Mark Mangione's (mayo100461) Blog

Great Analogy for Sellers with unreal expectations on pricing their homeSay you'd purchased IBM stock for $100 per share, and you wanted to sell it for $140 per share because you needed the money, but the market for IBM stock at that time was only $110 per share. Do you think someone would pay yo...

Recently my son Ryan got a baseball scholarship to one of the top Jr Colleges in baseball. Walter State in Tennessee. He was told by several pro scouts to attend for 2 years and after 2 years he would be drafted to play professional baseball. Wow, exactly what a dad could ask for. All the hard wo...

As the temperature heats up, you can bet the housing market is sure to do the same.  You can also bet the homes that owners keep in prime condition for showings bring higher offers than homes that lack the same attention to detail. You might have already suggested to home sellers to paint their h...

Buyers are deeply irrational beings. Most buyers believe their decisions are the end result of a sensible, step-by-step process. Buyers buy with their hearts first. When money changes hands, the primitive, emotional part of the brain calls the shots. Buyers buy with their heads second. Logic come...

My mother like most mothers are very special in all ways. If it wasn't for good old mom I would be here today. The days she spent waiting up until the wee hours for me to get home from a party or a date.The umpteen thousand meals she prepared for me.Who knows how many diapers she had to change......

A segment on real estate will air on CBS this Sunday at 7 pm.  Here is what NAR expects in the report.  The segment by Leslie Stahl will focus on the impact of the internet on the brokerage business and focus on the emergence of "Internet" business models and contrast them with "traditional" full...

As I prepare a Realtor open house at one of my listing, I can't help but wonder if all this work that I have to do will really pay off. Most of the open houses that I do usally brings out all the prize hunting, free lunch looking agents.It does however please my sellers and it gets positive and n...

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Well the listing appt is over, and chalk one up for the good guys. Not only did I list for full commission but I will be giving someone from AR a referral. Yeeee Haaaaaa.After the sale of his home he plans on moving back home to Minnesota. He will rent for 6 months and then he will be ready to bu...

I have a listing appointment with my barber. He has hinted around that he would love it if I could reduce my commission because he needs to make more money on the sale of his home. I've been going to him for years and think he is a great barber and a super nice guy. I really feel awkward going be...