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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2010
This morning Leslie Helm wrote a blog post called Why Do Sellers Re-List With A Tenth-Rate Agent?? and as I was commenting it occurred to me the answer is because we have not educated the public...they really don't know the difference, so they stay with a Realtor they are comfortable with, regar...
01/21/2010
California has a small problem right now....it's raining. We don't do well in the rain. We don't slow down on the freeway, we don't sandbag our properties....heck, often we forget to turn off our automatic sprinklers. That's right, driving carpool this morning I saw home after home with it's spr...
01/20/2010
I met with a new listing of mine yesterday. As we were talking in the living room, I noticed she was looking forlornly out the window at the house across the street. I knew why, it was a new listing as well....and it was a short sale. I also knew the list price....ridiculously low. As we spoke, s...
01/19/2010
I have an affinity to songs and poems....I'm inspired tonight by the series of Pacific storms heading for Southern California, the first of which is gracing my backyard right now. So...in the spirit of the rain, Active Rain, my ditty for the night. Obviously to the sing-song kiddie rhyme: It's ra...
01/17/2010
Part of my initial conversation with sellers normally includes the sentence "I'm going to be the closest person in your life during this transaction....I'm going to be your adviser, mother and priest, so call me day or night and you can tell me anything." I have found this to be true. Over the ye...
01/17/2010
Real Estate should not be a calculated risk. It could be an investment or a family home, but it's not supposed to be a gamble. Isn't this what got us into this mess? For the past few years the United States Real Estate Market was one big poker game and all you needed to play was an IOU and a nice...
01/16/2010
Spend a few minutes on the Internet reading about Realtors and you will read horror stories about the industry. Obviously, the bad stories get more press than the good ones, but buyers and sellers read these articles too...and are right to be concerned, this is their home! For years I've included...
01/14/2010
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It's been bad all day. I normally write my blog posts in the morning, but today...nothing. And I'm not compulsive about writing a post every day, in fact I often miss a day or so....but today I FEEL like writing and have no ideas. I hate that!!! I have written several blog TITLES so that's a star...
01/12/2010
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Why do we need to be compared to anything? Why? I see all over the Internet Realtors comparing themselves to doctors, attorneys and CPAs to justify our commission. "Would you go to a doctor and expect him to examine you for free?" Oh, come on......let's be fair. We have not spent years and years ...
01/11/2010
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Most of us grew up with the advice "Everything in moderation" the rest have at least heard this. This does not just apply to the Martini or chocolate cake....it's just as critical in business too. Sales professionals are terrible at this, as a group. Because we are basically unaccountable (from a...
01/10/2010
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