As a long time real estate agent, I’ve probably looked at more than a million listings online. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how a real estate agent gets by with not having professional photos taken of their listings. It’s 2019: We’ve had digital photography for 20 years! What is the hang-up? […]
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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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The other day my wife and I made a Starbucks run. While we were waiting for our drinks, there was this obnoxious fellow screaming business jargon into the air while letting everyone know that he had Apple Air Pods. It got me to thinking about Deerwood Realty and how we sell houses with our words.
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I can remember the first time I was just starting a home search. So many people were telling me what to do, what not to do, it was very confusing. On top of that, I really needed to move. I didn’t have the luxury of waiting for a home purchase, I needed something quick. If
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As the years go by on my real estate career, I’ve had to be conscious of the fact that just because I’ve been through the ups and downs of buying a house time and time again, my buyers haven’t. To a first-time home buyer, every step is new and exciting part of their journey to
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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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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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