"I'm going to tell my clients to start buying real estate once things stabilize. It's still too dangerous." (Charlotte Investment Realtor) "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Jonathan Swift from Thoug
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03/07/2010
"2010 home sales will pick up! It's the last chance for Obama money!" (Optimistic Charlotte Realtor) "The world is ruled by facts. People are ruled by ideas." (Anonymous) It might be too late to still be giving out 2009 "Best of" and "Worst of" awards, but please humor me. "Can't Believ
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03/03/2010
"I would never take advantage of a person like that, this whole rent-to-own thing. Taking a non-refundable, upfront option fee of thousands of dollars from them? Like my Broker-in-Charge said, it's almost criminal!" (Concerned Charlotte Realtor) "Are you crazy?" (Keanu Reeves) "No, poor pe
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02/24/2010
"The economy will be back and things will be back to normal." (Calm Charlotte Realtor) Only the Paranoid Survive (Best-selling book by former Intel CEO, Andrew Grove) "Financial Crisis Stalled too many customers CEO no more" (Haiku twitter message posted by just fired CEO of Sun Microsyste
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02/16/2010
"I can't do lease options. They are way too risky!" (Concerned Charlotte Realtor) "That's why it's a short cut. If it was easy, it would just be the way." (Paulo Costanzo in Road Trip) "It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, o
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02/06/2010
"I'll always do what's in my client's best interest." (Dutiful Charlotte Realtor) "...That new technologies replace existing ones because they are cheaper and more consumer-friendly." (Harvard professor Clayton Christensen on "disruptive technologies") "...The Indianapolis Colts opened as a fo
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01/31/2010
"I have a lot of home listings for sale. The only problem is I don't get paid unless they sell!" (Frustrated and Broke Charlotte Realtor) "FHA bailout? New real estate fees, loan rules to avert one" (USA Today headline, 1/20/10) "The point of a business is to make money doing what the customer
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01/24/2010
"Straight sale or no deal." (Charlotte Realtor when presented with a rent-to-own offer) "There's nothing like playing with house money." (Las Vegas Credo) Oh, it has been difficult finding Realtors who want to deal with rent-to-own prospects for their listings for sale. Some won't call you ba
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01/18/2010
"I understand that qualified buyers are becoming scarcer by the day. More and more houses I list are sitting vacant on the market while the owner eats the mortgage every month. Do I just tell them to wait for the market to come back or is there something I can do?" (Charlotte Realtor) "In soc
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01/10/2010
"I'm okay at sales. I send out 1,000 postcards and call all my internet leads every month. I'm just trying to figure out how to convert more of them this year." (Pensive Charlotte Realtor) "That's right! You're not your dad. He could sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves."
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01/03/2010
