About a month ago, I got a call from a friend of a friend. He asked if I could show him a house that caught his attention. I asked him if he was in the market for a new home and he told me that he was just starting his search. He said that he […]
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In 2015 I was sitting in a coffee shop in Affton talking with a friend of mine. I told him that I was convinced that my phone was spying on me. The reason I said this was that it seemed like whenever I thought of something, an ad for it would pop up on my
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For years, I made the mistake of thinking that I owned a small business. I’m not blaming anyone for the misunderstanding; there are no nefarious players that I know of. What do you think when you think “small business”? Do you think of that little mom and pop store on the corner of your block?
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Every couple of weeks, we’ll get an email in the office along the lines of this. Dear Jerk Real Estate Broker, we bought our home yesterday afternoon and the listing still shows up on your website. Please remove it immediately or we will file a complaint with the BBB. I don’t exactly know what the
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We’re going to try a little something different today. Here are some of the things I hear or read on a regular basis when either looking at a listing with my buyers or when I’m getting ready to list a house for my sellers. It’s going to go like this, I’ll give you what I
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I enjoy working with homebuyers. A motivated homebuyer is a wonderful thing because they are really making an effort to buy. As my job is to help buyers find the home of their dreams, I’m always ready to help. Said another way, when I am going to show a home to a prospective buyer, I
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“The sellers have accepted your offer” “There are multiple offers for your property above asking price.” “Loan contingency has passed; we are clear to close” “The occupancy inspection passed” These are just some of the things I am lucky enough to say to my clients. Giving my real estate clients good news is one of
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My social media was full of some new announcement. Apparently, the XFL was announcing team names. Since I knew St. Louis had a team, I was pretty interested in learning the team name. I figured that it would be something related to the river, or The Arch, or something that forever tied the team to
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When you think of starting a home search where do you first turn? It’s probably Zillow.com When you want to figure out what your awful neighbor is trying to sell his house for, where do you look first? Again, it’s probably Zillow.com. Finally, when you want to know what dream home is selling for in
I’ve previously written about my skepticism of online real estate reviews. The main problem I have with online reviews is that it’s a spot where large corporations can easily game the system and at the same time, publish smaller organizations. Today, I wanted to demonstrate how scale really matters with online reviews. For example, if
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