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Show 3 houses,.. 1.5 hours,.. go over a contract,.. 1 hour,... attend the Inspection,.. 2 hours,.. go to closing,.. 45 minutes,.. get a big check!! 5 hours, 15 minutes,.. $10,000 commission,... or $5,000 That's nearly $1000 an hour!!! All of us are aware of the Real Estate Agent Boom that we have...
11/17/2008
NAR has posted this in response to the outcry already beginning in the Realtor community,.. http://www.realtor.org/rmodaily.nsf/pages/News2008111301 They are stating that indeed a property must be listed on an MLS in order to find it's way onto Realtor.com and the forsalebyowner.coms statements w...
11/14/2008
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The department of Justice, Anti-Trust division did indeed bring charges against NAR and NAR did settle. To See the actual wording of the doj click this link. http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/May/nar-final-judgment.pdf The actual verbiage of the judgment appears to be limited to brokers and their ...
11/13/2008
This just in,... For Sale By Owners now able to post their listings on Realtor.com. Maybe I have it wrong,.. maybe I am just a poor sport who thinks that what I pay for, I should be able to benefit from,.. maybe it is too much for me to expect that the NAR was created to protect my interests as a...
11/13/2008
If you value your freedom, thank the men and women who have sacrificed to make that freedom yours!! Let us also NOT forget the families left behind in times of war, or conflict,.. daughters who have sacrificed their Dad's or Mom's, Sons who may never get to know what fishing with Dad is Like, or ...
11/11/2008
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The marketing that I see other "Real Estate Professionals" do is amazing. How many times have you pulled a flyer out of a box, only to find the MLS listing in the box,.. or one photo,.. typically bad,.. included in the MLS. Our system at the Pikes Peak Multiple Listing Service even allows all the...
11/10/2008
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I know that I am tempted at times to fall into "The Sky is Falling" type of mentality,.. after all,.. it is everywhere. One group of people seem to think that Obama is the great new hope,.. others are inundated with e-mails stating that he is the anti-christ himself. How will this new administrat...
11/10/2008
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Everything that had been made with plastics, was evaporating. I watched in dismay as everything around me disintegrated into blobs. The toaster fell apart, the dash of my car, computers, electricity, everything around me in shambles. I was petrified,.... I awoke and was reminded of how much techn...
11/07/2008
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Short Sales, Foreclosues at an all time high, The Bail Out, The Stock Market Plung,.. It seems that it doesn't matter where we turn,.. the sky is falling and Chicken Little is running around yelling at the top of his lungs,.. I Told You So!! Sometimes the news can get te better of us,.. and we wa...
10/10/2008