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2014
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I've been doing a word of the day campaign, but that will be on hold for today. Today, I set ou to show a dozen homes (which is much much more than I ever agree to). We ended up seeing 6 homes. 6 doors. Client is ready. They are getting close to desperate, job relocation; first home fell apart a...
12/10/2014
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Today was my Toastmasters Meeting, and I was responsible for the word of the day. I'll get to that later this week; however, that allowed me to post on a word that had been in my sphere all day Monday, that being "Control". That post got some feedback, some of which felt this was a negative wor...
12/09/2014
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There were a few times today when I was speaking with clients, and I used the word "Control" I tend to look at steps in a transaction as who is in control? what is the cost of control? what is the cost of giving up control? Why do I care? Because I am somewhat obsessed with knowing my options, ...
12/08/2014
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All the things you hear about this "neighborhood", well, that's really just one building at the far corner. The rest of the area is a big village with lots of wonderful people. I caught my neighbors today putting up their tree. They've been here 5-6 years or so, and this is an annual tradition....
12/07/2014
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Someone reached out to me today and was marketing ReferralMaker, the Buffini product. I like the Buffini products, but have stepped aside. It wouldn't be foolish of me to consider jumping back in for 2015. Just coming to realize that I should use ActiveRain to research this, but from what I see, ...
12/05/2014
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We all want to do our clients right; for me, it's almost like a game. The way to score points is to ensure every client gets the home they want. I get 1 point per happy client. Whether a buyer, a seller, a landlord, a tenant, whether $100k or $1.6m. 1 point = 1 point; sometimes that works well, ...
12/04/2014
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A few weeks ago, our MLS started allowing "Coming Soon" as a status. The biggest difference that I can see is that a home listed as "Coming Soon" is visible to all the other realtors in the MLS, as well as any clients that these realtors have as subscribers in their mls feeds. The home is NOT vi...
12/03/2014
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Do you wrestle with this scale? I was speaking with another agent today, and we've been in discussion for 2 weeks or so. The operative word being "discussion". I've sent an offer, but it's not to his seller's liking and they want a better one. My buyer had nudged up a bit, but not to where ...
12/02/2014
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