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How Not To Sell a House
By Dan Iampieri 10.) Price it higher than what your agent recommends. 9.) Make your home unavailable for showings. 8.) Sell it yourself. 7.) Display family pictures and religious items (Also, consider leaving delinquent IRS statements on coffee table). 6.) Leave your barking dog in a crate in the kitchen. 5.) Leave the toilet seats up. 4.) Smoke in the …
Flickr Proves to be a Gem for Gaining Web Traffic
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Let the Statistics Do the Talking
By Kelly Reark This week, I thought I would share some striking real estate statistics from my small local market area. Gasparilla Island is only a snapshot of what is happening locally, and hopefully what is or will be happening across our state and country. In the first quarter of 2009, only two contracts closed on Gasparilla Island. The second …
Don’t Be a Secret Agent
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The Future of Google, Real Estate: Collaboration
By Nobu Hata Has anyone else started having the “Google” question pop up during their listing presentations? Not your website, nor your blog, or your Facebook page inquiry – the “can you make our home show up in Google?” question. It may be just that my clients tend to be a little more tech-savvy than your average buyer or seller, …
Staying True to the Home Team
By Jeremy Williams You wouldn’t believe how many times I was asked who I wanted to win the Super Bowl last weekend. My response was the Houston Texans. With a look of confusion, one person said, “Yeah, do you not know that Houston Texans are not in the Super Bowl? In fact, they did not even make it to the …
You Never Know Who is Shopping Your Open House
By Heather Soldonia In the current real estate market I have heard both brand new practitioners and veteran brokers express that they are resorting to some basic prospecting strategies and among those is… open houses. When I first began working as a REALTOR® my broker advised me to go to at least 10 open houses “to learn what not to …
Out With the Old and In With the New…
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Taking a Lesson From the Grammys
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