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Midday Friday, I was informed that an expected closing had fallen. One of my associates, the listing agent, received a call from the buyer’s agent with the very sad news that the buyer had been laid off from his job this morning, an hour after his wife had completed the final walk through for the...
11/24/2008
To say your credit history & score is HUGE these days may be a borderline understatement.  For purposes of my experience, I'll concentrate on how credit relates to getting a mortgage to buy a home or trying to refinance the one you currently own. Talking about credit is about as much fun as chewi...
11/24/2008
Integrity Without Compromise In·teg·ri·ty What does integrity mean to you?  What does it mean for you in your business?  Moreover, what does your integrity mean to your clients?   The definition of integrity is really quite simple--firm adherence to a code of especially moral values. Integrity i...
11/24/2008
Simultaneously, buying and selling a home can be a tricky proposition, especially in the current "Buyer's Market."  Kinda like "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"   Do you find the home you want to buy and then put your home up for sale or do you put your home on the market before you sta...
11/24/2008
Listing success in Northern Liberties Have you ever really thought that you would be representing a seller to find out that they listed with someone else ?  Or it was a competitive situation and the seller chose to list with a different realtor ?  In those cases, what do you do ? I know it is ver...
11/24/2008
Mike Hughes Just Joined Twitter.com Okay, I'm becoming fully immersed in social networking - or at least it feels that way.  Needless to say, as a Mike Ferry trained agent, my coach would strangle me if he knew how much time I'm spending online - rather than on the phone. J Consequently, my most ...
11/22/2008
So, I've been playing with the idea of delegating some of the "listing agent activities" to the buyer agent.  First, here is my thought process.  Buyer agency is now very popular and greatly benefits the buyers, sellers and listing agents.  However, since this evolution, many of the "traditional"...
11/22/2008
I sometimes wonder is Buyers' agent actually explain things to their buyers in terms that they'll understand.  If they do, why do so many things happen that don't make sense. My latest example is this:  I have a listing under contract. The buyer did their inspections and presented an amendment to...
11/21/2008
Haven’t we all been told that the ones who succeed are aggressive and pushy? Isn’t this why so many people are scared of marketing themselves? In my 30 years of coaching people, I have found that almost everyone has an aversive reaction to marketing. In other words, they would rather do anything ...
11/21/2008
(First, sorry for my latency in posting of late. Was away with my wife Amie on the trip of a lifetime to NYC! Travels are over; getting back to business.) One of the questions I'm getting A LOT is "What's up with Twitter?" and "How do I use Twitter for business?" Let me say at the outset it is an...
11/19/2008
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