It's funny how when some folks are trying to buy a property, you can relate to them and you really want to help them, while there are others who just rub you up the wrong way and you would rather that the other couple get's the house. Of course, you work for the vendor and ask every buyer to put
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09/02/2011
Some of you will remember my vendor, let's call her Amanda because that's her name, who provided fresh home grown vegetables free for people who attended her open home and she followed that another week by baking cookies, how nice is that! Well the home has now settled and I made the final inspec
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08/04/2011
We all talk about doing the very best we can for our sellers but what if we put down in writing what we already know we do and actually make it a Service Guarantee to Sellers, if we did it would probably read something like this: At all times, I am your agent, working for you, not the buyers and
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06/30/2011
It's a common sight on most business doors, open or closed and hours of business, usually Monday to Friday 9 -5 or very similar. Unless you are like this shop owner who obviously sets his/her own hours to suit. I thought you might enjoy this as much as I did. By the way, I'll be here, if I haven
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06/10/2011
Whenever I sit down with a vendor, I always talk about creating a sales strategy to achieve a premium price. This usually means styling the property and getting the presentation just right, creating memorable marketing materials, advertisements, brochures, floortplans and very high quality photog
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06/10/2011
In February, I was elected president of a new BNI chapter called BNI Balmoral. We started with 20 members and then 2 failed to turn up, then 2 more started and we yo yoed a bit but I am pleased to say that as of 1 June we have 24 members with a goal of 25 members by the end of June and 30 by the
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06/01/2011
AREC 2011 was a fantastic real estate event, not only did we enjoy international speakers and authors of the calibre of Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Turner, Keith Ferrazzi but we took notes like crazy with real estate trainers including Tom Ferry, Bob Bohlen, Lillian Montalto and the UK's Peter Rollings b
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05/23/2011
Being the last presenter at a huge two day event is always going to be a tough call, but our last speaker at AREC11 today was presenting to a full house as everyone was excited to listen to Nick Vujicic. Having recently seen Nick on a story on Australias 60 Minutes TV show I knew I had to experie
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05/23/2011
The theme at AREC11 was SHIFT HAPPENS and so it did, one of the key note presenters Tom Ferry was unable to be at the conference in person because he had just has his appendix out the day before he was to be onstage in Sydney! That did not stop him though, he was still ready to impress us so usin
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05/23/2011
Every great conference like AREC11, the second largest real estate conference in the world, has a great exhibitors area with a huge range of trade exhibitors. I was fortunate enough to catch up with Kevin Turner who hosts the highly respected REUNCUT internet show and Kevin was kind enough to int
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05/23/2011
