Category: Marketing
In today’s market, it’s pretty easy for a seller to find themselves struggling to sell their home, stuck on the market with no bites from buyers. Nothing is worse than the sick feeling that comes from having gone just about as low as you can go on price without turning your transaction into a [...]
Recently a Realtor® partner had to fire a Seller; no matter how they delivered the suggestions as a real estate professional, the Seller just would not listen. The Realtor® was contacted by the Seller and asked if they would list her house. The Realtor® knew from office associates this Seller was pretty eccentric so they took on the [...]
When selling your home, the goal is to sell it quickly for the highest price while investing as little as possible in renovations. With a limited budget and a little effort, you can greatly increase your home’s appeal by focusing on what prospective buyers can see on their first visit. The experts at BuyOwner.com offer [...]
Five Features to Highlight When Marketing Your Home for Sale this Summer According to a recent survey by ZipRealty, there are some fairly distinctive “must-haves” and “deal-breakers” for home buyers in the current market. For sellers trying to compete in this tough housing market, these findings can help emphasize some of the best features in [...]
Tips on How to Fix Your House Up to Sell With the summer buying and selling season just around the corner, now is the time to think about how you can create a lasting first impression with potential buyers. Here are 8 simple tips that will help your home stand out from the crowd. Open [...]
Recently listing details from the MLS have almost killed a few deals due to the puffery used by Realtors in an attempt to make their less than perfect listing more attractive to potential Buyers. These challenges can be easily overcome if the real estate agent community were more active in policing the Multiple Listing Services. [...]
Americans’ cell phone usage soars American mobile phone users are talking, texting and surfing the Web more than ever, according to new data from CTIA, the association for the U.S. wireless industry. The CTIA’s latest semi-annual industry survey showed that in the last half of 2009, consumers used more than 1.1 trillion minutes, up 38 [...]
Recently I had a conversation with one of my Realtor partners after he was fired after one of his listings didn’t sell. It isn’t that he’s a bad Realtor, or that the home was was in poor condition or in an undesirable neighborhood. It simply didn’t sell because the owner of the property didn’t listen [...]
I have had many of my Realtor partners ask me what they can do to make their next open house productive and a winner. Having worked on the other side of the fence there’s nothing more frustrating than working an open house and watching potential clients walk away. I spend at least one weekend day [...]
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Average Home Prices Slip in Coachella Valley
I’ve been reading a lot of information lately about our current market conditions from other REALTORS® who are claiming an increase is sales price and number of homes sold. I would scratch my head and ask where they were getting their numbers. Turns out their numbers are coming from national statistics. Real estate sales are [...]
Mortgage Debt Tax Relief Program Ending Soon
The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 the IRS would not come after you for your taxable amount if you had an upside-down unpaid principle as a result of loan modification, short sale or foreclosure depending on your tax bracket, let’s say you were $100,000 short on your mortgage you could be responsible for as [...]
Is your REALTOR® connected? No, I don’t mean in the MobWives fashion, if that’s what you thought, you’re watching too much reality TV. As an active Palm Springs REALTOR® I believe it’s important to take advantage of the technology available to today’s real estate professional. Everything that required an agent to go back to the [...]
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