm su...
05/15/2016
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I've always had a fascination with pretty much anything related to residential and investment real estate. Not so much commercial, but anything involving structures people live in. Single family, multi-family, apartment com-plexes, whatever.I bought my first house when I was 21 years old and I'...
05/14/2016
This is an important post by David Gibson. People tend to get reckless during a "hot" market. They're so anxious to get in on the action and win the bidding war. A great agent is even more valuable during this kind of a market. A couple of months ago I wrote about the difference in price and ...
05/14/2016
Here's a nice post by Carie Shapiro about how she utilized ActiveRain to benefit her when she first joined the site. I haven't seen Carie post for a while but she sure nailed the resources of content and community available in The Rain. I've sure come a long way since uttering those words! Yo...
05/13/2016
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One of the questions often asked in the Q&A section of Active Rain is:"What are the advantages and disadvantages of seller financing"Here is my answer:The biggest advantage for both parties is there are no pre-set "rules or guidelines". All terms and conditions are completely negotiable between ...
05/13/2016
Do you know people who are always in a state of drama? Everything is a crisis to them? Every time things don't go their way, they act like the world is coming to an end? They're just in a constant state of frustration?What is the difference between crisis and invconvenience?"It is perspective" ...
05/12/2016
I love this Advice for Real Estate Newbies post by Jenna Dixon. The earning and spending of money in real estate is very misunderstood, especially by those just getting into the business. You won't be in the business long before the realities start becoming very clear. The best advice I rec...
05/12/2016
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. -Henry Ward Beecher"Life is full of twists and turns, giving you plenty of opportunities to make course corrections in this journey through life. Can you even remember the last day that...
05/11/2016
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Great advice from Lottie Kendall about how to get started right in a career as a real estate agent. If I were to choose one piece of advice for newbies in the real estate industry it would be one that needs to periodically be revisited by us all .... Eat That Frog! The saying, "eat that frog" i...
05/11/2016
It isn't clear when I became aware of it, but I am happy to have the ability to find silver linings in dark clouds. Like everyone does, I have suffered my share of challenges and tragedy in life, starting with the loss of my Mother when I was 7 and my Dad when I was 12. Talk about life altering ...
05/10/2016
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