Rob Howard's (robsellsknoxville) Blog

I am approaching my 5,000th twitter comment. It's about 90% real life and 10% real estate. My clients and friends have always been positive about it. I have a few hundred followers and often clients leave compliments while I work with them. I love all the social media that I do, but sometimes I w...

I was recently asked to give some tips on staging your home to sell for HGTV.com.  A link to the article:Staging Secrets: Top 10 Ways To Wow Potential Buyers At Every ShowingLearn from realtors how to prepare your home for resale. Start with these 10 simple and smart tips. Some of the tips: Stagi...

I would love to be up and active 24 hours per day. It seems the mass of research and questions I receive from my website are in the evening when I'm either on showing/listing appointments or spending time with my wife. I have been resistant to doing some of the things others have suggested. I am ...

  When is it good news that home "values" are decreasing in your area? When they are decreasing a lot more elsewhere, I suppose. According to a recent report from Zillow.com, Knoxville Tennessee home values have decreased a little over 2% in the first quarter of this year - that is compared to 1...

I am pretty much a veteran realtor at this point. I'm a broker, have hundreds of sales under my belt and all the resume stuff that we all work toward. But I want to know how others are finding the virtual tour as a marketing tool. A friend of mine does tours here locally. I'd definitely use him: ...

I just posted a new piece on my blog - one of those crazy things realtors see in rental homes that are for sale. Check it out on I Love Knoxville!   Have a great day!

I have listed and sold a few foreclosures in the past few years. I have sold 20-to-1 for each one that I've listed for sale. I would love to do a lot more of foreclosure listings. I already know about the down-sides - I have people lined up who can do the trash-out, re-keying, securing, tracking ...

I'm so glad to be getting back in the swing of things after seeing and spending a little time with my wonderful family. I'm gearing up for the new marketing campaign and trying to figure out a few new inexpensive ways to reach out to my outstanding referral team (i.e. my past clients) and get rem...

I think I'm guilty of something serious - over-availability! Any day at any time you or anyone else in the world can contact me. The phone number, the e-mail address, URLs, all that stuff has my details right there. "Call me," It begs. Is this every realtor? Do  I throw out business cards like a ...