Janice's Blog

My real secretary is out sick. I am covering for her. I found out that I can single handed screw up the office.!!!!I think that we all take staff for granted! I will not do that again.  I can not find anything, let alone enter appointments into Lucero. Appointments are being made. Just like in th...

My business partner won two"free" airline tickets to be picked up after a short sales pitch for the time-share in the Catskills. The Friar Tuck Inn to be exact.I decided to go along for the ride and to see the sales pitch. Of course, I wanted the additional air fare ticket.We actually were given ...

A few weeks ago on a rainy & chilly Sunday afternoon, I went to see an OPEN HOUSE. A customer had asked me about it. This seemed like a good time to preview it.I got to the Open about 2:00Pm. The only car in the driveway was the agents car. Normally, the agent would have been at the door, happy t...

The new agent interview is scheduled for this morning.For those yogis in Active Rain: Last week the instructor "tried" to help me perfect a dancer pose. I am probably the clumsiest person in balancing that you will ever meet. As the instructor tried unsuccessfully to help me into this beautiful p...

If you know that GNN means "gotta go now" and FTR means "for the record" you are probably text savvy.We hosted a training on Friday by our ERA Business consultant. He introduced us to TXTERA. This has been available since January. I thought it was too complicated to explain and waited for help. I...

I have seen two house fires in my neighborhood. Both homes were totally destroyed, but no  injuries.The first fire started because of faulty wiring to a hot tub. Instead of having a dedicated wire to the hot tub installed, the owner decided to "save" money and to jury-rig the wiring.The fire star...

This is a story about our bookkeepers misappropriation of company funds.(this happened several years ago)If anyone had asked me about our bookkeeper, I would have praised her competency plus the fact that she was a family friend not just an employee.I should have paid more attention when an Amex ...

NO TIME RESTRAINTS------NO PAID ADVERTISINGIf you have a listing on a busy road, you can host an Open House whenever you have the time. Just put your sign up add some balloons and you are ready. The best part is you can stay any length of time that works for you: 1 hour, 30 minutes, 2 hours, you ...

I've noticed that sellers are now offering all kinds of incentives to induce agents to show their houses. It might work but I am not so sure.If the house meets the criteria of the buyer, chances are the agent is going to show your house with or without an agent incentive.Some incentives are time ...

Did you know where the horse head in the infamous scene in the Godfather came from?? It came from Poughkeepsie. A local horse vet provided the head.IBM made typewriters here.Vassar college was actually a girls college founded ny Matthew Vassar. There were no closets in the dorm rooms only a few h...