In the main, the homes that I have looked at with buyer clients in the past few months have shoddy workmanship and are horribly overpriced. These flaws are apparently being overlooked by buyers who find themselves in the middle of a market that has very little product. In other words, buyer
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05/28/2015
There are some rules of real estate decorum that I wish hadn't washed away. Here's one. For many years, when an agent took an offer on a property, it was all but written in blood and on stone that it was to be expeditiously either accepted or countered or rejected. None of this waiting to see
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05/27/2015
One sure and empirical statement that can be made about the real estate business is that there are always those who figure out ways to trick a transaction into their favor. While not particularly new, here's one of those tricks that has been rediscovered by sellers, and how those sellers are at
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05/26/2015
There are two relatively new practices which I admit that I don't fully understand.Real estate yard signs have been cropping up with riders that say "Coming Soon." I'm not sure what stage of the listing process those Coming Soon houses are in, but no one can find them in the MLS. So I suppose
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05/22/2015
Next summer I will celebrate my fiftieth year of continued service as a licensed Texas real estate broker. And in the main, it is how I've earned the major part of my living, and still do, now as a Keller Williams agent in Dallas. It's interesting how real estate brokerage has allowed itself to
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05/21/2015
OK, here's how it went. Are you ready?I studied real estate courses at University of North Texas when I was there in graduate school. It wasn't that I had any intention of ever being a real estate agent at all. In fact, I was working on being a professor, an English professor. I was enamored w
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05/13/2015
Every Year at Christmas Time I Miss My Friend, Mel Torme By Bill Cherry I’m never sure exactly when it’s going to happen, but every year at sometime during the Christmas season I realize how much I really miss my dear friend, jazz singer Mel Torme.
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12/24/2014
An economists' concept and term that everyone should be aware of and understand, at least by definition, is known as Broken Math. Broken Math refers to the fact that the US national debt has well surpassed the annual Gross Domestic product, resulting in massive deficit spending. That will furt
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08/15/2014
Do you ever wonder how much your personal stubbornness costs you in commissions and other negotiated settlements every year? I suppose the amount primarily depends on our individual personalities. But left unchecked, it can dramatically affect our business. Let me give you an example. It has
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07/12/2014
So how much will you have to save each month to accumulate enough money to be able to retire financially safe, and be able to live un-financially assisted for the remainder of your life? Here's what you'll need to save each month to have about $50,000 per year to spend and with only a margin
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06/14/2014
