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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2009
How badly do you want your sign in that yard? If it's in a great location with high visibility in the midst of your farm, you might agree to something unusual. Will you play Russian Roulette with the owner? In what other careers, do the practitioners not get paid til the job is COMPLETED in it's ...
08/19/2009
Final walk-throughs can be WONDERFUL experiences - or NOT! Don't you love it when you arrive for the walk-through and the lawn has been freshly mowed . . . The house is nice and clean . . . You find a copy of The inspection release on the kitchen counter with a check mark on each item and a smal...
08/17/2009
It's fairly obvious to me that many people think all REALTORS are the same. They think we REALTORS are "commodities" . . . We all do the same things, and the consumers buy us by the pound. Why would I think such a preposterous thing? After all, isn't it a BFO (Blinding Flash of the obvious) that ...
08/17/2009
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HUH? Isn't mid-August a tad too soon to start thinking about the winter? I don't think so . . . ESPECIALLY not this year! Talk to any 3 "Economic Experts" and you'll hear 3 distinctly different opinions as to what the short term future holds for us all . . . ALL three experts will get a silly lit...
08/14/2009
There's one sure-fire way to sabotage your quest for success, and it begins with perspective amnesia. When a person loses (forgets) perspective, even the smallest issues may escalate into major ordeals. This is why mountains are sometimes made from mole hills. With any large scale construction pr...
08/13/2009
As a US Army Engineer officer, one of the first things I learned in the field was this formula: Dirt + Water = MUD - Add more dirt = MORE mud (and one heck of a quagmire) This field of buying and/or selling houses was already quite a mud pit - Chock full of "opportunities" for delays and complica...
08/12/2009
A friend calls and says she has a great opportunity for you. She knows of someone who owns a house that he DESPERATELY needs to sell, and she knows that YOU are the PERFECT person to handle it. How flattering . . . Don't you LOVE it when you get an endorsement like that? Here's a perfectly good l...
08/11/2009
Be careful what you claim if it is in ANY way a distortion of the truth! Seth Godin says in his blog post (Link is below): "Here's the danger: when the very first interaction we have is one where you are sort of not telling the relevant truth, where do we go from here?" People are looking for AUT...
08/10/2009
Every so often, we stumble into a client relationship that's unsettling. Have you had a client whose taste is COMPLETELY opposite yours? They want to buy a house in a neighborhood that is notoriously losing value every day? The house to the right of the one they want has 11 pit bulls on chains in...
08/09/2009
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There are still people out there who think they can out-smart the market. Historically, very few significant accomplishments have EVER come about according to the plan. These are the strategists who KNOW what they "NEED" in order to be willing to sell their homes. They are willing to "Test" the m...
08/07/2009
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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