Madison Real Estate News and Views

Here's a broker comment line from our local MLS: So here are my questions: Is this statement in the best interest of the Seller?  (A short sale seller I'm told) Are the statements of this broker risky for stating future value? How about the business hours of this brokerage--truly in the clients b...

Ok... so I'm going to vent just a little this morning. I had to travel to Bozeman, MT for a meeting today.  I arrived at the airport 1 hour before the flight was to depart.  This is usually more than enough window of time in my small town airport (Dane County/Madison WI).  My flight was with Delt...

Haven't heard of it?  Well it's a magical tool that allows me to virtually be throughout all of the web 2.0 at 1 time.  It's really a tool that allows you to 1 stop post and autofeed that out to many different sites at once.  From Social Media sites to blogs to Microblogs--all in 1 spot and from...

So here I sit.  In the Sam Adams Pub in the Atlanta airport on a Sunday night.  Yep, for the next few weeks I'm a road warrior.  I don't mind travel.  In fact last year I spent 114 nights in hotel rooms (love the Hilton Honors Points!).  But sometimes looking at the forlorn faces of the weary air...

Since I entered the real estate business in 1989 I quickly learned that success in my business had as much to do with how I was thinking as it did with the daily actions and tools I used in my business.  I constantly sought out trainers and training techniques.  From Mike Ferry's organization for...

After 20 years in this business I hope to never have to live through the period of September 2008 to March 2009 again.  Why do I say that?  Because it was the slowest time in my memory in the real estate industry here in Madison. The good news...I'm still here.  The better news....it seems the m...