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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
I remember when I started in this business... WAY BACK in January of 2009...  that I had a lot of the more experienced agents telling me that I needed to get out and hit the pavement, knock on doors and hand out business cards.  They told me that I needed to GET MY BUTT OUT THERE and FIND MY CLIENTS!!!  Since I had a lot of experience with promoting past websites and social networking, my response to them was WHY NOT LET MY CLIENTS COME FIND ME???  Don't get me wrong, I knock on doors and hand out business cards left and right, but most of my clients have found me online, whether it was a google search, them finding my blog, finding me on Zillow, Twitter, Facebook, AR, Trulia, etc etc etc...  Which brings me to my question to you:  How many different ways to you communicate with your cl...
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By Brian Kuhns, Fort Wayne Real Estate by Brian Kuhns
(Coldwell Banker Roth Wehrly Graber)
Brian Kuhns | Coldwell Banker Roth Wehrly Graber | bkuhns@cbrwg.com | (260) 489-2485 x8487 1809 Wisteria Place, Fort Wayne, IN OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY JULY 19th 1-4 4BR/2.5BA Single Family House offered at $224,900 Year Built 1997 Sq Footage 3,060 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2 full, 2 partial Floors 3 Parking 2 Car garage Lot Size .28 acres HOA/Maint $10 per month DESCRIPTION Significant Price Reduction! This Is It! Custom, One-Owner Home w/4000+ SqFt of Finished Living Space! 3060 Up & 1247 in Bsmt! 4 Large BRs, 2 Full/2 Half Baths! Before You Go Inside, Look Up to See the Stained Glass Dome! Open Foyer w/Leaded Glass Window! The 30x20 Master Suite is Your Private Oasis After a Long Day! Includes Double Closets, Jetted Garden Tub, Oversized Shower w/Dual Heads, Heated Marble Floors, Gas Line for F...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
One of the reasons I LOVE selling real estate in Fort Wayne is that every day is different, every day is an ADVENTURE!!  Most days are good, some days are bad, once in a while the days are boring, and some days are... well...  just CRAZY! After working until around 9 for the third day in a row I woke up this morning just feeling DRAINED!  After 2 cups of coffee and a Diet Dr. Pepper I finally started to feel alive again.  We had a second showing with some clients on a BEAUTIFULLY remodeled farm house and once I find out answers to a few of their questions we are going to write up an offer.  YAY!! After that showing we headed to my mom and step dad's house for a FAMILY COOKOUT!!  My brother Ryan and his family are in town from St. George Utah so all of the 6 kids and their spouses were t...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
What an incredible week!  We have been running and running and running and running…  and I love it! We have picked up a few new buyers this week, plus a few new listings, it’s just crazy!!!! We had a pretty cool experience with a buyer this week.  “Tom” came into town for a few days to see some houses, then was planning on coming back in a few weeks to look at more and then make an offer.  Well…  we showed Tom and his girlfriend 8 houses and the last one we saw was exactly what he wanted.  EXACTLY! We got together the next morning and wrote up the offer and within a few hours they accepted it!  No counter!!  I couldn’t believe it and neither could Tom.  It’s his first house and he is very excited about it. We’ve also got showings with two couples today and we think two more offers are ...
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By Brian Kuhns, Fort Wayne Real Estate by Brian Kuhns
(Coldwell Banker Roth Wehrly Graber)
   The following market report includes data from June 1st to June 30th 2009 for residential single family homes in Eel River, Perry and Lake Townships (mls al01) in Northwest Allen County. 80 single family homes sold in June (up 54% from May) Median Sales price was $145,000 Median Days on Market for homes sold in June was 57 Median Square footage for sold homes in June was 1916 least expensive home sold was 29,900 Most expensive home sold was 550,000 Total dollar value of homes sold in June $12,529,834 Data for current listings in Northwest Allen County as of June 30th 2009 563 active listings median list price $155,900 (down 11% from May) median square footage of listed homes is 1,957 least expensive home available is $12,468 most expensive home available is $1,999,999.00 median days ...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
Fort Wayne Real Estate Market Reports on SOLD homes for first half of 2009 Houses SOLD in Fort Wayne:  1650 Average LIST price:  $115,100 Average SELLING price:  $108,717 Average SQUARE FEET:  1717 Average DAYS ON MARKET:  82 LEAST expensive home sold:  $200 MOST expensive home sold:  $1,300,000   Average DOM Breakdown and Average % of list price recieved on SOLDS by market time:  0-30 days:  95.13% 31-60 days:  94.78% 61-90 days:  94.24% 91-120 days:  94.60% 120 + days:  93.48%   How the first 6 months of SOLD homes in Fort Wayne in 2009 compares to 2008: Houses SOLD in Fort Wayne:  1865 Average LIST price:  $116,736 Average SELLING price:  $111,362 Average SQUARE FEET:  1703 Average DAYS ON MARKET:  79 LEAST expensive home sold:  $1 (Bet that was a beauty!) MOST expensive home sold:  ...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
