Hoping that the snowbirds start coming down to Florida in droves. It has been a slow year here I went 7 months without having a sale. This was the worst year Ive ever seen down here. Hopefully with the snowbirds coming back they will bring some friends with them who are looking to buy some prop
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10/26/2007
Has anyone seen their business pick up this 4th quarter of the year? Everyone was saying that we would probably begin to see a little change in the real estate market in the 4th quarter and then continuing into the 1st quarter of 2008. I was just wondering if any of the other states and realtors
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10/23/2007
How many realtors who consider themselves small spend between 5 & 7,000 dollars in marketing in a year? This article stated that a realtor with a small business should be spending anywhere from 5 thousand to 7 thousand dollars a year on marketing. I believe that if this was the case there would b
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10/23/2007
I have never been meme'd . As a matter of fact I dont even know what it is. I asked about it once before and someone told me that it was a way to ask someone about themselves. Like I said I've never been asked to or ever received a meme'd. If I got one I don't think I would even know what to do w
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10/14/2007
Our board has recently promoted this new program called the Listing Book. You get the basic program for free. The premium program cost you either $99.00 or else its $9.95 a month or about $120.00 a year. Do any other areas in the active rain community use this program. I was wondering what you th
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10/14/2007
I need some help in recruiting new agents to our office. By new I mean they can be veteran agents or new agents right out of real estate school. Our office provides agents with additional training. We also have a good commission split program. Our agents dont pay any of the junk fees. We also sta
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10/12/2007
When I was teaching this was one of the things that I told my students if they take anything from my class this was the most important thing they can take and use throughout their life. First, Identify and prioritize the problem. Second, What are my alternatives or choices. Third, What are the c
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10/08/2007
It doesnt do any good to complain about the real estate market. At my office we are still selling and clsoing properties. They are a lot less than we did in the boom years. But we are still working. In these times you just have to work different. You have to work smarter. Going back to the basics
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10/06/2007
Last year we had a duplex in a prime location that was listed for $389,000. We closed on it today for $240,000 six months ago she turned down an offer of $275,000 for which she cold have kicked herself. But its good that we got it closed. The market is just amazing it is totally a buyers market.
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10/02/2007
You may ask why? One of the reasons why is there is always somebody ready to give you the Monday morning quarterback report on everything you did wrong. One of the sayings that they taught all through the academy in almost every class are the 3 letters CYA. The instructors always said that in an
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10/01/2007
