I don't "see dead people" but I do collect ghost stories, and a LOT of agents seem to have had experiences worth reading about! Do you have one to share? If so, I'd love to showcase it (and you) on my Haunted Real Estate blog!Yes, really. After all, it's almost Halloween!! Want to be included? Em
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08/27/2008
Today I went on the Broker's Tour in Silicon Valley's west valley areas of Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno, Cambrian Park (part of San Jose), and Campbell. There's always a variety of homes available - big and small, elegant to simple. Most are well staged and prepared. But each week, I see so
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08/27/2008
Isn't it interesting when the shoe is on the other foot?Right now, I'm just starting to look at real estate in the Westchester area of Los Angeles, California. Why? Because our son, Brian, is an entering freshman at Loyola Marymount University. He'll live on campus the first year, or maybe first
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08/21/2008
A lot of great blog posts are inspired by questions that I get. Sometimes they are asked directly to me, and other times. I check VisiStat or SiteMeter to see how people have found my posts. At least one time in 50, it's a question that lands a Googler to my blogsite.After speaking at Bloggers Co
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08/18/2008
Santa Clara Valley homesellers know that in most parts of the region, it's a buyer's market. As they get ready to sell their homes, or perhaps have homes lingering on the market, a few questions arise: How many buyers will have to see your Silicon Valley home before it sells? How many days, weeks
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08/17/2008
Are you easy to find? Does your company help? In recent months, I've been noticing either website makeovers on established brokerages or new firms emerging with websites that have a surprising trend: many real estate firms are making it harder for people to find you. Now, I do not really blame t
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08/16/2008
Twice this week I heard "canned" lines from agents (I know, I just did a post on boilerplate bios - I guess this is my week to rant about canned dialogue). Don't they know we all - or most of us -get similar training?Most of the time, when real estate professionals learn "scripts and dialogues",
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08/15/2008
Today I got a postcard from an agent who's relatively new to the business. It appears that she studied a number of other agent's biographies and "about me" pages to figure out what to write about herself, because she copied at least part of the description word for word. I'd seen it many times b
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08/13/2008
The Silicon Valley real estate market is composed of many micro-markets. What's happening with Morgan Hill luxury homes is vastly different from condos in Cupertino or entry level homes in Willow Glen. Even within each region and pricepoint, there are smaller markets still, defined often by schoo
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08/12/2008
A month or two ago, I "googled" a phrase where I hope one or more of my posts would be found. Some of my target areas are "Los Gatos real estate", "Silicon Valley real estate", "Almaden Valley real estate" and so on. To my horror, when I did one of these searches, I found that a post of mine was
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08/08/2008
