People want to see cut-throat realtors! Video here: http://www.ocregister.com/2017/05/18/orange-county-real-estate-wars-to-debut-on-bravo-tv-july-6/ “Real Estate Wars,” a Bravo-TV reality show pitting Orange County agents against one another as they try to woo wealthy...
Realtors Talking Shop
Real Estate Speed Dating
Real estate hysteria is reaching new levels: LINK It sounds like an unorthodox concept: Meeting complete strangers to see if you’re compatible to buy a house together. But as bizarre as it might sound, that’s exactly what happened on the third floor of the Toronto bar...
Staging A Home to Sell
More introduction to our favorite home-staging company, Transformed to Sell. In this video you will hear third-party testimonials of how home staging benefited the sellers – and buyers too!
Auction Questions
David from Louisiana sent this in: Jim, I just watched your first attempt at the auction and must say that you did a fine job as the auctioneer. I have been a real estate auctioneer/realtor for 30+ years and have often recommended an auction to fellow realtors in high...
Disturbing Realtor Stories
Want to know what it's like being a realtor? There's more to it than just driving around! Walking in on people having sex, or discovering a body is part of life. But if you want to get a feel for some of the sickos out there, click on the link below!...
Most Realtors Don’t Sell
There are 80,000 realtors in CRMLS - Art Carter is the CEO. Here's what he had to say about agent productivity: But many of the MLS’s 14,000 or so member firms have no listings, he added. The vast majority of the firms are one-man offices. “Typically, only about 48...
Flippant
I agree with the author about answering questions casually - agents look like idiots when they make a flippant remarks about work. The condition of the 'market' is relative to your own personal situation - it could be good or bad....
Dual Agency Case
On the surface, this case seems unusual - the seller's agent owes both the buyer and seller a fiduciary duty if the buyer's agent works at the same brokerage. It's because the agents are working on behalf of the broker - hopefully this will cause better broker...
$641,000 Over List Price!
We just saw this 2br house on a 0.96-acre lot in Leucadia on September 25th, only three weeks ago: https://www.bubbleinfo.com/2016/09/25/acre-west-5/ After 12 offers and furious bidding, it's already closed - for $2,436,000:
More on Real Estate Disrupters
The latimes.com gave free publicity to a couple of real estate start-ups here: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ditch-the-real-estate-agent-20161001-snap-story.html Let's examine piece by piece: Real estate agents used to be privy to a lot of information that...