Leanne Smith's (highdesertre) Blog

With today, March 31, 2024 being a significant religious holiday for Christians around the world, I thought this book by Bobi Seredich entitled Courage Does Not Always Roar: Ordinary Women with Extraordinary Courage captures much of what happened thousands of years ago.The two women who came to t...

Here in the high desert of Golden Valley, we have designated flood plains.  These designations are updated on a regular basis not only by the EPA but by our local county flood officials. Professional real estate agents will secure flood plain letters confirming the existence or non-existence of f...

Once again a headline created a pause for concern and several pondering thoughts. The leading sentence to this article from a national real estate website shouted:Women in real estate are already earning 60% less than their male counterparts.” (Source: Forbes March 2024 Gender Pay Gap Study)My se...

Part of the real estate transaction once the offer to purchase has been accepted is to receive the preliminary Title report. Escrow and Title firms will send a preliminary title report to the buyers usually with one to seven days.  Then usually 24 hours before the actual close of escrow date anot...

Much is written about due diligence being the responsibility of the buyers. Yet for professional real estate agents these individuals recognize their responsibility respective to due diligence.For me, I have created my own personal acronym for DUE.D=Deliberate.  I must be deliberate in my actions...

The media outlets and real estate information forums, newsletters, websites, etc. continue to predict that real estate sky is falling and woe to real estate agents.  Funny thing about predictions, they are usually wrong.Remember all the hysteria about Y2K bug and the 2000 scare?Then we had all th...

The last two weeks have been beyond busy (10-12 hours days plus) and my morning discipline of posting to Active Rain has taken a back seat to meeting real estate commitments along with some personal commitments. My first revisited learned lesson is sometimes one must prioritize one’s actions and ...

Victor Hugo said it best:“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”To be successful, to triumph in life, in business and especially in real estate sales, one must embrace perseverance on a daily basis. Now, in 2024 for real estate agents given what has happened within the real estate industry, is no...

Our thoughts reflect our attitudes as Zig Ziglar stated "Attitudes are habits of thoughts." Those thoughts are filled with words which we think consciously or unconsciously.Norman Vincent Peale understood the power of thoughts with these words:"When you change your thoughts, remember to also chan...

As a seller or a buyer, this fact may be of interest:81% of the sellers and 71% of the buyer’s only interviewed one agent whom they subsequently hired (Source NAR)There are several possible reasons why interviewing only one agent happens: A sales referral from family and friends which NAR’s indic...