The Dallas Real Estate Rant by Steve Holcomb

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Real Estate Agent - Keller Williams Realty
A place to learn, laugh and just plain marvel at the trials and travails of various real estate professionals and their clients. Brought to you by a Realtor and sometimes Attorney serving the Dallas area real estate market.

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2006 

We've all stuck our foot in our mouth during initial negotiations with a client.  You know the drill.  You get a call from a potential seller, go on the listing appointment with your stellar marketing package...only to have them say that they wish you to discount your rate to half of the usual am...
10/27/2006
I frequently hear agents in our office complaining about the marketplace during this time of year, or crying over lingering listings.  This year it is even more prevalent, as the media loves pushing the idea of the "Housing Bubble" (why do we always prefer disaster to triumph in the media by the ...
10/25/2006
One difficulty that every agent has to face is the balance between using your knowledge and experience with real estate contracts to protect your clients without crossing the line into actually practicing law.  For newer agents, this may help you avoid a few pitfalls while more experienced agents...
10/19/2006
One extremely important, but often ignored skill of top real estate agents is the art (or is it a science) of negotiation.  When I first got into real estate I was somewhat shocked at the lack of emphasis on negotiation as a part of the fiduciary duties of an agent.  I realize that I probably ove...
10/18/2006
If you are like most of us, you have seen the agents who advertise "Your Home Sold in 90 Days or I Sell it For Free" or "I Will Sell Your Home in 120 Days or Buy it Myself", and some of you may even use these advertising strategies with varying degrees of success.  Though typically these 'guarant...
10/17/2006
I know what you're thinking.  Riparian...that's a term used in sword fighting, right?  Or is it a new gang terminology for sexual assault?  Or maybe its a term used when you separate or "rip apart" lands or acreage.  Okay so it's not a very common term, but if you guessed water rights in land, yo...
10/14/2006
If you have not first read part I of this blog, please read part I before continuing...After learning more about the story, I agreed to represent the tenants who had been placed by Showhomes into the home of a person that never contracted with show homes and did not want the tenants there.  My fi...
10/13/2006
I am still relatively new to ActiveRain and the blogosphere in general, but wanted to share a story with the network that still dumbfounds me.  I received a call today from a renter who contracted with Show Homes (a company that manages vacant listings and arranges for tenants to help stage the h...
10/11/2006
One of the best and worst problems with my background as an attorney is the occasional listings I get from consumers who have been taken advantage of by their previous agent in a real estate transaction.  I occasionally farm expired listings and was recently contacted by a couple who lost thousan...
10/11/2006
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A place to learn, laugh and just plain marvel at the trials and travails of various real estate professionals and their clients. Brought to you by a Realtor and sometimes Attorney serving the Dallas area real estate market.