The California Bureau of Real Estate has decided to clamp down on the agent teams and groups - more on it from Rob Hahn: http://www.notorious-rob.com/2015/09/calbre-to-keller-williams-drop-dead/
Agent Teams Under Scrutiny
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Year: 2015
Price Will Fix Anything
Cliff Failure
For those tempted by the liquid enchantress, take heed - thanks daytrip: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cliff-crumbles-la-jolla-20150911-story.html TV footage of the collapse showed a pool in the backyard of a home slightly hanging over the edge of the...
Today’s Home Buyers
A great summary of today's home buyers provided by John Burns. Interesting to note that 65% of buyers are childless, which must mean that many couples are buying their home before having kids? ...
Live Home Tours
There are new gadgets for real estate coming at us every day, but this one has some promise if it can live-stream without interruptions. From FT: http://journal.firsttuesday.us/tech-corner-reallync-hosts-virtual-home-tours/45666/ Have you ever given a client a tour...
Home Design in 2015
Hat tip to daytrip for sending this in: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150901-luxury-for-the-pinterest-crowd For the Pinterest generation, which is used to browsing and pinning glamorous photos of home decor, showcasing their own magazine-worthy spaces online is...
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy driving an old Chevy truck in this video:
Wild Wild West
Readers may think that this business may have a few bad apples, but overall, won't any agent do? How bad can it be? Here's a story heard recently - and this is typical of the insanity that goes on every day: An agent who was a professed 'neighborhood specialist'...
Hiring a Realtor
Hat tip to the reader who sent this in: Today's post about discounting realtors dove tails nicely with my neighbor. He was adamant about doing the sale himself in order to save on commission. However, when his sale blew up in escrow he relented, and now he has hired a...
Discounting Realtors
Tom Ferry is real estate's #1 educator, and he and his staff are coaching realtors around the world. He was gracious enough to allow me to run his latest video below, where he discusses the developing trends in the business: Right off the bat, he mentions Commission...
