Archive for 'Useless Ramblings' Category
UPS (or Amazon) Calls You For a Delivery
15 November 2007If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So I got a call from Virginia today… which in of itself isn’t terribly unusual since I get lots of out-of-state calls from my web site. This call was an automated message from UPS telling me that they were [...]
Worthless MLS Listing
4 November 2007An agent just posted a listing for nearly $500,000 with no interior photos and both Agent and Public Remarks that read: “sold as-is.” There are room dimensions, but nothing else go from. How worthless!
In this market of record levels of inventory and weak buyer demand, not including additional photos or any agent remarks is simply [...]
Finding Townhomes in the Dark
4 November 2007As the weather turns colder, I’m spending more time with buyers showing them houses in the dark since as of Sunday it gets dark at 5pm. This week I went out and bought a new big flashlight simply because many of the homes I’ve been showing lately have no electricity and my little flashlights just [...]
Agents Becoming Spammers
27 August 2007Yes, the market is slow.
Yes, the showing activity has fallen.
Yes, housing activity is at record highs.
No, agents should not Spam each other for things already in the MLS.
Agents are running scared now with sellers that are very disappointed with showings and general market interest in their homes. They are pushing their agents to “make something [...]
Convincing People Not to Sell
24 July 2007So I’m a Realtor, but I’m really a real estate salesperson. That means I sell real estate. Ok, so what’s the big deal… everyone knows that!
Well, twice in the last week I’ve encouraged prospective sellers not sell. Their situations dictated that there just were not enough compelling reasons to go through all the efforts of [...]
Some clients are tougher than others
20 July 2007Today I was fortunate enough to get a seller of mine closed that I had been working with for a year. Luckily I had teamed up with a favorite peer of mine on the listing so her and I tag-teamed on the different aspects of the pre-listing, listing, contract negotiations and closing. It was probably the most [...]