Thoughts On Real Estate And Other Things I Care About
A Southern California Coastal agent's perspective on real estate and other things that interest me! Based in Laguna Beach, Real Estate is my passion.
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2009
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I'm so sad! I don't recognize my country and my government anymore...and I miss it! Do you realize our President and his government just fired a CEO of a public company? He just told the shareholders and board of directors of GM that he knows more than they do about their company. I'm shocked! I'...
03/30/2009
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"I'm just looking right now," "We are thinking of a purchase next year," " We are just starting to look around" We know these statements! We hear them all the time! Sometimes they are defense mechanisms designed to keep us "pushy" realtors from asking them to write offers...but often it's true. T...
03/29/2009
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I have a buyer who really wants to buy a home in the Mallorca community of Mission Viejo. For anyone unfamiliar with Mission Viejo....these condos are right on the lake and have unbelievable mountain views as well. They were built in 1981 and they were designed to take maximum advantage of the la...
03/29/2009
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We all know that there are many opportunities on the internet to blog, chat, Tweet about our day. What are we doing? What has happened in our business and in our lives. We are doing it now! So I was thinking this morning about how to best present my day to someone who doesn't know me. What do I w...
03/28/2009
We all know that opportunities abound on the internet for new client contact. Between the Q & A forums on Trulia and Zillow, article publication, blogs, and the old fashioned email.....more and more you are well into a relationship with a prospect before you ever talk with them on the phone or me...
03/27/2009
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Hi all, Quick update to my previous post on Twitter Success. I'm getting responses to my direct messages. This is amazing! Took me awhile, but now I see how I can make some money on Twitter and develop new clients. Here is the step by step method I'm using. 1) Set up a Twitter Account with a busi...
03/26/2009
So I've been hearing about how great Twitter is...and thinking "huh"? I didn't get it....not the way I was using it. But...I have a success story! Some wonderful AR member told me about Tweet Later http://www.tweetlater.com/land and this made sense. I can go in, for free, and schedule Tweets. I l...
03/24/2009
In a normal market, a normal escrow, there are many activities happening once the negotiation is over and the escrow is opened. After all, we generally have 30 days to get everything done. The buyers are working with inspections and lenders and the sellers are preparing to move and signing disclo...
03/24/2009
First...I'm putting his blog link...he would LOVE comments. I think he was hoping that Google would find it and make it prominent. Don't we all have that hope :)? My son is unusual...if you read any of these posts, not the joke ones, but the historic ones....you will see this. After the blonde jo...
03/22/2009
I just spent some time organizing the bits of information I have been gathering on internet marketing. Ok, so some is in a folder on my desk top, some is in a fancy file in my email called "do this later," some are just "favorites" saved in Internet Explorer. As you can see....I'm very particular...
03/22/2009
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