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When the Buyer Disappears July 30, 2010
Winter, spring, summer or fall,all you got to do is calland I'll be there yeah yeah yeah.Ain´t it good to knowthat you´ve got a friendpeople can be so coldthey'll hurt you and desert youwell they'll take your soul if you let themoh yeah don't you let them.James Taylor If you've been in Real Estate very long you know what Mr. Taylo […]
Bob Haywood, www.BobHaywood.com (McGraw Realtors)
Processing a mortgage for the short sale buyer...pay attention now! July 30, 2010
Like most purchases my involvement with the short sale buyer probably started out with prequalifying the buyer, and putting them through the preapproval process. Then I issue a preapproval letter based on hard copy financial data. Pay attention now! It has a shelf life...It's not good forever. If the negotiation of the short sales takes 3, 4, 5, 6 mont […]
Jay Beckingham (HomeLynx Home Loans)
Your Clients Need To Know You Care - Before They Care What You Know July 30, 2010
I was reading a great blog by Richard Wiseman on Knowing Your Competition. It is crucial to understand what your competition is offering so you can create several higher levels of offerings that will make you stand out as a marketing guru. Of course you need to provide a good track record to cement the ideas you implement.Just this morning we emailed 3 of […]
Dorie Dillard: Canyon Creek & NW Austin Living (Coldwell Banker United)
Overpricing your home? I can't help you... July 30, 2010
About a year ago, I was talking to a fellow agent about how we run our businesses. Probably, that my first mistake right then and there. (Just Kidding)... However, I told that agent, no matter what I tell sellers when I look at their property, I could hit them in the head with the "TRUTH Sledgeahammer" all day long, a lot of them STILL opt to list […]
Jim Gatos (Keller Williams Realty)
Would You Like to Bring RainCamp to a City Near You? July 29, 2010
Recently, the RainCamp train made a slight deviation from its normal 'Big City' course. After doing LA, New York, DC, Dallas, Chicago and a number of other big market cities, we booked a RainCamp in Prescott. Some of you may have been thinking, "Prescott? Where the heck is that and how did RainCamp end up there?" We ended up in Prescott ( […]
ActiveRain Corp.
What's a Homeowner To Do? July 29, 2010
I recently went on a listing presentation where I knew the seller had negative equity. When I arrived, I got the customary tour and received a detailed list of property upgrades. I asked the seller the typical questions: how many loans to you have; what are the balances; monthly payments etc. I could tell he was hoping that I would tell him that I am a mir […]
Stacie Kvanvig, Real Estate Dame (Keller Williams Legacy One Realty)
STOVEPIPING! July 29, 2010
STOVEPIPING! "retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another" Dictionary.com WHAT'S THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL ESTATE PRACTICE TODAY AND THAT 20 YEARS AGO?? 20 years ago, almost all of our contracts closed. Indeed. Y […]
Lenn Harley, Real Estate Broker, Virginia & Maryland (Lenn Harley, Homefinders.com, MD & VA Homes and Real Estate)
Are Cutthroat Home Buyers Causing Home Values To Decline More? July 29, 2010
Question: Are Cutthroat Home Buyers Causing Home Values To Decline More? While you're working with a buyer, when they write an offer, do you just let them write it where they want? Do you let your buyers write low offers just to get that desperate seller to give their home away? Are you writing multiple offers to see which sellers are desperate? If yo […]
Lisa Udy Realtor Utah Real Estate Specialist (Logan Utah Real Estate The Platinum Real Estate Group)
No, No, No! Buyers Are NOT Liars! July 29, 2010
I'm going to steal a page from the Broker Bryant rulebook and dredge up an old post from the distant past. In fact, what follows is one of my very first posts here on Active Rain, but I was inspired to re-post today it by Susan Haughton's excellent post on the same topic... Besides I only got 8 comments on it the first go-around (hmpf!), so let […]
Jennifer Allan, Author of Sell with Soul (Sell with Soul)
You Might Be A Redneck Home Stager If... July 29, 2010
You Might Be A Redneck Home Stager If... I live in metro Atlanta, which is Jeff Foxworthy country. Last I heard, he lived about 20 miles up the road from me. We all love him around here. Last week my husband and I went to the local diner for dinner (supper?) where they have a Jeff Foxworthy calendar on the counter. He has a "You might be a redneck if […]
Patsy Overton (Stage, Show & SELL Home Staging Co. Atlanta, Georgia)