Rocky Mountain Realty Company, Colorado Springs

I have been receiving some offers on my listings lately that seem to have strong pre-qual letters attached, but as we progress through the transaction, I find that many deals are falling apart due to the lender's loss of programs, stricter underwriting guidelines, and general change in program gu...

Ok...Rant, Rant, Rant...THREE of my agents and MYSELF have offers out there. Four of us! We EACH have at least one offer out there. Dianne actually has about three. We deal with a lot of bank repos here in the Colorado Springs market, so we are having to deal with lots of Asset Managers. One of t...

Hi There! I'm going to post this to the Christian group, but I don't know if it will post in the general section as well...anyway, like many people, I try to read the "Proverb of the day" since there are 31 of them and they are for gaining wisdom and understanding! The Bible always has truth and ...

Recently, I had an ugly scenario happen with one of my junior agents. She was dealing with an unscrupulous Broker who decided to change compensation offered to the Selling Broker AFTER the parties had negotiated back and forth and reached a verbal agreement.  That other agent has egg on her face,...

This post was inspired by another one that I just answered. I was just thinking about how funny it is when you call another office for showing instructions and they say things like. "Knock, wipe your feet, leave a card and don't forget to call on Sparky the Dog as you enter so that he won't be ne...

I have been hearing quite a bit from colleagues lately that they are "really busy" and so am I. However, I'd be lying if I didn't say that the busy-ness is not necessarily my normal quota of productivity. I find that I am writing more offers and getting less contracts. That I am working more hour...

  Haven't Seen This Lady At Any Open Houses Lately!!!They call it "reality tv" when you see these big investors going around and buying property at 50% and selling it at the open house, for full price or more, just a few short weeks after purchase. That's NOT reality. But this is...I just wrote a...

I guess this is my day to vent. Except for one, most of my posts today seem to be about annoying things, so while I'm on the subject, I figured I'd throw this one in for free!                                                                        Time to pay the Dr.!!!We all know that if we miss ...

                                                 How many of you with children or nieces and nephews or friends that have children have heard it or said it? "Enough with that video game already!" I was just reading a post by another member who was cheefully joking about her new AR addiction when ...

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about my favorite lender. I didn't mention his name because I work with several different referral lenders who offer products and services that may suit the needs of a particular client better than another. In addition to that, let's just say it's wisdom not to keep ...