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2009
I have been holding city wide open houses for my listings since January of this year. My sellers hold the houses open, willingly, and I think that the energy creates some hope for them. I run ads on the radio and advertise on the web for these open houses. Of course I have to teach my sellers ...
06/28/2009
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I have been doing some writing lately and I can not figure this one question out. What do buyers want in the early stages of looking for homes? Most of the buyers that call my office certainly don't want us pushing them to use us. They seem aloof as if they really didn't want to speak to anyone...
06/28/2009
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In today's economy (whatever that means?) a new restaurant has opened in my area. We only have 7 restaurants and it would be great if this one was good. It is an Italian restaurant and on the menu it talks about Stadium food? Today we went to eat lunch. The spaghetti sauce was bland and had no...
06/27/2009
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So much conflict, deaths and freaked out people out there that I just had to look at the moon to see if it is full today? It seems strange out there like some people are in a fog while others are just freaked out. I want this "phase" to pass and let's hurry up and get back to personal growth, p...
06/25/2009
I was at my kid's swim meet today. What I learned is that my kids are really good at some strokes but suck at others. Unfortunately, when they swim in the relay and they do a stroke that they are not good at, they bring their whole team down. Is this typical of the agent who can't do all of th...
06/25/2009
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I just did a blog about brown grass and then I started looking at other photos. Would you list a home and advertise it like this with these photos? These homes are over 600K! The commission for an agent on this home would be over 18K to market these homes. Can these agents really be proud of ...
06/21/2009
Hello everyone - it is June 21st - Father's Day and everything here is lush, lush, lush! We were in a drought here in Atlanta for the last few years but it has rained cats and dogs here and all the lakes are now at full pool. Here are some examples of listing agents that don't deserve to be pai...
06/21/2009
Sometimes I feel like I did when I was single if I don't have some business going on on the weekends. However, most of our offers in our office arrive on Wednesday. So, I think that buyers that are working during the week with an agent might be a better buyer? I see some of my agents really st...
06/20/2009
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Who wants to write a book with me of new terms that we can write to put on listing descriptions? I think we definitely need to come up with some.... Yesterday I was at Pollo Loco and read one of their signs about their chicken. "The fire embraces our chicken while it sears the juices into the c...
06/20/2009
Simply answer one of these questions, get some points and start the addiction! How did you decide to get into real estate? What quality did you think that you possessed naturally that would make you a good agent, inspector, mortgage person, stager etc..? What has been your biggest victory? What h...
06/17/2009
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