Top 9 Reasons For Real Estate Representation

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Top 9 Reasons For Real Estate Representation: 1.  To Optimize Sales Price. Properly pricing your home is perhaps the most crucial factor in making a sale.  Althought you and your agent set the price, buyers determine the value.  They'll compare your home and your asking price to similar … [Read more...]

Why do real estate agents carry big purses?

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Because we carry lots of stuff! … [Read more...]

Reality Checks

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National housing numbers came out this morning, and not surprisingly the news wasn’t great.  As much as it sucks to say it, we don’t think that it will be better any time soon. Personally, I think it will probably take at least another year before we see real improvement but I sincerely hope … [Read more...]

Real Estate Reality: Know Who You’re Talking To At An Open House

Know Who You're Talking To at an Open House

Do you know who you're talking to when you meet an agent at an open house? In most cases they are the listing agent, and their job is to represent that sellers. … [Read more...]

Six Month Listing or Four Seconds to Sell?

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The National Association of Realtors posted an article today about first time home buyers being half of the people who bought homes from July 2009 through June 2010. Interesting, sure, but given that we had the tax credit deal going on I don’t think it’s all that big of a surprise. Scroll … [Read more...]

Understanding Real Estate Commissions – who get’s paid what….

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Nearly every client that I’ve worked with has asked me at some point how the commission thing works in a real estate sale – there’s a lot of misconception out there.   The same goes for the relationship between brokerages and agents.   Here’s the skinny... The average real estate … [Read more...]