So, here's the thing. Unlike beautiful scenery, artwork, sculptures and tasty looking food photos which are pretty much ageless, I'm about to embark on the scariest thing in real estate, for me anyway. OMG, I need a new photo of myself. Arghh.Years ago, I made the wise decision to incorporate o
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05/09/2024
One of the reasons my AR participation had slowed way down was the computer at home would sometimes work, sometimes not. When I needed to work from home, I developed a work around the issues by using harsh language and just abruptly shutting the computer down. Then, I'd give it time to consider
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06/21/2019
All of a sudden I've realized that I've been in real estate for a good while and I don't actually remember being a really green agent for very long. I'm sure I made mistakes and was awkward for a while with searching, qualifying, etc but I really hope I was never rude to another agent! Brand new
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06/13/2019
So, nothing spurs a little blog activity like nuisance behavior. There have always been agents wanting to "float" a verbal. So much easier, right? Nope. Here's what happens when a buyer insists that their agent submit a verbal offer. As the listing agent, I'm going to present the offer to t
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06/10/2019
Again...yes, I'm back again, to posting. It won't be elegant with photos, graphics and fancy fonts...not yet but let's go. What did it take this time? How about a little irritation and frustration with a couple of transactions over the last few months. Who gets hurt? Our clients! Our buyers
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06/01/2019
This morning, here near the Great Smoky Mountains in Western North Carolina, we all woke up to temperatures in the 40s! We are almost at the end of June...and the temperature in Balsam was 49. A friend on facebook was at Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the tempera
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06/26/2017
Donna Quinlan ... a Realtor in the Boston area, has laid out an excellent post showing the very simple steps to becoming a successful real estate agent. The main thing to know for all the newbie baby agents is that there are no magic pills, beans, tricks or self-help series of books or recordin
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06/22/2017
While I was perusing the ActiveRain Q&A section, I noticed that Kelyn Mills posted the question asking if buyer agents give the Home Inspection Report to sellers. So many responses! Different agents have different opinions (big surprise there) but what was really interesting in this particular
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06/21/2017
When I first got my real estate license it came as a complete surprise that the profession of real estate is actually stepping from one rabbit hole into another and another and another. I've gotten used to the rabbit holes and have even learned to appreciate them since they absolutely keep my wa
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06/20/2017
So...again with the week or so absence from blogging? What's my excuse this time? Easy...working for the mantra "Fortune Smiles On Those Who Work Their Bottoms Off". The last couple of months have been fraught with bottom working for sure. All of the real estate components at play - buyers, s
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06/19/2017