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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Wynd Realty
Managing Atlanta's changing realty landscape. Broker / Agent business models, Micro Broker concepts, agent centric focus, lowering cost and raising effectivness.
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  Atlanta, GA—Wynd Realty is the first real estate brokerage company in Atlanta to offer its agents a program that allows them to brand and advertise their services independently of broker affiliation.   Under the program, simply known as “the DBA Program”, agents can create and market their own ...
08/25/2015
Northwest Exterminating does a good job treating and controlling termites under their care. But, if you are thinking about buying a home in the Atlanta market that is bonded under Northwest Exterminating, you will never know if the house you are considering has ever had termites, where it had the...
08/21/2015
An Evolution in MindsetThe real estate industry continues to be mired in its worst slump in history.  And, without any radical changes coming anytime soon; it hardly appears to be that great a time to be a sales agent.    Well, it’s all a matter of perspective.For many, real estate sales are incr...
08/19/2015
In response to market conditions, Wynd Realty has announced two new features to their agent compensation plan.  Effectively immediately, the transaction fee for sales less than fifty thousand dollars (50K) has been lowered from $300.00 to $150.00.  “Years ago when the company began we never envis...
08/19/2015
I received an email from the Georgia Association of Realtors (GAR) the other day.  It was the first time I had ever received such correspondence.    For years I have railed against GAR and local realty Boards for not being able to articulate their value added message.  I just didn’t get it.   But...
08/17/2015
In real estate, nothing stirs the passion of agents more than a discussion of using part-time versus full-time sales agents.     Unfortunately, 99% of this, eh, passion, comes from only one side of the argument.  It’s a pretty safe bet in any online search of this discussion you won’t find many v...
08/17/2015
The Passing of an Era The 1970s must have been wild times in the real estate industry.  At the start of the decade the industry found itself in the middle of an interesting business model shift.   Old school Realtors didn’t like the new franchises.  They fought tooth and nail against “big busines...
08/14/2015
Beginning February 2014, Wynd Realty will offer Georgia MLS products and services.  Since 1962, Georgia MLS has been providing real estate agents with the quality products and services they need to meet the demands of their ever-changing environments.Historically, the Atlanta real estate market g...
08/12/2015
The Zillow Agents are coming.  The Zillow agents are coming.  No, Zillow’s merger with Trulia doesn’t signal their entrance into the brokerage business.   That will mostly likely come later.  However, the merger does signal, “who won”, in the real-life survivor game over the hearts and minds of t...
08/12/2015
“They have become the real estate industry’s artifact of the modern technology revolution.”, Brad Inman, Founder and Editor, Inman NewsCondolences are pouring in from every corner of the real estate industry.  It is impossible to read any real estate publication without seeing references to the Z...
08/11/2015
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