Joseph J. Chang's (realtynj) Blog

Today Redfin was touting the merits of their agent partner program. They claim to to have 200 partner agents across the country in their program from big brokerages like Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Keller-Williams and John L. Scott. The program is pretty simple. Redfin screens for quality agents...

I've been getting a lot of questions lately about how I get paid and who foots the bill. It never occurred to me that it was an area of confusion, and since it seems like it makes people a little uncomfortable to ask, I thought I'd just go ahead and straighten the issue out. When a homeowner list...

(I am not being paid by docusign for this endorsement). Printing contracts and meeting clients to sign them is time consuming. When I became a Realtor, I wanted to do things and offer services that most agents weren't doing. I use docusign. It's super simple to use, and my clients LOVE it. Have y...

Are you an agent in California? Have you been avoiding learning how to do short sales and become a REO Listing Agent? WHY? Are you still believing that you can somehow survive in real estate without having these skills? A simple suggestion for you…don’t wait another moment. Its not too late for y...

  HOW TO EVALUATE A LISTING AGENT IF YOU ARE REPRESENTING A BUYER     1. What is your experience representing sellers in short sales?    Dealing with a knowledgeable and experienced agent who has successfully closed many short sales is the sine qua non for a successful short sale.    Thousands of...

Ever since I started teaching our members about blogging and SEO I have been overwhelmed by requests to review drafts. In the beginning I had time to do one on one draft reviews for our members before they made their posts public. This was meant to insure our members have correctly applied the me...

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In our modern ever connected world quality cell reception is key.  I need my Crackberry fix constantly so I need good reception.  I live somewhere near the edge of the world or so the lousy cell reception at my house would lead you to believe. I joke constantly I have Sprint "The You Can't Hear M...

I can not believe we are even having to think about writing a post in today's market for Florida agents and the Wellington Florida real estate agents to explain that a short sale is NOT a bank owned property!! But we are!  Nestor asked me to write this because this really just happened and we hop...

A few months ago I wrote that I submitted an application for REALTOR Magazine's 30 UNDER 30. To my pleasant surprise it turns out that I have made it into the top 50. They have changed things up a bit this year and allowing the outside world to vote for this week only to select a Readers' Choice...