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Are your loan commitments being lost to the fear factor?

There has been so many questions regarding whether or not an agent is worth a 6% commission.

I recently took the continuing education course required by NAR called “The Code of Ethics”. I was not happy about taking it and my comments went more like “you can’t teach ethics. Either you have them or you don’t.”

Depending on who’s numbers you look at 65-90% of buyers begin their real estate search on the internet. If that is the case, how are you keeping your listing from blending in? What do you tell your client you are going to do to set their property apart from the other listings? Let me tell [...]

  The graveyards are full of indispensable men. -Charles De Gaulle

For those who know me, I am an avid hunter. Upland birds are my main distraction. Pheasants, chuckers and quail are all available at the preserve I frequent. Some brokers take there clients golfing, mine get to go hunting. When hunting upland birds a good bird dog is a must. There are two main classes [...]

Things are slow, nobody is doing anything and the phones are dead. I think I’ll take off and uh, work from home, i.e.watch Oprah, for the rest of the day. I hear that from agents every day.

This week New York State’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo signed what will probably become a model for other states.

From the first time my Dad let me run the lawn mower I was hooked. There is something about feeling the sun on your back and scent of the fresh cut grass that relaxes me. Then when the job is done, to just sit back and survey with pride the finished lawn, gives me a [...]

 This week I bought a nice little ranch home. It has not been my biggest deal but it will make me a tidy little profit and it gave me an education at the same time. Here is how it went. This was a bank owned property that the listing agent had a pre-signed contract done [...]