WIMBLEDON, England Serena Williams beats big sister Venus Williams 7-6 (3), 6-2 on Saturday for her third Wimbledon title. I say..  WHO CARES??????? Did you hear about the 1st Annual SouthWest Fort Wayne 4th of July Open sponsored by REMAX Home Connection?? Well if you haven't heard about it or didn't atten you missed a battle of the ages! Huge underdog Jared Christiansen pulled off a stunner today, defeating the much younger and defending champion J. Michael Christiansen 0-6, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5, 7-5 for his first (and probably last) title. Oddsmakers in Vegas made J. Michael a HUGE favorite to win over his much older father Jared, but the old dog had a few new tricks up his sleeve.  After getting beat down the first two sets Jared threatened to "ground" his son if he didn't let him win...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
We have both been running like CRAZY lately and are ready for a nice break!  We have a huge closing today on our very last flip.  It’s a deal we have been trying to close for a long long long long long time.  It will be a nice relief when it’s done. Other than that we have a few showings this afternoon and then that’s it for the weekend!  Time for a BREAK!!!!! Hope everybody  has a fun and relaxing long weekend, I know we will!!!!! Fort Wayne Realtor Jared Christiansen Fort Wayne Homes For Sale REMAX Home Connection Fort Wayne and North East Indiana Fort Wayne Realtors Jared and Amanda… WE work, YOU win!!
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By Brian Kuhns, Fort Wayne Real Estate by Brian Kuhns
(Coldwell Banker Roth Wehrly Graber)
     I've posted some of my personal favorite reasons for loving to live in this city in my profile...but Fort Wayne was recently once again chosen as an All American City by the National Civic League.  The NCL's award honors communities that work together to solve issues facing cities and Fort Wayne was one of 10 cities chosen for the award this year     This years award makes Fort Wayne a three time winner (1982,1998,2009) and an entrant into the All American City Hall of Fame.    Fort Wayne was recognized for it's efforts in assisting refugees and helping them integrate into the city and also for it's efforts in helping kids through the Great Kids make Great Communities program.    Another reason why I'm proud to call Fort Wayne Home !!
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
So here we go, installment #3 in my "What I have learned" series.  Installment #1 can be found HERE, and installment #2 can be found HERE.  Hopefully installment #3 can be just as entertaining! I HAVE LEARNED... that listing your brother in law's house comes with MORE pressure than a regular listing! that TWITTER is an awesome tool for search engines and guiding people towards your website. that if your a REALTOR and your first name is BUDDY then you can program your manual lock box code to be BUD on your listing.  That's just cool! that "needs a little TLC can sometimes mean that it's a complete gut job! that when a mortgage company you are using doesn't call your clients back because their credit score isn't high enough right now AND when that same company completely forgets to call y...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
Most of the time when I blog I tend to stick to one subject but today I feel some RANDOM RAMBLING coming on!! Let's see... in the past week or so we have had some pretty crazy and fun things going on.  Here are a few in random order. HEAT:  I'm sure most of the country is pretty hot right now so you can understand what I mean when I say WOW!! Wednesday I had showings all afternoon with a great couple.  I think we saw seven houses.  That's all good except for the fact it was 96 degrees and HUMID AS HELL!!!  We met at the first house, walked around the house, walked around the back yard, started sweating, walked back in the house, talked about likes and dislikes, then went out to the car with was at least ELEVENTY BILLION DEGREES INSIDE!!!!!  By the time we got to the next house I was fin...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
WHAT A WEEK!!!! Monday and Tuesday were office days, full of setting up showings and hours on the phone with new and past clients and following up with many many things. WEDNESDAY Showings with our new client "M".  Showed 5 houses and she is interested in 2.  We are going to do another search and show her a few more houses and then she is ready to make an offer. THURSDAY Showings with "C" and "K".  Fun fun FUN people with a great sense of humor!  We saw 7 houses and they had serious intersest in two of them.  Another round next week and then I see offers coming!  THURSDAY NIGHT Get a call from "A".  He wants to see 4 of "my" listings.  I explain to him that those aren't my listings but I would love to show them to him, explain how things work, and start setting up showings for Friday!  ...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
This past week or so has just been NUTS!  The closings keep piling up, the buyers keep coming out of the wood work, and the blogging just has NOT been getting done!!  Trust me, I'm not complaining.  The very last flip that we started last fall is finally closing on Friday.  It has been a LOOOOONG journey with that one and can't wait to hand over those keys to the new owners.  We have picked up FOUR buyers in the last FIVE days, all pre approved and ready to go.  I love first time home buyers!!! We finally got an accepted offer for one of our more difficult buyers yesterday.  THAT ROCKS! Finally, we are closing on another difficult deal tomorrow afternoon.  THAT ALSO ROCKS!!!!!!! While all this great stuff is happening my blogging has vanished into thin air.  After a weekend of celebrati...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
