Michael Roberts's (djmikeyr) Blog

Many of you are aware of the national trend towards the "Fee for Service Agencies" such as Help-U-Sell and others.  Many of you may be aware of your states internal wars over exactly how to deal with these agencies.  I have become somewhat informed on what is happening due to my wife being a Buye...

Over the past four or five months I have polled my clients and had the agents in my office ask the same questions.  Which were Do designations behind a Realtors name mean anything to you? Question two:  Do you know what GRI, ABR and so forth mean?Surprisely although this was conducted on a small ...

Recently I have had this discussion with several other brokers and a few agents and it seems there is a considerable gap in opinions.  I am somewhat old school in my tracking and followup practices.  I believe that one should maintain contact "until the client/customer either buys or dies" and ev...

Over the past few months like many folks I have watched the national media spread "Their" fears that the national real estate market was taking a down turn. Over and over again we all have heard the doom and gloom reports and surprise, surprise California, Texas, Florida and a few other areas acr...