Normally, I have time to do a lot of reading here on Activerain and then entering many many comments. However, lately my time has vanished for these activities. We have been hearing on TV that the real estate business is "bad"!They must be talking about markets in other areas! My business has sk
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03/31/2008
Yesterday I did a post asking California agents to comment about their market. In that post , Matthew Zgonc stated that the only area higher priced is Florida. I have been researching Florida and noticed that the coastal areas appear to be hardest hit by the current downturn.I will ask the Florid
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03/29/2008
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post discussing the drop out rate of Realtors here in my area. I heard from Realtors from across the country.Now, I would love to hear from primarily California Realtors about their individual markets. Please tell me what your market was like 1 year ago, 6 months
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03/28/2008
After inviting my friend Jimmy Cooper(competitor of mine in Dyersburg) to Activerain, I asked myself the question, "Why did I invite my competition to Activerain"? Many of you here are asking this same question. Here are a few reasons I invited Jimmy. First of all, there is enough business to go
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03/26/2008
I have been keeping an eye on the number of real estate agents in our MLS. We ended the year last year with 147 agents but at renewal time only had 105. I venture to say that today that number has dropped even more. Since January, sales here have dropped off 30-40% in our MLS(mainly because of th
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03/24/2008
I had a great phone conversation with Brad Andersohn on Friday. I called him to discuss our upcoming training session. He is just as enthusiastic on the phone as he is in his many posts and comments. After discussing his transition to becoming part of the Activerain team, we discussed just briefl
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03/23/2008
Bob Stewart take note; my predictions are about to come true concerning membership in Activerain. Several weeks ago I did a post with my predictions concerning the growth for Activerain.Bob, if you, Brad and the programmers can just keep the Activerain servers up for "most of the time", we will b
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03/21/2008
Just wanted to introduce my latest invite, Jimmy Cooper to Activerain. Jimmy is a competitor of mine here in Dyersburg,Tennessee. Jimmy and I have been friends forever and his speciality is commercial properties.Please let Jimmy know that he is welcome here on Activerain and there is a wealth of
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03/21/2008
Just a few days ago I wrote a post titled, "Should Activerain Hire a Trainer?" Well the response was incredible to say the least. I am not sure what Bob Stewart and Activerain have decided but I am making plans!Normally, my office has a weekly sales/training meeting each and every week. I introdu
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03/17/2008
Yesterday, I wrote a post about a special training class I am planning to have in a couple of weeks. After a few comments received, it dawned on me, "Why not get someone like Brad Andersohn in to teach the class"? I was really only dreaming because if you follow what's going on here on Activerai
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03/14/2008
