How to Make a Home Seller Happy

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Something I hear from real estate agents frequently: I do _________ just to appease my home selling clients. You can fill in that blank with things like: Running ads in the Sunday paper Holding open houses Using QR codes on sign riders Enhancing listings on Realtor.com Setting up a Facebook page for the home Blasting an email notification to every agent in town Or any of an … [Read more...]

7 Habits of Highly Effective Real Estate Agents

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Here's the third installment of our "7 Habits" series, following up 7 Habits of Highly Effective Home Buyers and 7 Habits of Highly Effective Home Sellers. What, you didn't know this was a series? Yeah, me either until about 10 minutes ago... Here we'll explore seven habits that highly effective real state agents practice. In an act of shameless self-promotion, we'll throw in that if you … [Read more...]

7 Habits of Highly Effective Home Sellers

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Pretty original title eh? Apologies to Stephen Covey… It fits though, and there is something to be learned from how home sellers have approached the often arduous task of putting their home on the market, and more importantly, closing the transaction. Effective Habit #1: Be Realistic What your neighbor sold their home for last year, or even last month, doesn’t matter. What you “lost” … [Read more...]

How not to sell your Phoenix home

*Sigh* Anyone that has read this blog for any length of time knows that lousy listing information on homes for sale is a pet peeve of mine. Here is today’s winner. It covers pretty much every aspect of what makes a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) entry wrong. First, there is only one photo. It’s of the front of the home and the most dominant aspect of the photo is the SUV parked in the … [Read more...]

Going FSBO? Here’s One Way to Waste Your Time and Effort

First, let me begin this with saying I am not “anti-FSBO” (For Sale By Owner) or anti-limited service brokerage. Yeah, I’m a real estate broker and of course I’d prefer you enlist me to help you sell your home. But if you really know what you are doing, and you have the time, and you want to sell your home yourself, go for it. Knock yourself out. There is clearly … [Read more...]

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