As you can see my wife Amanda and I are a TEAM!  I have her back, she has mine, we use our combined strengths to help people buy adn sell houses.  With new clients we both go to the first meeting and get a feel for the client's personality and from there we decide who takes the LEAD position in this relationship.  Working together like this has been HUGE for us and being a husband and wife TEAM has really opened some door for us.  Well, we have ran into our first little "hiccup" of sorts.  I am working with a really great guy that I picked up as a floor call.  I have shown him about 6 houses and there is one particular home he really likes and has made an offer on.  There was one counter from the seller, one more counter from us, and then a flat out rejection from the seller.  We moved ...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
I woke up this morning and laid on the couch and watched a few episodes of Weeds on DVD.  What a great show! Then at 9:00 I made some coffee and watched Roger Federer finally win the French Open and tie Pete Sampras for most major wins in a career.  I was SO happy to see this: After that I cleaned up and went to my open house.  Not a great open house but I did meet a very nice couple that will be building a home like this: After the open house I met with another client to show him two houses.  His daughter and son in law (also my clients) were there too so we had some good laughs.  They are great people but I don't have a picture of them. Then I get home and my wife Amanda made some of her fantastic tacos!  THANKS AMANDA! Wonderful tacos, a cold beer, and then I get home in time to watc...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
I love being a Realtor.  Just LOVE it!  Yes, there are ups and down, blah blah blah, but when the ups out weigh the downs...  that's a GOOD thing!! I have been fighting a cold for a few days now and this morning when I woke up and felt like CRAP I finally decided to give in.  I laid on the couch for a few hours and watched Serena get beat and then watched part of Federer's match.  Good times.  :) I laid there and thought to myself..  SELF:  Doesn't it feel great to NOT be thinking about real estate?  Oh yeah, feels so good to TURN IT OFF for a while.  Then my phone rang.  It was my wife Amanda (also a Realtor with RE/Max Home Connection here in Fort Wayne, IN).  She said that during the inspection on one of our pending listings the inspector smelled GAS and stopped the inspection immedi...
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By Gina Zimmerman, Fort Wayne Real Estate
(North Eastern Group Realty)
Wow, my phone is ringing off the hook.  Buyers are buying and sellers are selling.  Seems as if the mortgage underwriters are slowing things way down but all in all there is so much more energy in the market.  So just wanted to provide an update on market conditions in Fort Wayne, Indiana.   Median Sales Price               89,900    vs  100,000 in 2008   Average Sales Price            114,728    vs  105,453 in 2008   Units Closed This Year            1,260   vs     1,058  in 2008   Volume Closed This Year         289.4   vs        227 in 2008   Inventory                               2,981   vs     2,606 in 2008   Pending Units Per Month            478    vs        463 in 2008   Average Days on Market          116.3    vs        119 in 2008   Months of Supply                        6.2...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
You ever have those stretches where you have so much going on that you wake up at 3 am and you are WIDE AWAKE because you can’t stop THINKING?? Okay, I know the clock says 5:00 but it was the only pic I could find that fit! So I’m laying there and I start thinking about ALL the things I get to do today and how much time each should take: My wife and I are knocking on doors in our main farm area. .. TOTAL TIME:  2 HOURS I need to return about 4 phone calls… TOTAL TIME:  1 HOUR I am going to spend some time working on my blog and website… TOTAL TIME:  1 HOUR I have a few emails to reply to… TOTAL TIME:  15 MINUTES I have a few things to do in the office today… TOTAL TIME:  2 HOURS I am meeting wit a client tonight to make an offer… TOTAL TIME:  1 HOUR So let’s see…  where are we now… 7 H...
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
Big changes for my (our) profile now!  My wife and I are officially teamed up and ready to explode!!  Look out Fort Wayne, Jared and Amanda are HERE!!!  Fort Wayne Realtors Jared and Amanda Christiansen Fort Wayne Homes For Sale RE/Max Home Connection Fort Wayne and Columbia City Jared and Amanda... WE work, YOU win!!!
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By Amanda Christiansen, Christiansen Group Realty
(Christiansen Group Realty (260)704-0843)
I started blogging here on Active Rain in January and in 5 short months I am going to hit 50,000 points!  I have really enjoyed learning and making new friends here.  That and the fact that my Active Rain blog has helped me climb the search engines.  In the next few days my profile here is going to change as my wife and I are teaming up and changing all of our marketing to feature both of us.  She's much prettier than I am too so that can't hurt!  Anyway, just wanted to say THANKS to Active Rain and the many friends I have met here!!  On to 100,000 points next!!!! Fort Wayne Realtor Jared Christiansen Fort Wayne Homes For Sale RE/Max Home Connection Fort Wayne and Columbia City Jared and Amanda...  WE work, YOU win!!
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