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Looking for real estate information? Articles on the home buying and selling process are here. What you need to know, from A to Z.

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Short sales in Phoenix are a fact of life. No one wants to short sale their home. But if you need to, you need to be informed. We can help.

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Thompson's Realty has agents all across the Phoenix metro area who are available to help you sell or purchase a home. From first time buyers to investors, we can help!

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The Two Hardest Things to Tell a Client

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Throughout both my real estate career and my prior-to-real-estate-life in Corporate America, I’ve found there are two small phrases that are at the same time both the most powerful and the most difficult words you can say to a client… “I don’t know” and “No” Why are these so difficult? In real estate, or any [...]

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On Dashter

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Dashter, a wicked cool new plugin for WordPress, was just released. Actually, Dashter is far more than just a plugin. From Dashter.com: Dashter is a revolutionary way to listen, curate & amplify social media interaction, directly from your WordPress website. I was fortunate enough to beta test the product, and can say I was enamored with all [...]

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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 [...]

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Anatomy of a Rental Scam

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On a regular basis we get contacted by people looking for rental properties on CraigsList. The VAST majority of time they are calling us about properties that are not listed by our brokerage. (Why? People Google addresses and this site comes up frequently in those searches. We have info on almost every Phoenix home listed [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving 2011

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Happy Thanksgiving! I posted this on Facebook earlier today and figured it pretty much summed things up, so why not just repeat it here… What am I thankful for? More than I can list here… I have an amazing wife, two wonderful children, and family and friends that I dearly love who love me back [...]

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What I learned from National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

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Those that follow along either here, on Twitter or Facebook know I took up the (at times asinine) National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. 23 days into this madness, here is what the NaNoWriMo web site says about my little endeavor… Well howdy [...]

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Thinking about using Genesis / AgentPress? Now is the time to buy!

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Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale on the uber-cool Genesis, StudioPress, AgentPress, and Premise WordPress products. My affiliate proceeds to go to Clint Miller.

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Demystifying the Franchisor IDX Rule / Rescission

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Apologies in advance to those that couldn’t care less about the inner workings of the real estate industrial complex. This article will likely bore you to tears. We’ll return to our regularly scheduled programming shortly. However, if you are in the real estate field, this may be helpful. Or maybe not. Who knows… If you [...]

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Edina Realty pulling listings from Trulia and Realtor.com?

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Craig Kamman, an agent with Edina Realty in Wayzata, MN reported Tuesday on his blog that Edina Realty is going to stop sending their real estate listings to 3rd party sites like Trulia and Realtor.com. From what I am assuming is an internal message to Edina agents (as it’s nowhere to be found in Edina’s [...]

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An Open Letter to the NAR Multiple Listing Issues and Policies Committee

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Fair warning, mini-rant ahead… On Saturday at the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Annual Conference, I attended the meeting of the Multiple Listing Issues and Policies Committee (heretofore called simply, the MLS Committee). Why in the world would I attend that meeting? Because I’m a glutton for punishment? Because I like sitting around for three [...]

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