Guaranteed Winning Soft Market Strategies
These are the first two of many Soft Market Strategies. Watch for upcoming articles that will give you winning tools for success in your market.
Let’s get the facts straight. I have looked at the data. In nearly every market across the country sales volume is down significantly. Most markets are off by over 25%. That means there are over 25% less commissions to be earned. The pie is smaller. How can you ensure that you get your piece of it? Read more
It’s All About the Net!
I have a soft spot for FSBO’s. Before I was selling real estate, and I was simply appraising it, my wife and I sold our very first home all by ourselves in West Roxbury, MA. The buyer who ended up purchasing the home told us she had an agent representing her. But considering she found out about the open house from an ad in the Boston Globe, Read more
Is Perception The Truth, Even If It Isn’t?
A Harris poll released in 2007 listed real estate agents along with stock brokers and insurance agents as the least trusted professionals. Once again that old adage is proven true – “one’s perception tends to become their reality.” Read more
40% Or More Of Homes Sold Are Foreclosures Or Distressed Properties!
While actual home sales may have had a modest gain this past month, the gain was bittersweet as it is attributed to the declining prices in many markets across the USA. Read more
Don’t You Just Sometimes Want To Hide The Fact That You’re An NAR Member?
1 million plus members, many of whom do a good enough job on their own being fodder for the media, do you really need to be paying dues to an organization which continues to be the horse’s ass of trade unions? Read more
A Survivor’s Strategy to Thriving in a Tough Market
TV news reports and newspaper articles almost universally tell the same Chicken Little tale: real estate is dead and only an escapee from an insane asylum would dare invest in real estate in the next two years or so. I couldn’t agree more.
Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Bailout Does NOT Include Stockholders!
So let’s get this right. Fannie and Freddie are the benefactors of what is arguably the biggest governmental bailout of all time, but the folks who took stock in these companies and actually invested in these mortgage behemoths, have no place to sit when the music stops. That hardly seems fair. No, forget about fair, it’s flat out insultingly wrong! Read more
Real Estate Business Building Tip Series | Tip #1
The New World Order Interactive Real Estate Business Training Program is about instructing real estate agents as to how to unlock the entrepreneurial power of running and benefiting from a successful real estate business. Read more
The Highway To Market Recovery Is Well Mapped
Residential markets will follow same road, but at different speeds. Anyone who has ever driven a car knows what it feels like to be lost, men included, even if they won’t admit it. People are feeling that same sense of panic today because they are finding themselves in unfamiliar economic territory. Read more |
The Changing Rules of Online Marketing
The MLS, long the crucial center of a healthy, functioning real estate brokerage industry, now finds itself in the center of controversy and a fight for survival in turbulent times. More than just data warehouses, MLS systems are marketplaces for inventory and a proving ground for consumer access to the MLS. Read more
