JD's Blog

This is going to be short and sweet. As we all know prospecting is the heart and soul of our business. I don't care who you ask that is successful they will tell you the same thing "Prospecting, Prospecting, Prospecting" now they may all have a millions different ways to do it but the botton line...

      We have several sayings in our office, most would not make sense to the average person but should to every real estate professional out there. One of the sayings is "you don't know what you don't know" how true is this? With the amount of people who have a R.E. license out there how many ar...

Well we just got back and I have to say that even though it was a remarkable time, I am glad to be back. It really was not as difficult to not be by a computer or cell phone for a few days but next time I may just hit up the Internet cafe once or twice. I ran into some other real Estate Professio...

Back again. I spoke earlier of being gone for a few days. actually I will be on a mini vacation, 3 days stuck on a boat off the coast of Mexico. I know a lot of you out there would really like to be steaming off to a far away land but to me I prefer the more out of the way places, I am doing this...

Hey all out there in Blog land. I am going to be out and about till Monday without a computer to spill my guts out to (this is going to kill me!!!) I will survive and I will be back for more lively blather Monday evening. Until then have a productive weekend and keep smiling.

Commentary to come, we had a discussion this week (every week) regarding farming and it holds true in good and in challenging markets that the best way to find and keep clients is to farm. In our office I believe that we have more agents than most other offices including our other First Team offi...

I have been looking over the postings I have done and it has occurred to me that I owe everyone an apology. It seems that I have found a new medium in which to butcher the English language. Now I know there is such a thing as spell check and it really should be my best friend....but what can I sa...

Just in case any of you are wondering about the dog in the picture, that is Wyatt. That particular picture was taken when he was almost 3 months old and 24lbs. He is a Boxer mix, mix with what I have no clue either does the Vet. Wyatt is now 5 1/2 months old and 46lbs. so just in case any of you ...

Hi all, I was sitting here after spending most of the day at the office thinking about a few things. one of the things that came to mind was that if you are doing this thing right you probably have very little time for the family, friends and any kind of a social life. let me clarify this, in the...

I know we all like to think of ourselves as independent contractors and in a way we are. However what Henry Ford said all those years ago hold true today and in every business that wants to stay in business let alone grow. So think about those words the next time you have a problem client, if you...