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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices The Preferred Realty
RECENT BLOG POSTS
5 Things I learned at Blogger's Club   So, I had this idea - the funny thing is I had know idea it would work.  A few of us from the DC area (like Pat Kennedy, Jim Downing, and Derek Massey) got together for lunch at my office to chat about blogging, Active Rain, tweeting, et al.  I thought it w...
03/26/2009
Hi Everyone: I’m excited so I hope you don’t mind me sharing. Realtor Magazine (yes, the actual print version) published me in their April Issue.  The title is, “Working With Generations X and Y: 5 Ways to Recruit and Retain”.   Now, the interesting thing (and I did not know this) is the Magazin...
03/25/2009
“Growing up is hard to,” someone somewhere said, sometime ago.  Didn’t they? Two years ago I began a journey - to take an underachieving office and rebuild it into something, well - special.  Over time, we have made amazing strides towards the vision in my head of what we should be.  We have bee...
03/21/2009
JUST BELIEVE!   If you haven’t noticed, something just happened - the market has turned!  Last month, my office outperformed last year by 45%, and this month we are actually seeing multiple offers on some of our listings.I know what you are thinking - is this a dream?  Am I on some kind of hallu...
03/16/2009
This is an outstanding piece.  I hope you enjoy it.The world needs another blog about how important it is for agents to build and maintain a positive social media presence like Eskimos need ice.  But, I'm a big fan of technology.  I figure anything that is out there that can help me do my job bet...
03/12/2009
Associated Press, Wed Mar 11, 6:05 pm ET ROCK HILL, S.C. – Police say an 88-year-old client who wanted his down payment back on a deal shot a South Carolina real estate broker. Rock Hill Police Lt. Michael Belk says Richard Blow burst into a Coldwell Banker office in Rock Hill Wednesday and shot...
03/11/2009
  "But you're so YOUNG!" "I have shoes older than you." These are actual quotes I‘ve heard during almost two years as the leader of a real estate office in Washington, DC. I am a 34-year-old Generation X managing associate broker in a major metropolitan area. I lead an office of more than 50 agen...
03/09/2009
The CB Blog Estate   Something happened to me this week that has never happened: an agent leaving my office trashed me on FaceBook.  In other words, I was slimed! Now, I had a good relationship with this agent, and after two years of doing this I have hired agents and lost agents, and I know tha...
02/21/2009
  I am so confused.  Can someone please tell me what, in all that is holy, the Stimulus Package - oops, I mean the American reinvestment plan, will do to help this industry get off the shnide?  I’m seriously loosing it.  Here’s why: 1)  Transparency?  NOT!  Maybe because I am responsible for actu...
02/15/2009
Based on popular demand - I give you the The 7 things Star Wars teaches us about Real Estate.  Enjoy.     1.  Sometimes the little green guys with the big floppy ears know what they’re talking abouThe best part about being open to new ideas is you never know where they are going to come from.  Fo...
02/05/2009
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