Heather's Blog

In today's economy, lenders are just plain nervous. They are taking longer and longer to approve loans, running the buyer through every ringer they can find, sifting through their background like their all out do defraud the government, and making sure that they know absolutely everything they ca...

A typical sunset from my deck!  Believe it or not, that's the Las Vegas Strip out there. Wow!  

Three years ago, when high rise condos were the cat's pajamas, I jumped on the bandwagon.  These unique settings allow a resident to have access to amenities that are atypical of living in a traditional condo setting.  Of course there is a sparkling pool and spa, professionally equipped fitness c...

Boy, what an outstanding list of suggestions.  I love creative people who are willing to share! "Marketing is the differentiation of yourself against your competition.  Advertising is the cost of being boring." That is according to an article I read in BrokerAgentPro roughly a year ago.  The arti...

One of the most common questions I get from buyer’s is “Are We There Yet?” "When do you think the Las Vegas real estate market will hit bottom?” Well, I can tell you that people much smarter than me think we got there. The banks are no longer dumping bank-owned properties on the market, whether b...

Las Vegas has gone from 0 to 60 on the home sales speedometer in 3 seconds over the last 4 months.  I mostly act as a buyer's agent and can tell you I have a lot of frustrated buyers because the properties they like all have multiple offers on them within 1-2 days of being listed.  Just on a hunc...

These are the days of information overload.  Everywhere you turn there is information real estate - blogs, ezines, twitter, facebook, linked in, and of course, ActiveRain.  News, radio, TV shows like Property Virgins on HGTV and I think they're still printing newspapers, or at least they are in m...

For the last year, everyone has continued to expound on Las Vegas, how bad the market is, everyone is moving out, all the foreclosures, blah, blah, blah.  Why is it that everyone would rather focus on the negative then on what's really happening? Over the last 3 months, our market has gone from u...

Unlike some very tech saavy agents, I'm just getting used to all this technology and trying to use it the best way I can to benefit my business.  I've started to follow some fellow tweeters, have learned how to tweet from some news sources I think are interesting, and of course, tweet my 2 cents ...