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The Listing Addendum Every Seller Must Have And Most Agents Will Never Agree To

  Last week there was a lot of chatter on real estate industry blogs about the Ummel case in Carlsbad, California in which a client has taken her real estate agent to task over alleged misrepresentation and incompetency. As can be expected, many major news media organizations have picked up on the story and it [...]

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What a Real Estate Agent Can Learn From Tivo

  In 1928 the very first television show was broadcast. The Queen’s Messenger, was a modest, 40-minute dramatic production broadcast from Schenectady, New York, and the sound was simulcast on radio station WGY.

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What’s In and What’s Out For 2008

  I have to say that every once in a while I find myself picking up one of those magazines you see on the rack just as you are about to checkout in the grocery lines. Whether it be the one about another Elvis sighting, or the one about which celebrity is fat now, or [...]

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Uh Oh….Now The Games Are Truly Beginning!

In what is undoubtedly the first of many to come, real estate agents are now going to begin getting sued for their involvement in real estate transactions. Nothing else, will hasten the demise of the real estate agent than lawsuits being levied against them. The once impenetrable feeling of hiding behind an ambiguous listing agreement [...]

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Five Changes the Real Estate Industry Needs To Make Immediately

  “We are stuck in the dark ages, I have great confidence that we will have the best record company in the industry, but the reality is, in today’s world, we might have the best dinosaur. Until a new model is agreed upon and rolling, we can be the best at the existing paradigm, but [...]

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