If you stick around long enough, almost anything can happen. For the first 19 years of my real estate career, I was able to say I had never seen prices go down, only up. For the next 16 years I…
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Is That a Listing in Your Pocket or Are You Just Glad to See me?
As the real estate market has heated up, the topic of pocket listings has become a focus for many agents and brokers around the country.
“Pocket” or “off-market” listings aren’t really a new phenomenon; in every real estate market where listings are scarce, there have always been real estate agents who saw opportunities to increase their income by offering limited exposure marketing programs to sellers.
Rentals – A Blessing or A Time Bomb?
I never intended to have a property management department. Then my Mother-In-Law got laid off when her company closed, and I wanted to help her with a little additional income. I owned a few properties, and some clients were asking…
Is Your Moral Compass Broken?
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…
Have you Made a Reality Check Lately!
Image by Xtreme Xhibits via Flickr In January I returned from the Inman Connect Conference and the ReBarCamp in New York City and had the opportunity to talk to people from all over the country about the real estate industry. As…
This is Why Brandie Young ROCKS!
Its the middle of a really busy work day, so obviously I need to check out what my friends are doing on Facebook (I am after all an American). And there is the lovely Brandie Young on my live feed…
Why Salespeople Make Me Hate Them
In a recent search, I noticed a post by another brokerage firm about a relationship with RealtyTrac that was promulgated by their national franchise. . It reminded me why I hate salespeople sometimes. This post would indicate to a real…
What Use is a Real Estate Saleperson?
Image via Wikipedia If you follow me in the world of social media, you know that I am a Twitter person. I listen, I comment, and I enjoy watching the stream This morning someone wrote “If Realtors are really successful,…
What are the Fundamentals of Real Estate?
Image via Wikipedia Maybe I’ve been around the real estate industry for too long.Or maybe I’m just not bright enough to get the economics “du jour” – in any case, when I saw an Inman News article entitled “A new…
Foreclosures Halted by FDIC
Photo courtesy of Creativecommons.org As the FDIC takes control of IndyMac bank after the third largest bank failure in History, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article in which they announced that they would be halting foreclosures . While I…
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