Cobb County GA Real Estate... plain and simple

One thing that interests me more than any other aspect of the Real estate business and any business for that matter is the true craft of precision follow-up.  There was a major thrust by most businesses, large and small, in the mid 90's about how important customer service is to longevity and bui...

Choosing a moving company of the many available can be a somewhat trying experience.  The variation in approach and the method by which they arrive at costing your move is quite considerable.Some moving Services charge an hourly fee based on how may movers will be physically moving you. This appr...

With the advent of free sites where realtors, Brokers and comsumers can look for homes...it can be mind boggling to find a site that can provide the amount of information available locally regarding all formats of property lists to include Free, flat Fee and MLS combined.  I see Active Rains futu...

I am a Independent Broker in New York, florida and now Georgia, specifically the Atlanta metro area.Before I decided to start business here I came from New York for several visits of 2 weeks or so at a time to study this market.  Prior to visiting I did much statistical research and analysis of n...

As the wave of the future continues to ripple so will the Flat fee services.. Consider a seller who has a home that even at bank appraised value is marketable at $600,000.  at 6% commission is $36,000.00 divided by two brokerages and then divided by broker and agent can be equivalent to approxima...

As I have mentioned in an earlier blog, Active Rain has beyond craiglist potential.  Although I beleive this to be true there seems to be some underlying something with this site that lacks a greater continuity that can bring this site to its continued fuller potential.  It just occured to me, wh...

After being a part of this network for a few weeks and looking at many profilew, I have come to ask myself what it is that places many higher in rankings, I am dismayed at high rankings that are largel acheived by adding associates and lengthy blogs that are copied from other sources beside thems...

Sometimes I go to open houses, even as a Broker. As all of us know, there are more women in this industry then there are men.  That being said and also being known by the majority of the population...opens up doors of concern and a concern, that is often spoken of but little tended to.  It is bey...

Exterior thoughts....For very little cost to value, having all your windows cleaned inside and out actually increases the brightness in the house and speak to your cleanliness. Get a few extimates and you will be surprises at the variance of the prices.    Claeaning the exterior doors and the bra...

I have been in Real Estate for some time now and there are so many Buyers and Sellers, Real Estate Sales agents and even Brokers who do not know how to discern the difference between a Condominium and a townhouse. Actually it can be understood from different perspectives. Most of us think of a co...