Barry Owen's Blog
Tips and commentary For Home Buyers & Sellers and REALTORS with primary focus on LIVE - Work - Play - Life Rhythm - Life Performance Oriented thinking for regular folks
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2008
I consider you to be a LEADER. I am currently the Principal Broker and Career Development Coach of the Keller Williams Realty office in Nashville, TN - Green Hills. My primary daily focus is helping folks DECLARE their true leader within . . . Isn't it interesting how much material (Books and ar...
08/19/2008
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How many times have you reached what you thought was agreement between Buyer and Seller - as well as Commission agreement . . . and then discovered later that there are details in the agreement that can be interpreted in different ways? As a Principal Broker, I seem to have had bestowed upon me (...
08/18/2008
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Is there anyone in your inner circle who is the quintessential LEARNING BASED person? This would be a person who always has the latest book in-hand . . . who often quotes other people (famous or not) - Book titles come readily to mind in casual conversation . . . A person we see in our world as a...
08/16/2008
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What sells a house? Tony DiCello chimes in that "Price gets you in the game and condition gets you the offer." So, what do you do if the Seller wants to list at an unreasonable price or refuses to do what it takes to get the house in perfect showing condition? Some REALTORS would go ahead and tak...
08/14/2008
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WHEW! This week has been quite full of great training in our office. The SPRINTERS are humming along swimmingly each morning and are reporting phenomenal results . . . and my 36:12:3 group is plugging in like I've NEVER seen seen a group plug in. We had a great AHA today. When working on script...
08/13/2008
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Since the beginning of time, story telling has been instrumental in the shaping of our world as we know it. Certainly, many of our belief systems come from the story tellers, and the stories themselves have found their way into many cultures with marginal changes in substance and meaning even as ...
08/12/2008
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I've had the most fun the past few days catching up on Seth Godin's blog postings - He always get me going down interesting paths in my thinking . . . Doesn't help much that I am also reading a "Final Draft" of my Dad's (Harrison Owen) latest book "Wave Rider - Leadership for High Performance in ...
08/11/2008
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Can you believe it? I actually survived EIGHT days without blogging OR talking on the telephone. Deb & I took our kids down to our new favorite beach on Santa Rosa Island off Pensacola. When we left the house, I made a solemn promise to myself to have a REAL VACATION and swore to myself that I wo...
08/10/2008
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This message is for those agents who are relatively new to our business and have not yet found their "comfort zone of confidence" when negotiating deals and navigating through transactions. I know there is much uncertainty and even FEAR - Will you do the right thing? Will you advise your client w...
08/01/2008
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Stream of consciousness commentary on the real estate industry from the perspective of a Principal Real Estate Broker and Founder of Pareto REalty, LLC in Middlle Tennessee - Also a Career Development Coach with vast Organizational Development/Transformation training and experience - in the industry since 1993