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Five Strategies that Outperform "Fix and Flip" in Today's Real Estate Marketby Michael Sexton You've read the new stories. Record numbers of houses are sitting on the market unsold. Prices have sagged. New housing starts in October 2006 fell 17.9 percent behind October 2005. And to make the situa...

I belong to the International Luxury Society, that is available only to Keller Williams agents. We paid a fee to join and the premise of it is ability to co-list properties. Let's say I have a listing in Florida and I want a wider exposure in order to sell it, so I can share my listing with other...

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into awell. The animal cried piteously for hours asthe farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and thewell needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.He invited all his neighbours to com...

Whenever one of your clients moves, they must all do one thing:  Change their address.  What better service than to help them with the chore?  And what better way to accumulate a lot of names, and make an offer to those people on their "change of address" list?  Kathleen Cope tells us that it wor...

Here is another top of promoting your home to sell. Whenever you have a new listing,  tell your clients that you need to work as a team in order to get their home sold, and that means that they get to help with the marketing. Make up business cards featuring the home on the front and of course yo...

I am having a very strange owners of a rental unit. I think their goal is to drive me to the point of insanity. I have a listing of their 1/1 rental unit which I presume they want to rent out. OK, no brainer. Now when I had other agent bring me a prospective tenant, they started dissecting his pa...

I had quite a surprize today. It was a crazy run-around day and I was ready for a break. By opening my mail box in the office I've discovered cute little envelope with lovely brochure about Marco Island from Colleen. Needless to mention I was so pleasantly surprized, so I dropped myself on a chai...

Pretty soon they will be zooming in the front door and showing us the kitchen! Well, maybe not this year but you can just about believe that this will happen the way these Google folks keep innovating. Using Google Earth you can "fly" to just about any place on this earth and zoom down to tree to...

In the world of time management there are things said to us that we accept as truth and we act accordingly. The problem is sometimes they are not truths. They are lies and as we believe them, they waste our time. Those who speak these lies to us are not bad people at all because you and I are amo...

We all know the saying....."whatever you mind can concieve, it can percieve, you can achieve!" Well, something like that. I believe it's totally true. Having a clear picture in your mind of the end result reduses the frustration and increases your chanses of success. The images you hold in your m...