I had a call this morning from an Agent or an Assistant this morning [Sunday] before 8:00 am. The caller wanted to know if I would show 2885 Black Lode today. I told her I would be happy to take the lead and pay a referral. She gave me the Buyer's phone number. She said she could not get to Presc
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07/24/2016
As an Agent in Prescott, Yavapa County, Arizona, I sometimes run across Sellers who do not want to list their property but insist on selling it themselves. I don't think that works very well.This week one such Seller told me she would pay 3% Buyer-side commission on a nice parcel of vacant land.
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07/07/2016
OK, Trulia, I gave You a Chance and You Blew it!I am a listing specialist. I put a lot of thought into the possibility of "featuring" some of my listings. My thinking was that I would be serving my listing clients better if I could feature their homes on Trulia, Zillow and Realtor.com.Just to te
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06/03/2016
Lotta Balls Bouncing -- Agressive Time ManagementA few years ago I was working in Engineering Research and Development. We were working on creating new products and building prototypes and systems. I hired an outside consultant with extensive military experience. His name was BJ and he was hired
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04/28/2016
Potato Patch is a private community of cabins. It is a small patch of private land on old mining claims in the middle of Prescott National Forest SE of Prescott, Arizona. It is located off Walker Road and is south of the community of Walker. This is one of the only neighborhoods in the Prescott a
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04/16/2016
I have just joined Realty ONE Group Mountain Desert in Prescott. I went from being Agent #3 at a Brokerage with three agents and NO Systems to one that has SYSTEMS everywhere. The primary one is DotLoop which I do not know yet.Many of my Clients, both Buyers and Sellers, are from out of town and
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03/07/2016
I prepared a summary of the market statistics for the neighborhood of Hidden Valley Ranch in Prescott, Arizona. Here is a graph that shows a summary of my findings.Conclusions: In the area of Prescott, Arizona, single story homes are in demand and sell at higher prices. In any desirable neighbor
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01/24/2016
I live in Hidden Valley Ranch, a great neighborhood in the south part of Prescott, Arizona. This neighborhood was developed by infilling a heavily forested homestead adjoining the Prescott National Forest. The Ponderosa Pines and native Oak trees were left in place and still provide forest cover.
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01/19/2016
The main camera that I use is a Sony DSC-HX200V camera with built-in GPS. It does not have a good RAW format image capture. The lack of picture quality seems to be due to a lossy image capture.Here is a comment I found online that discusses it:All modern Sony cameras use cRAW 2.3 , lossy format
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01/15/2016
I have been frustrated lately with the quality of the color in my photographs. It is high desert in the area of Northern Arizona where many of my listings are. There are times when the grass is green and there is plenty of color. There are other times when the colors are not vivid.Here is a photo
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11/27/2015
