Where is the bottom? The real estate market is still in decline according to the most recent stats. When will we hit the bottom? The truth is nobody knows! The market can turn faster than Brittany Spears goes from drunk to sober, to good mom to bad mom! As long as lenders are tight on [...]
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Gas Prices And Real Estate! The price per barrel of oil seem to have a price impact on everything from food to the cost of a new DVD. The one thing that is not impacting is the price of real estate! Too bad because this could be one of the few positive spotlights for Sellers [...]
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Where does all this “change” come from! Look at the state of our country! In 2005, the realty market was on fire, gas was $2.00 a gallon and nobody knew a politician named Obama unless you were from Illinois!
Fast forward to 2008, faster than Michelle Obama can do a “daps” with her husband Barack Hussain [...]
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O.K, I’m an equal opportunity offender so here I go.
One thing that always gets under my skin since I began selling real estate, or “sell’in that dirt” as local real estate legend Jeff Curtis once said to me, is the designation status Agents bestow on themself. ABR, CRS, CRB, DREI, GRI, CIPS,TRC, TMP to name [...]
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They tell me that next to divorce and death, that buying and selling a home can be one of the most stressful things we can do in our life! When moving, it is always difficult to leave family and friends behind. Sometimes it simply must be done…..its’ life. Career changes, promotions, lateral moves to a [...]
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So you want to be a Realtor? It was a funny weekend for me. I listed a house two weeks ago and we have shown the property three times since then. The last couple I showed the home to decided to make a very nice offer. My seller decided that “it was too easy” for [...]
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I have said this again and again in past Blogs, but I am making this the focal point of this write because it is the truest thing you will ever read on the Internet. EVERYONE with a heartbeat and a brain knows what caused this real estate mess we are in………. EASY CREDIT or “lose [...]
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I was thinking today about how fast real estate markets change. Just a few years ago, Realtors in Tampa Bay were freaked out over a new business model that was advertising 2% commissions. The spokes person used to say that “it did not take 5%, 6% or 7% to sell a home”. It only cost [...]
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No friends in real estate? Consider yourself lucky! One thing I have learned over the years (I read this in a book recently) is that all things being equal, a person will do business with the person they know, a friend. All things NOT being equal, people will STILL do business with [...]
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