I’ve been writing a residential real estate blog for about a year. There have been some great blogs, and there have been some blogs where I cringe when I read them now. Within the real estate space, there are many reasons to blog. I think I will save that for another post by itself, but […]
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Have you ever wondered what a typical real estate agent sees in their email every day? If you did, make sure you ad property blasts to your list. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t get at least 4 emails from agents in town telling me about their great listing and how
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Remember the term “Enemy Combatant?” This is a description of someone who is fighting against a country without a uniform. This became an issue when there were people trying to kill Americans around the world not in accordance with the Geneva Convention, the rules for armed conflict, if you will. What does the Geneva Convention
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Recently, I was representing a buyer for a property in South County. It was a very nice house, and there had been a lot of interest in the home when it was listed for sale. While there weren’t multiple offers at the time our offer was accepted, there was a backup contract on the property
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In working with all sorts of people as they navigate their way through the real estate market, I’ve often thought about that question. I see it in a couple of different ways, and I’ll explain it below. Buying a house is a product. So, a lot of times I’ll be talking with people who think
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I’ve openly pondered where agents go. They start off in the business, sell a few houses, then disappear. The numbers are striking. In a post by Tom Ferry, a well-known real estate coach, he cites a NAR statistic that 87% of real estate agents fail within the first five years. There are a ton of
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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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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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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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