Joey Torkildson's Blog

Here are the top questions to ask every agent that someone is interviewing to list their home, in no particular order. How is your real estate business capitalized? In other words, do you have money to run your business? How many names are in your contact management system and how often are they ...

This is such a large generation with such a powerfull force in the market today! These are the shakers and the movers and the potential clients every agent should be focusing on. Combine that with a good "Baby Boomer" plan and you will be all set!

Here are the things every agent should concentrate on and they will succeed at great lengths! I'm actually just hiring a part time assistant and I'm very excited to grow my business because of it! Good luck everyone and I hope you are kicking 2013's ass!

Not one major city is back to the 2005-06 prices yet! Denver and Dallas folks are very close but not quite there! My Minneapolis peeps still have a 26% increase to get to back to those prices! Las Vegas is the worst city in regards to coming back to the pre crash market.

The real estate market, nation wide, is very healthy and been doing a great job compared to the recent past! We all know this, we as Realtors are in the trenches every day so we can feel it! The consumers can feel it because they are the ones who have their home sell in less than a week, sometime...

In my career so far I have run into all kinds of people, in all different stages of life. It is actually what makes my job so fun. I get to learn all the different kinds of decision making processes people make. Now, with that being said, I have also run into the consumer that is afraid to take t...

I'm really new to blogging and this blog really hits home! It's perfect for people starting to get into it the blogging world and it offers a lot of insight. Well written Jon!I think it is a silly question. You do not HAVE TO write. Contrary to numerous pundits, who failed in Real Estate and are ...

Let's keep the whole rate issue into perspective shall we?  Historically the average rates for the last 40 years has been 8.69%....hmmmmm... that's making our current rate pretty darn good huh? Actually until about 2008, the average rate from 2003 to 2008 was 6.06%....once again making our curren...

Interesting concept! Although every generation has it's similarities, if there is one thing that always changes is the way that the different generations communicate. I think we all know that it's important to know how to text, Skype, email, video email, and etc.. But is that enough? I think the ...

If there is anyone who is wondering about how the point system works, Brad has laid it out pretty well! I'm new to AR so this was very helpful!Active Rain point system and "Other Points" I was looking at the people on Active Rain who are further up the leaderboard than I am. (Click on your rank i...