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After almost 13 years in the Colorado Springs real estate market, I can safely say that a lender can be the life blood of a successful real estate transaction. Good lender, good transaction. Bad lender...you know. Anyway, I've been thinking, as I urged my favorite local lender to join Active Rain...
11/07/2007
Colorado Springs is NOT one of the 10 best real estate markets right now, but I thank God for our steady and faithful client base in these lean times. However, times are tough and we have to cut the budget and tighten the belt. One of the places we have to show some wisdom is in our advertising b...
11/07/2007
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I know you've all seen the late night commercials that promise millions of dollars working part time in the distressed/foreclosure market. You can get all the "insider secrets" for just a couple hundred to a couple thousand of your own hard earned money. There are even "mentors" and "partners" av...
11/07/2007
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I just got done reading and responding to a blog about how there is so much "useless" information here on Active Rain and coming from real estate professionals in general. The person who wrote it could not see the need for sending clients things like recipe cards. Well, I answered that person and...
11/05/2007
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Wow...I just realized that the last post I wrote was my 100th! Now, that's reason to celebrate. What have I gained over this past year of blogging on the Active Rain network?-Referrals! Actually closed deals with cash in pocket...going on number 4 now...what more could you ask for, but yet there ...
11/05/2007
Last year it was a breeze to get financing for ALL of your qualified clients...AND it was easy to tell who was qualified with a few quick questions. This year...the line is WAY fuzzy and it seems we don't know what there is to offer our clients.For example: Last year, if I had a client with a cre...
11/05/2007
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I just read another member's post about taking time to do things with the family and taking advantage of the down turn in the market. Although, I have plenty of responsibilities and am still quite busy, I'm the slowest I've been all year, so why NOT take a day off to do those things around the ho...
11/01/2007
Many of us have been discussing the recent turn in the market and what that has done to the sub-prime borrower, but mostly, we've been discussing that within the context of what happens to a person with marginal or poor credit that is trying to purchase a home with little or nothing down. You fee...
11/01/2007
This post was inspired by another member's question about the upward trend in the market. Although it is illegal to dictate or infer that there is a set price, (Price Fixing), for commission charged...it is apparently not illegal for a brokerage to advertise discounted commissions or rebates to S...
10/31/2007
I was just thinking of how we talk to our relocation clients about how to prepare for coming to the altitude in Colorado Springs from sea level...many people don't realize that the air is thinner here and your body, (even if you are in great shape), may take some time to adjust. We share these ti...
10/31/2007