Working with buyers or sellers in a challenged economy takes a lot of effort and communication is key. From the time you start to interact to the final customer survey you should be sending to them. Often we are afraid or uncomfortable communicating clearly with the seller. We need to get over that unless...
“I know what the contract says, but…” might be the lamest saying in the real estate business. And maybe the most often used. I’m not sure when we lost our respect for the plain old signature. It might have started when we first began faxing documents to other agents, rather than putting together packages...
Image by reeltor99 via Flickr If we’ve not met, this probably won’t mean anything to you unless you’re a dog lover. If we’re friends, you may know that Cisco is a Black British Lab, who was a service dog for my late wife (who spoiled him out of being a work dog, but never...
I’m in San Francisco for the third ReBarCamp. As a result I got to hang out this weekend with my friend and partner Ginger Wilcox, and spend time with her children and my friends Todd Carpenter and Andy Kaufman. While we were having breakfast this morning Ginger asked me to read the latest post...
Photo courtesy of creativecommons.org and wellzee I just read an article about an estate agent at Jackson-Stops & Staff estate agency in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, who listed a house for 650,000 pounds (roughly $1,300,000) owned by two women, Suzanne Richards and Sarah Dobinson. The couple obviously expected professional service from their agent...
Photo courtesy of creativecommons.org I read a recent rant in a blog written by a well known blogger who shall remain nameless (because I don’t feel like promoting him). In the post there is a lot of rhetoric about doing how this blog is the only place where the truth is spoken without...
Photo by KIWI NZ I got an email earlier this week from one of my Partners. “Would you suggest defending our listing? Check out Philly Blog – the blog is 2040 St Albans. The blog poster was a previous buyer in a failed transaction. The home inspection revealed defects. The seller was willing to...
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