Joey Smith's (joeyinnaples) Blog

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Real Estate Agent - Tropics Real Estate - SL3164885
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Just wanted to update everyone that we just opened our newest Naples area Marketing Center/Office at the Big Cypress Market Place located at 220 Basik Road (4 miles east of Collier Blvd/951). This is a unique marketplace for the Naples area with a winery (grapes grown outside); a full seafood and...
01/04/2009
I have often wondered how Naples stacked up in the world of "expensive real estate".... I know we don't come close to comparing to Manhattan....where an apartment can cost $75 million.... and I have had conversations with realtors from the French Riviera and they tell me stories where property......
07/02/2008
A gentleman came by my office last night....and he just bought a property here in Naples....and was having "buyer's remorse" that maybe he bought too soon in the "recovery"... I tried to put his mind at ease...knowing all the indicators were that with a normal bellshaped curve that it shows the N...
07/02/2008
Have you ever been in a house showing it to a client when another realtor comes in to show it? Well, ok everyone has.... but have you ever been writing a contract on a house, while in the house and another client comes in that shows the house and they also made an offer on the same house that day...
06/27/2008
In early 2005, Warner Brothers Television Production, Inc., introduced a show called Hot Property, a real estate sitcom, aired on the ABC network about cutthroat real estate agents. The comedy show featured four women working together in a Manhattan real estate office. As one of over 80 pilot sho...
06/27/2008
Written by Woody Guthrie in 1944....with a melody made famous by the Carter family..... it is a folk song that binds us together.... This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and...
06/27/2008
There is probably no better advertisement for giving back to your community than talking with a realtor. Want to know what community activities are coming up? Ask a Realtor... Want to join a local community organization and not sure which one is right for you? Ask a Realtor.... Interested in star...
06/27/2008
Does this sound familar? Prospect comes in and asks for property in a category and at a price that seems impossible to attain....and.... we never give up....so we dig and dig and dig and '.....' whoohoo....we find the perfect property.... Still we don't feel entirely like this is the right proper...
06/26/2008
How many customers do you have each week ask you....what the market is going to do? In today's negotiable market, some do it tongue-and-cheek, some ask - planning to refute whatever you say....if you say anything positive.... ...but some ask you ..... believing you have an idea.... I don't have a...
06/12/2008
Is there any more perfect opportunity for a sitcom than Real Estate. I don't know anyone in this business who does not have many, many stories that would make Seinfeld's show about nothing...... pale to compare. The listing divorces, the strange property showings and trying to work in multiple la...
06/11/2008