The DANGER report also concluded that agent teams were a threat: I run a brokerage, and have agents who work for me. But I am a salesman through and through, not a guy making a living off other agents. It is why I write blog posts like the one yesterday - I love...
Appreciate your fellow realtors with more than water!
Tori Prince of Transformed to Sell stopped by to give us some tips on staging a smaller house in Carlsbad. She can give a basic consultation for $250 up to a full transformation of a luxury home. Her quote to furnish this 1,800sf two-story house was $2,600 to $2,900...
Real estate videos are going Hollywood! They were asking $7 million for this one, but no takers: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7080-W-Mulholland-Dr-Los-Angeles-CA-90068/95599733_zpid/ This sold for $1,617,500 in March, 2014, and after some work it was relisted for...
Have you noticed how most realtors pump up the positives, and hide the negatives? It is such a tradition that home buyers expect us to do it, and we don't give it a second thought. Here's a second thought: P.S. I had two doughnuts.
Years ago when our pool was installed, I remembered holding it against one contractor who didn't take his sunglasses off during the interview (I don't wear sunglasses when talking to people, except in this video). I brought that up to a client recently who was doing...
Hat tip to WW for sending in this article - check the reader comments: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-best-of-the-worst-real-estate-euphemisms-218380#.rinzyh:0RX5 We've heard some pretty delusional ways to describe architectural features over the years. There are...
There has been a movement within the industry to create a broker-owned MLS to compete with Zillow/Trulia. I'm not sure they see it as competing with Zillow/Trulia - but that will be the eventual contest, unless they can co-exist. The cost to create and maintain such...
The author of this article got a little wound up about the racy nature of this video, but the reader comments at the bottom covered the issue pretty well - click here: http://www.inman.com/2015/04/24/50-shades-of-real-estate-video-marketing/ The property sale is...
Realtors aren't known for being longheaded - they just do what they see everyone else doing. In an industry that is virtually unregulated and has no leaders, we are left with a full assortment of real estate practices - AKA the wild, wild west. Recently, a client...
