Estate Homes of Ocala Florida

    Somewhere this past week while "Stumbling" I read an article that reported that 90% of all blogs on the internet are abandoned. At first I was shocked by the number but then I got to thinking....doesn't this sort of match right up with other numbers that we hear about? 10% of all Agents sell...

The phone rings...you answer it...they want to see 123 Main street in 15 minutes....you POP out of your chair and go show it! That is the Pot Tart Agent defined. Buyers who operate like this often times are not very serious about buying a property with YOU. If they were, they'd come in to your of...

  When is the last time you cleaned up your Database? Or made a backup? Or implemented a protocol so that data going in is consistant and searchable? Do you keep your backups offline?...or on disk?....locked up in a firesafe?...off site? Do you do backups at all????? What happens if your one and...

Referral Fees that suck your business dry....     I just read a post by an Active Rain Agent who had a client that was moving and a couple of weeks after her interview, she was contacted by the relocation company for a 38% referral. Guess this is going to be a rant because I feel her pain. In 15 ...

In the hay day of home purchasing, it seemed if you could fog a mirror you could get approved for a mortgage and get on the path of home ownership. With the world in its current economic flux, countries melting down and the like, we REALTORS and Loan Officers are seeing that things aren't so simp...

I just read this and it is written by an attorney who tells us how to protect ourselves and our credit. This is great information that tells you what steps to take now, in case your wallet or passport ever gets stolen. This is good stuff, so please reblog and pass it on! ATTORNEY'S ADVICE - Read ...

 Real Estate Agents who are still Agents these days are Career Agents. They understand that markets cycle, there are good times and bad and there will be good times again. A Career Agent needs to be plugged into what is happening like never before.  We live in a world that has global economy and ...

Advise your Buyers of today's stumbling blocks to financing in today's market.  Here's a handy list of 10 things you can do to kill your chances of getting a loan today. 1. The house just needs too much work.This applies to REO's, foreclosures, and short sales... sure they're good deal, but the f...

Nows the time to come to Florida- short term or long term....Beaches are still pristine at Siesta Key in Sarasota. Hotel rooms throughout Florida are reported to be as much as 80% empty because of the media exposure about the oil spill. If you need a vacation and who doesn't, there are deals to b...

Since joining Active Rain I have really gotten serious about my marketing efforts and the wealth of information on AR also led me to Linked In. That's the funny thing about this web of information, you start out one place and end up in 50 others...but I'm not complaining. After reading a fair num...