One of the more fascinating things I am seeing in the residential real estate market is this scary strategy of over improving a home for a neighborhood. New homeowners should be really careful with over improvements. Let’s go over what’s happening and ways to look at your decisions when it comes to home improvements. The […]
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Follow my blog with Bloglovin 1. How’s the residential real estate market in St. Louis? I would say, “it depends”. Are you a home buyer or home seller? On the home buyer side, things are tricky. We have low interest rates, lots of demand, and the supply can be kind of rotten. The typical home
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I am a real estate broker in St. Louis, Missouri. Off the top of my head at any given time, I can safely say I know 20 other real estate agents outside of my office. Are there too many real estate agents? We’ll leave that discussion for another day. Even in my own circle, I
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This week saw the announcement that Amazon had partnered with veteran residential real estate brand holding company Realogy. That means Amazon is getting into real estate, or are they? Based on the press, it looks more like Amazon is using it’s platform to get more of their products into the homes of current Amazon fans.
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I see something about millennials at least once a week. Millennials are selfish, Millennials don’t work hard, etc. If you are in real estate sales, I urge you to stop with these awful generalizations. It’s not good business practice to take an entire generation and say that you can’t work with them. I’m actually surprised
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Owning and managing a real estate brokerage in St. Louis isn’t always perfect bliss. There are days that are absolutely miserable. Still, we persevere. We often talk about baseball being a game of failure, and real estate sales are definitely in the same category. In baseball, if you are batting .300, that’s considered good. In
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I was working on my lawn one Sunday. A few houses down, there was an open house. It was the neighborhood fix and flip. I wasn’t the listing agent on the property, and that’s OK. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it’s where an investor buys a home, makes repairs and stylish updates, and
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While a career in real estate can be quite enjoyable, there are certain times when you know that you are actually doing a job and it isn’t fun. One of those times is when you have to give bad real estate news to your clients during a deal. Since I list homes for sellers and
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I’ve spent some time working in different real estate brokerages before I started Deerwood Realty. There is a lot of smoke and mirrors in real estate sales. And, I’d just gotten tired of trying to figure out which game was being played. What type of real estate brokerage do you want to work in? The
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I’ve written before about how much real estate agents appreciate referrals. I would say that most agents rely on referrals more than any other source of leads. Do you know how to help your real estate agent with a referral? After all, who would refer someone to their friend, associate, or family member who is
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