Craig's Blog

There is definite change occurring in Real Estate brokerage including mergers, acquisitions, sellouts, roll-ins, conversions and plenty of closings of Real Estate offices. My job is to have my thumb on the pulse of these changes; any hint of someone making a move initiates a call from me to see i...

It’s 5:30 Tuesday morning and I’m in my car heading down the road again for a week of appointments. One thing I love is to see the sun coming up over the hood of my car on a frosty fall morning. Few cars are on the road between towns on the rural sections of the highway which makes it very seren...

I surf and I surf yet I cannot seem to find who coined this all-popular phrase but I can tell you it is not limited to basketball. Never has it had more importance in Real Estate than now, and those that understand basic finance understand the term net income. Net income is best described as reta...

Happy Tuesday to all of you professional Real Estate Agents. Today I want to share a secret with you. A secret about success in not only Real Estate, but life as well. I am currently reading a book called "Training Camp" and it is about what the very best do that everyone else does not. In other...

  The Real Estate business is, as George W. Bush once referred to something, “Not Rocket Surgery”. Would you agree we make it seem more difficult than it is? Then, when things are not going as planned, the blame game begins. Well, it must be the weather, the economy, the ozone layer, those darn b...

As I travel around the State of Michigan, I am still amazed at the number of independent Real Estate offices that are swimming in debt and waiting for that next deal to close. If you follow the Michigan economy at all, a large number of Real Estate transactions are either Short Sale or Bank Owned...

June 03, 2009 Distressed Properties: Blight or Boon? EXIT Realty's US President Addresses Power Broker Attendees Real estate professionals should adopt the role of information provider   EXIT Realty Corp. International US President, Tami Bonnell, recently addressed attendees at RISMedia's 4th An...

Another post from another top agent with EXIT Realty, published with permission from the author, Vince Arcuri at www.headofrealestate.com I came to Exit for the single level residuals and the UNLIMITED potential they offer.  What I am in shock over is the constant offerings of first quality trai...

Excerpt from:  EXIT Realty News April 09, 2009 Top Producing Agent Joins EXIT Realty Northeast Houston EXIT Realty welcomes John Buchanan, formerly of Keller Williams® Humble, Texas (Grassroots Newswire) April 2, 2009 -- John Buchanan, one of Houston's top real estate professionals, joined EXIT ...

Each week our newest associate from Tampa, Vince Arcuri, posts a blog about his experience since joining EXIT Realty. So, why is this blog-worthy and why would I re-blog his comments? Simple, Vince was #1 in the World for ERA in 2008 and left to join EXIT Realty; a true professional Realtor that ...