Early last week, I got a call from a friend of a friend who was interested in a home he saw on his way to work. He asked me to show it to him, and I agreed. We’d met a few times before, so I knew of this person and I’ll usually show a home […]
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I met a very nice woman the other day. We got to talking about what she did for a living and she worked in tech. She asked me what I did, and I told her that I was a real estate broker. Without hesitation, she said, “My parents were real estate agents; I knew that
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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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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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The talk around the dinner table was interesting. It started like this, “You’re a real estate broker, I got a postcard with a picture of my house in the mail, how is that legal?” I said, “They used Google maps.” Someone else asked, “You mean they didn’t actually stand outside of my home and take
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The other day I was driving down Gravois in Affton when I saw a company with a name that really caught my attention. The reason why is that it was a terrible name for the type of business that the company did. It got me thinking about real estate brokerages and the names that they
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After spending more than a decade in residential real estate sales, I can say for certain that some real estate agents aren’t worth the drama in a brokerage. I’ve written about real estate agents being jerks to their clients, but they can really be miserable in a real estate brokerage. Here are some of the
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A few weeks ago, I needed to refer one of my clients to a real estate agent. My client was looking to move to South Florida, which is a very competitive market. I didn’t personally know any agents down there, but as a real estate broker, I have resources available to me that allow me
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The market for home sales in St. Louis County continues to grow at a slow but steady rate, with the exception of one particularly hot area: Glendale, where buyers are snapping up properties faster than ever. Real estate professionals look at many different metrics when deciding how “hot” a particular market is, or whether the
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