Ask the Broker: Is it legal to place offers on multiple homes?

August 23, 2009 Comments
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Sean sent this question in a couple of days ago:
Question: There are a lot of bank owned homes up in Anthem – is it legal to place 2 separate offers on 2 different houses?
The short answer is yes, it’s perfectly legal (at least in Arizona) to place multiple offers on multiple properties. Your mileage [...]

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Why I Love Social Media – It’s about real people

August 22, 2009 Comments
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Lately I’ve been teaching some real estate continuing education courses on blogging and social media. It’s always interesting to me to talk to people whose experience in social media ranges from the complete novice to the grizzled veteran.
At the end of these courses, someone always asks, “What’s the point? I mean, what is the value [...]

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The Social Media Revolution

August 20, 2009 Comments
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I’ve been meaning to post this video for a couple of weeks now. About a half-bazillion people have already posted it, but in case you haven’t seen it yet it’s worth 4 minutes of your time.
I’m teaching real estate continuing education classes now in “social media” and invariably I get input like, “is this [...]

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What You Should Do. What Should You Do?

August 19, 2009 Comments
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“Ma’am, I think the answer is quite clear:  what you should do is _________________.”
I learned somewhere along the way in an Ethics class in college that anytime you use the word should it could be considered a normative statement. Normative statements are often used to describe what we as a society generally accept as social [...]

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Carnival of Real Estate #154

August 17, 2009 Comments
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Welcome to the 154th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate (and apologies for the delay).
This is the fourth time we’ve hosted the “CoRE” – previous versions were #33, #37 and #93. All had catchy themes, at least in my mind.
I struggled with a theme for this week’s Carnival. There was just nothing there, nothing [...]

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TPREG Blogsperiment #1,182+: Wibiya Toolbar and Phoenix Real Estate Info Pages

August 16, 2009 Comments
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I like to try new stuff and gizmos. It’s just the way I am. So over the past couple of days, a few new blog experiments have been launched. As always, no promises that they’ll be permanently ensconced here.  
First up, the Wibiya toolbar. Take note at the bottom of the screen:

This toolbar is [...]

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Dead Man Walking: Death of Mortgage Brokers?

August 13, 2009 Comments
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Jay’s Note: Please give a big Phoenix Real Estate Guy welcome to Justin McHood, mortgage guy extraordinaire, from Arizona Mortgage Team. Justin’s going to contribute here on a quasi-regular basis — until he runs away screaming like a girl, quits or gets fired. His insight into the world of mortgages should prove beneficial to us [...]

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The End of the McMansion? New home sizes fall for first time in 15 years

August 12, 2009 Comments
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“McMansion’s” – those sprawling, cookie-cutter homes that dominate suburbia have, according to CNNMoney, dropped in size for the first time in 15 years.
For the first time since 1994, the average square footage of a newly built home is smaller than it was last year. With a median square footage of [...]

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Bizarre Real Estate Practices #873 (and #874)

August 10, 2009 Comments
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From the annual Harris Interactive Poll on prestigious occupations comes this shocker:

Lookee who is sitting firmly at the bottom of the list.
And this is nothing new. Harris added real estate agent / broker to their poll in 2003 and we’ve been at the bottom every year with the exception of 2005 when we were [...]

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Phoenix Suns Dance Team Tryouts

August 10, 2009 Comments
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If I was younger, a lot better looking, could dance and was female, then I’d be headed to the US Airways Center on Saturday, August 15.
The Phoenix Suns Dancers are holding auditions, and all the info you need is here.
Since I clearly don’t qualify to be a Suns Dancer, I’ll have to be satisfied with [...]

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Phoenix Real Estate Guy wins Inman Most Innovative Blog Award

August 8, 2009 Comments
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Our humble abode here on the Internet was named several weeks ago as a finalist for the Inman News Most Innovative Blog Award for 2009.
Yesterday on the last day of the the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference I was surprised and honored to be selected as the winner.
The other finalists are all great blogs, [...]

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