Rhonda Duffy's Blog

Many people, as you know, have taken up blogging as a hobby.  This is one of my neighbor's sites and I think that they have done a wonderful job of promoting Milton Georgia.  It looks to be a Blogger blog platform with an enhanced template.  The pictures are gorgeous!  I am just so impressed with...

Often times we do a Strategy Report for our sellers showing them how many houses are on the market versus how many buyers there are that have houses under contract.  This is a current assesment of the market for them and they are able to grasp reality a little better.  In one area of the Metro At...

Lets say your seller receives and offer and they don't take it.  What is the percentage based on the sales price that they are apart? Hundreds of Dollars 1% of List Price 2% of List Price More than 2%?   Thanks for sharing...  I think an interesting aspect to real estate is that we all have the s...

Please remind your buyers and sellers that if they are not in a personal recession, it is okay to live out their dreams of buying and selling.  Buying a home and selling a home is a right that we as real estate professionals don't want to take away from our clients.  Now when I am asked, even on ...

Most home sellers and especially homebuyers have no clue as to how to interview their future real estate agent. You have the right to have someone represent you as a buyer client even though the seller pays the commission. This is called buyer agency. Most states require that you sign an agreemen...

Well, this seems simple enough - don't lose your shirt. All kidding aside, most people don't know how to negotiate a contract, or at least one that they won't regret later. So, here are some guidelines to making a sound decision while making some money. This article is for home sellers, but you h...

Many people ask me what is necessary to sell a home in today's market. My response is LOVE. The pouring of love onto your home is a simple thing that you can do and everyone knows that love is an action. Buying a home is an emotional experience for a buyer. You can not sell a buyer a home that th...

Staging is the rage across America right now. Whether you are selling your home or simply re-decorating, Staging has given hope to all of the women and men out there who wanted to feel like they were legitimate decorators, but did not want to go to school to learn decorating. However, Staging has...

Volume real estate transactions often baffle the average agent. In fact, the average agent is lucky to close 20 transactions in a year, which equals only 1.5 transactions per month. And yet, it would be highly unlikely that there is a need to spend 160 hours on any transaction. This stems from a ...

A real estate agent is a person that is used as an expert to facilitate the selling of real estate. In my opinion, a real estate agent should be open to new things, including innovative marketing ideas and cutting-edge changes that impact buyers and sellers. A real estate agent should be someone ...