Xiao-Qing (Shall-Ching) Lu's (xlu) Blog

Home Maintenance Guidelines   Fall Maintenance Reminders: As Fall approaches you can take a few key steps to ensure your home serves you well through the coming months. Please take to check these items in and around your home and attend to any that need maintenance. Clean and test smoke alarms. T...

Tomorrow October 24th is the Magnet School Fair taking place in Henderson, NV. Magnet schools are run by lottery, available to middle schools. Students from across the district may apply to a magnet school/magnet program regardless of the region in which they reside. The purposes of magnet school...

September month Las Vegas home sales are summarized below. * 3,785 sold units single family homes; 400 more units than September 2005. * Medium home price $138,000; a 2% increase from August. * 5,087 new units listed single family homes. * Medium condo prices lowered slightly to $65,720 a drop of...

First time home buyer deadline is fast approaching. Clients without an approved contract right now are not looking at a close date on or before 11/30/09. Cash buyers and conventional buyers are hopeful. Give yourselves 2 more weeks then you need to worry. Or maybe not. My clients who are first ti...

Mastermind $100k club is on Tuesdays. Today our group brainstormed on the Las Vegas real estate market. How it is now a seller's market with multiple offers on each property listed for sale. There is less than 5 months of inventory for desirable neighborhoods. Therefore sellers are dictating sale...

After taking a week off from my real estate business for training in CA I came home refreshed. Instead of an annual goal of earning $150,000 to $200,000 why not make it big? It's the samey effort why not $100,000 a month? Many Realtors have done it and are doing it now. Why not me?  Breaking it d...

Did you notice that Realtors are the least respected profession? Well if it hasn't been noticed before I was reminded of it today. I have a client who is panicking because we wrote 9 offers not one has been accepted. Welcome to the Las Vegas market of the new, the impatient, the disobeying :) Wel...

Tuesdays is my $100,000 club mastermind group with Las Vegas Realtors. 6 people discussing how we are getting our offers accepted in a multiple offer market here in Las Vegas. Below are several suggestions to stand out amongst many other offers received by seller's agent representing the bank. In...

*There is always someone in a weaker market making less money than us. There is someone in a stronger market making more than us. Stay in the business and make your business market proof! *Realtors in Michigan opened escrow for $700, $600 homes. The average sales price in Michigan is $2,000. Yet ...

Today is Tuesday thus my weekly $100,000 club meeting was today. Did you know you can buy membership to www.HouseSeats.com and receive Las Vegas show tickets all year round? Yes everyone this webite is phenomonal. Sign up and tell me what you think. We Realtors can offer show tickets to our favor...