About 7 months ago I got a call from a potential client who asked me to list his home for sale in St. Louis. While it isn’t odd to get a call to list a home in my line of work, it was odd that he asked me to list it when I hadn’t even […]
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If you were to choose a real estate agent to sell your house, would you choose to list with a national franchise real estate brokerage or a local, independent brokerage? It’s likely that your decision isn’t completely based on this question. You’ll probably choose someone you know, someone your friend or family member used, maybe
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I recently overheard some people talking about how their listing agent was wonderful. They said that their listing agent was wonderful because they were able to sell the home above the asking price and the house was only on the market for one day. That got me to thinking. How do you judge a good
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I was talking to a friend of a friend the other day about a listing that she didn’t get. Unfortunately, for the most part, you never quite know why you didn’t get a listing until you see it listed by someone else. This was a little different because they had stayed friends during the process.
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Over the years, it seems like we’ve lost local level reporting on a national scale. I’m frequently reminded of this when I see a headline like this one. “Mayor of St. Louis Suburb Charged In Election Fraud Case.” If you aren’t from St. Louis, you probably don’t realize that there is a St. Louis City
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The real estate sales game is full of failure. It’s kind of like baseball, where you used to be considered a pretty good player if your batting average was .300 . You aren’t going to list every house where there is an opportunity. Losing the opportunity to list a house for sale can really mess
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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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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
You’ve decided that you are going to buy a new home. Congratulations! Let the house hunting journey begin! Have you applied for a mortgage pre-approval? Settled on an area? What about price? Did you see how price was the third question? When searching for homes for sale in St. Louis, only use asking price as
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A while back, Google determined that it would value content from “experts” in whatever field they were writing about higher than something written by a non-expert. Of course, my first step was to try and equate that to my real estate brokerage in St. Louis and real estate marketing in general. What is a real
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