Antonio's Real Estate Blog

I believe that it is time for all of us to begin fighting back! Yes, we must fight for our jobs, our careers, our industry. We can no longer just sit and wait for better days. I would like to challenge everyone who reads this post to give us ONE idea that we all can use to spread the word to the ...

As a professional Realtor with over 24 years of experience, I have never seen so many bad news about my business put together and shown all over the media day after day after day. You will think that there is a conspirancy to drive us out of our business. I certainly have noticed the drop of phon...

The Tax Credit passed by congress have given home buyers a better incentive to go out and make a purchase of their first home. But are they stimulated enough to do that? I believe the problem we have is not simply the apathy of the home buyer but rather the confidence level of the average buyer, ...

I presented an offer on a Short Sale listing, and quickly realized that the listing agent was not familiar with these types of sales. For my client to have a chance of getting his offer accepted I had to step in and diplomatically "guide the listing agent through the process of a short sale." Thi...

By giving free dance lessons at their house in the middle of the week, these Realtors are looking for business to the tune of the cha-cha-cha and even tangoing with their potential home buyers. A few minutes before 7 PM the door bell rings, a voice comes through the video monitor and shouts "I'll...

The Inauguration party in Washington D.C. is over. It appears to me that the new President is the kind of medicine that we need... right about now. "Change" & "Hope" were the tag lines for his run to the Presidency, I am optimistic about this change, I believe the infamous "economic stimulus pack...

I just finished closing a short sale and was pleasantly surprised to see how smooth a transaction it was! We even closed 5 days ahead of our 30 day escrow. After analyzing the entire transaction I realized that this was the result of a combination of a few good steps taken by all of us before the...

Long time ago I read something that said, "it is not what happens to you, but how you react to what happens to you that determines the result..." Often times I am asked that infamous question; How is the real estate business? As we all know, when it is real dark in one part of the world, there mu...

Imagine a couple of dancers taking to the dance floor, ready to dance their choreographed routines at a ballroom dance competition. They know that in order to win they must be perfect on... everything! They must have good posture, execute their steps with clarity, use correct alignments on the fl...

About a year ago we built a Pirate Ship for Halloween in front of our house, we had lots of free time in the summer of 2007 since the real estate market was not going anywhere. We track the traffic in our website regularly, in June '07 we had 5,000 hits, 4,000 in July, August & September between ...