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Daniel Kennedy in her real estate books, promotes holding open houses and showing residential property to the public.  All I can say is to agree with her, my broker, and past experiences with holding open houses.  I have generated many new clients and customers from this weekend endeavor.  But re...
11/02/2008
Marketing in the commercial real estate market is dull!  Our office covers a wide range of real estate needs:  residential, commercial, land, ranches, resort.  Mainly because of our clientel and where we are located.  But the commercial market is beginning to slow.  I've been looking for more mar...
10/31/2008
Once in a while, when doing your general real estate transaction, the regular ho-hum, non eventual, transaction you hit a glitch in the road.  And then it takes every second of your 7 years of experience to get it to close if at all.  It's when this happens that a remarkable person will sometimes...
10/28/2008
Realtors have a dual role in their industry as the way I see it.  In tough and uneasy times, the good realtors continue doing their best, giving their best to help their community ride the storms of financial turmoil without monetary reward.  And now is that time for realtors to come to the aid o...
10/24/2008
With the number of mortgage brokers, mortgage companies soliciting realtors, how does an agent determine which mortgage company to use, which ones have good service skills and, of course, which ones are just bad to deal with.  I just recently had a mortgage company associate fail to return phone ...
10/21/2008
When I got my Texas real estate license I guess I missed the small print at the bottom of the license which states:  "...you must wear many hats...".  Since I started I have mowed grass, cleaned windows, decorated, cleaned houses, sat with pets, and given advice on a multiple of subjects, and now...
10/12/2008
This past week I received 3 BPO orders from Protek and each one of them disappeared just as quickly as I received them.  The first one I didn't discover for 20 minutes and it went to another vendor. The second one I missed by a mere 7 minutes and the last one I missed by 2 minutes.  How does anyo...
10/05/2008
Finally, ProTech called and offered me my first BPO.  The only trouble was that I had put down an incorrect zip code that was 3 and one half hours away one way and had to turn it down and I had to update my profile.  Just the same, it's a start.  I've called just about every BPO that I've registe...
09/30/2008
6 weeks and no orders yet from 19 BPO companies whom I've signed with.  Clear Capital, eMortgage Logic have responded the quickest and seem to be the most responsible in making sure all my profiles are current.  But no communication from all of the others.  Getting all of the extra paperwork was ...
09/19/2008
We got a new assitant in our office and within a week we are beginning to get back to normal (if there is such a thing).  She's a good one.  Sometimes it's hard, even for agents, to sort a list of priorities and do the right one at the right time and go to the next one.  This assistant we have no...
09/19/2008
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Furthering the real estate industry through communicating ideas and experience, and to eliminate any misconceptions, misrepresentations, expose scams that seems to proliferate in the real estate industry.