I’ve been watching a real estate agent list a ton of houses in University City for the past few years. That isn’t really all that unusual; in the office we run monthly real estate agent and real estate brokerage reports on every community in the St. Louis area. This agent confuses me though because of […]
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Paul and Judy Anderson were looking to buy their first home in St. Louis. They wanted to do it right. When they started looking for agents, it seemed like everyone they talked to had a brother, cousin, or uncle in real estate. “How can we possibly choose the best real estate agent for our needs?”
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In St. Louis, it’s hard enough to get real estate buyers and sellers to work with you. Imagine how difficult it is when you have to move on from a buyer client! This is the situation I found myself in last week and I wanted to try to explain my decision for the benefit of
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When I was a kid, we’d watch cartoons. One of the things that made me laugh was when some character would step on a rake. I don’t know if this was something people did in real life and it was so funny they made a reference to it in cartoons, or if someone just made
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I saw an article the other day about the real estate industry that really caught my eye. It was about a lawsuit that was filed against Realtors, and the information it contained was just totally wrong. I don’t think it was intentional, but if this sort of thing is happening in other industries, we are
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I was driving down Lindbergh the other day and I noticed a real estate brokerage that had been there forever suddenly wasn’t there anymore. It was kind of a surprise to me, because I’d been in that office before. It was really nice, with a large area in the front to meet with potential clients,
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I had coffee this past weekend with a wonderful couple looking to buy their first home together. They had done their research; they looked online as best as they could to look for questions to ask a pool of three potential buyer’s agents. Because it is somewhat unusual for new home buyers to actually take
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Earlier in the week I was watching a show on television. It was a debate of sorts between two people involved in obesity science. I really don’t have an opinion on obesity science, but one of the panelists left me so angry and annoyed, I am on the side of the other guy, and I
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As I think about my time in Real Estate and my time on earth, one question that has come up over and over again is “What is REALLY within your control?” I’ve produced some scenarios below, and what I think about if they are really in my control as a real estate agent or if
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Joe Girard passed away at age 90 on February 28,2019. I suspect that a lot of you reading this have no idea who Joe Girard is, and that’s OK. He held the Guinness Book of World Records for most car sales in one year (1,425). I didn’t know him personally, only through one of his
