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Real Estate Sales Representative - Long and Foster Smith Mountain Lake Office
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Our area is beginning to see more and more Auctions.   It is a great thing for the Auctioneers/Agents, they receive top commissions and get paid for their advertising whether it sells or not.   This past weekend we had a huge development use Auctions to sell property, not because they needed too,...
04/14/2008
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Technology has certainly improved since I started over 20 years ago.  We use to take a photo, get the film developed, mail the photo to our MLS and they placed it in the MLS Book each week.   Wow..have things changed.   Now the choices we have for a Virtual Tour are amazing.    In our area we hav...
04/13/2008
I guess the longer you are in the Real Estate Business the more stories you have.   I think one of the weird stories that I have is the Squirrel Who Broke in my Listing but did not Escape.   Apparently this Little furry animal decided to scurry down the Brick Fireplace of one of my Lake Cottage h...
04/13/2008
With bulging inventory and more buyers sitting on the fence, I find myself not only asking Sellers to get the Price right with the market but to also make the "Desiribility Levels" higher.     Staging certainly has worked in a market where homes stay on the market for longer periods.   Sometimes ...
04/13/2008
One of the things I hear from people all the time is their REALTOR never gets back with them.   In a slow market where houses might stay on the market longer, this is even more important to stay in contact.   OurMLS system FLEXMLS allow us to set up our contacts to receive market news immediately...
04/12/2008
Of course as REALTORS, we are asked on a daily basis what we think about the market.  Is it picking up or When will it pick up or even worse when will my home sell.    The media has created a Market full of Fence Sitters, in my opinion.   If anyone has any winning ways to get those buyers off the...
04/12/2008
I have lived in the Smith Mountain Lake Area all my life and watched how this once rural area that was known for good fishing and a great place to go camping, has now after 30 plus years evolved into a Beautiful Lakefront Community with over 500 miles of Fresh Water Lake to Boat On, Go Fishing, G...
04/12/2008
In the last few years, I think we were all busy, but now that things have slowed down and advertising budgets are so limited, I find that I am using more and more New Sites to get the word out about the type of properties that are in our market including Front Door, Craigs List, Active Rain and m...
04/12/2008
The cost of advertising has risen to an all time High and yet it seems that print advertising is not producing the phone calls it use to produce.   The internet is a much lower cost for getting your properties into the hands of potential buyers.  Most buyers are shopping on line these days, howev...
04/12/2008
Todays market is offering many challenges for the Real Estate Industry and therefore making us work harder to find ways to sell homes.   When you have a Seller that really needs to move to another area and they have not had any luck selling, the next idea might be "TRADING"     You can post an ad...
04/11/2008
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