As real estate agents we will often hear buyers boast about the fact that they found their own home and I think that's great because buyers SHOULD take an active role in find their new home. But here's the kicker, the real work begins after buyer finds the idea house that they want to call home.
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09/30/2011
But What About the Neighbors? It's one thing to find a great house, in a great neighborhood, but you can't always be sure about the type of neighbors you'll have. You might get a mixed bags of personalities and character types (everything from friendly, nosy, noisy, indignant). I was lucky. I'v
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09/30/2011
I could have very well replaced "conrtractor" with "property manager" because this is exactly how I am feeling today while I am dealing with an owner who is getting in the way of my doing my job effectively. You wanna hire me as your contractor, let me do my job. I’m going to see a doctor for
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09/29/2011
Want to get your home sold? Well there is more to it than than wanting to selling and sticking that sign in the yard. Come sellers, I'm pulling for you, but you've got some work to do. Best wishes.Now that you've made the decision to Sell your home, it's time to think about how to prepare your
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09/29/2011
92,333Points to Free Earlier this month I blogged about my blogging pattern and how I don't seem to be blogging as much. Seems to me that I must have forgotten about one of the other real perks to blogging on ActiveRain and that's the road to a FREE Rainmaker account. This month's billing of $9
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09/29/2011
Who Says Buyer's Won't Pay For Their Services? Of late, I've written a post or 2 about being paid in advance for our services or providing consulting services for which the buyer or seller shares in some of the risk. I was contacted by a purchaser the other day who had already identified a proper
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09/28/2011
LOCALISM: Get Your GREEK To Go! 39th Annual Greek Festival in Birmingham The other day I posted about the 39th Annual Greek Festival to take this weekend (September 29, 2011 - October 2, 2011). I posted the menu as well, but what I didn't post was the menu for Take Out Orders. You can actually
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09/27/2011
Bonus With Full Price Offer. Really? Sellers here's a tip for you: If you are going to offer a bonus, you may want to offer a bonus with an acceptable offer. And for the record, let's define acceptable offer as follows: ACCEPTABLE OFFER: Any offer in which the seller ACCEPTS (regardless of wh
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09/27/2011
Candy's post provides some valuable training on how NOT to deliver stellar customer service. If you are looking for ways to improve upon your existing poor communication style, you'll want to read this post for sure. For those of us who are obsession about making sure that we communicate effecti
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09/27/2011
Want to Buy New Construction in Birmingham, But Can't Afford It? Sometimes buyers avoid looking at new construction homes because they believe that they can't afford them and in some cases that's true. There are usually 2 schools of thought when buyers are seeking new construction: It's often be
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09/27/2011
