The traditional Real Estate “brick & mortar” brokers (Prudential, Coldwell Banker, Remax, Keller Williams, etc) have been feeling the pain of the last two years.  With less agents and less business to support their large infrastructure, their balance sheets have taken a major hit.
However, the number 1 reason for the decline of the brick & […]

In reading many articlkes about Real Estate sales people, there are three basic conclusions to draw related to customer service in Real Estate.

Customers prefer an agent who is positive rather than negative.  However, they do not want head in the clouds “selling blue sky” optimism.
Customers want agents that are easy to do business with.  This […]

I recently read an interesting article about people’s business practices in a down economy.  While many profess to want business, many do not practice the things that make them good to do business with.  Here are some examples:

Do they return phone calls in a timely manner?
Do they answer your questions completely?
Do they respond to your […]

While many people tout the purpose of blogging, we wanted to let you know why we have our Real Estate blog.  The reason we blog about Real Estate is to allow people to get to know us, how we approach business and our feelings about what is important.  In our life, Kari and I feel […]

There is a lot of value in the Go Green initiatives. For existing home owners Green remodeling, dubbed “regreening,” includes design and construction that reduces the environmental impact of the work itself. This includes the impact on energy, water, and materials consumption; waste generation; and harmful emissions (both indoors and out), according to the U.S. […]

Everyone who likes technology loves to talk about marketing Real Estate on the Internet (E-Marketing).  Being techno-weenies ourselves, the more we learn about how to use technology to market Real Estate, we continuously discover how much we don’t know.  How to use and maximize search engines, what words to use and what words not to […]