I had a conversation with 2 Realtors in my office re my new venture into real estate blogging in the Virginia Beach area of Va. They both are big on expires and fsbo's and they both do a lot of mailings and a load of phone calls and well organized Open Houses to search for potential clients.I'm s
...
10/24/2007
In my opinion, it's hard to beat a local Realtor who has good content and ALL the homes listed for sale in their market area, updated daily and knows his local product and cares about his clients. It's also important to keep on top of advances and changes in the dynamics of Real Estate. ZILLOW hi
...
10/23/2007
One of the situations that really concerns me is when a client informs me upfront he is pre-approved (a necessity to write a contract; not pre-qualified) with XYZ Mortgage Co he/she found on the internet. Most of the time it's a Mortgage Broker from who knows where that I've never heard of. I imm
...
10/23/2007
It bothers me when I read or hear something negative about Realtors. I am proud to be a Realtor in Residential Real Estate and find it deeply rewarding.As in any profession, their are a few "bad apples" that tend to tarnish the reputation, to some degree, of all. ie Attorneys---and, of course, Re
...
10/23/2007
Anyone thinking about looking for a getaway place to relax from the stresses of everyday life. If you live on the East Coast area especially you might want to consider Virginia Beach, Va. It's centrally located, has 4 seasons, but none extreme, and compared to most areas, prices are still reasona
...
10/22/2007
I'm going merrily along in my Real Estate career in Virginia Beach; I had heard of blogging but didn't know anything about it. At most I thought it was something or other that young people did on MySpace or whatever.I have been using PPC on GOOGLE primarily, sometimes Yahoo, and it has been a goo
...
10/21/2007
Newspaper, Real Estate Mags, TV/Radio spots are still a relatively strong advertising force in the S Hampton Roads area of Va (Virginia beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Norfolk, Portsmouth) primarily because Sellers still want to see their home advertised in these publications. It's certainly not beca
...
10/20/2007
Way back in "prehistoric times" of Real Estate in the mid '90's i was looking for a way to jumpstart my new career in Real Estate in Virginia Beach and somehow I ran across Lenn Harley in N Va/Maryland on the internet. She had a Real Estate web site--www.homefinders.com that reached a large seg
...
10/20/2007
There are a lot of reasons to live in S Hampton Roads (Virginia beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Norfolk, Portsmouth Virginia). The weather is one, 4 seasons without any extremes; Beaches ie Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, etc, etc; population base of about a million of diverse and interesting people,
...
10/19/2007
I earlier today read the really informative Blog (Essay) by Laurie about "Does Blogging really Work?" I'm a true newbie (my 1st one 10/15/07) when it comes to this whole new (for me) world of Blogs.It was so enlightening and informative---Thanks so much for your insight.I was an early participant
...
10/18/2007