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Ron Tiller | Coldwell Banker Schmidt 2815 Wilson AVE, Grandville MI | 616-648-1794 7338 28th AVE, Hudsonville, MI Lovely wooded acreage with a great 3 BR home in desireable Jenison Schools. 3-4 car garage and extra 20 X 32 barn 3BR/1BA Single Family House offered at $140,000 Year Built 1953 Sq F...

Ron Tiller | Coldwell Banker Schmidt 2815 Wilson AVE, Grandville MI | 616-648-1794 104 32nd ST SW, Wyoming, MI 3BR/1.5BA Single Family House offered at $110,000 Year Built 1950 Sq Footage 1,260 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 1 full, 1 partial Floors 1 Parking 2 Car garage Lot Size 0.2 acres HOA/Maint $0 p...

What a week. It has already been a week of shocking circumstances. The market is down. The market is up. Circumstances. The bailout is sure to pass. The bailout didn't pass. Circumstances. Credit has tightened. Rates are down. Circumstances. Buyers are afraid. Sellers are upside down. Circumstanc...

Yesterday, I talked about lead follow up and I just realized that I didn't finish the story. The best way to develop a habit of making contact and following up is to set aside a specific period each day to contact your leads. I call this time "Happy Hour". Not so much because I enjoy it as the re...

Poor follow up on leads can be the downfall of the best real estate agent. However, I do not believe it is necessary to follow up on all of the leads you create.  In fact it may even be a mistake to try.  You can spend too much time chasing all the leads at the expense of quality time spent on th...

If we are to be successful leaders must learn to build relationships.  It is only through meaningful relationships that we are able to influence others, and receive some of life's richest blessings.  The relationships in our lives should be some of our most prized "belongings." To really build re...

As promised yesterday, , I will share the books that have recently been very helpful, enlightening and educational for me in the recent past. My top 5 are:1. How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie2. How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling by Frank Bettger3. Positi...

     Choose. It is a small but powerful word. Who and what we become is a direct result of choices we make. I believe it was Charles "Tremendous" Jones, the author of Positive Impact who said we are the product of the people we associate with and the books we read. We sometimes tend to blame our ...

     A simple, yet poignant thought has occured to me. I believe that, due to market conditions, it is time to retreat. Yes, retreat. Not to run in fear or retreat into ourselves. Many of us, myself included, need to look to the past to find something that we used to do, that worked to generate b...

The real estate market is in the dumps? ............ Ain't it great? To achieve something quickly, the best approach, by far, is to get emotional about what you want to achieve and, more importantly, you must lose all emotion about failing to achieve. Most of us can get emotional about a worthy g...