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Real Estate by Julie Broad | June 16, 2010 
Once upon a time there was this 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom rancher set back from a busy road in an extremely desirable area of town. The home, purchased for $289,000 two years before at the peak of the market, was barely worth what the owners had paid for it. But the owners, a lovely husband [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Stephani Davis | April 1, 2010The MLS can be a great resource for finding deals, especially given the glut of REOs and short sales currently on the market. Over the last few years I have picked up some tips and tricks to help me get the most bang for my buck out of my MLS experience. In this series, I’ll be [...]
Real Estate Marketing by Stephani Davis | March 18, 2010I was all set to write this week’s article about the pros and cons of hiring a mentor for your real estate wholesaling career, but then I happened to see this article that fellow BiggerPockets blogger, Florence Foote wrote earlier this week. As I was reading through her hilarious post about the ridiculous remarks that [...]
Realtors by Florence Foote | March 16, 2010 
Last week, I criticized the practice of some agents who hide potentially important information from buyers by putting it in the secret “agent’s only” section of the MLS called “private remarks.” I stand by that post: if it is important enough for the buyer’s agent (and would not cause embarrassment or a security risk) I [...]
Read the full article → Realtors by Florence Foote | March 9, 2010I believe most people, and even most Realtors, are fundamentally honest. Not only are there moral reasons for telling the truth, but these days, given the number of lawsuits that arise from real estate transactions gone wrong, it is simply good business to be honest. Thus, I am continually amazed by what I find under [...]
Realtors by J Scott | March 3, 2010 
Last week, my BiggerPockets.com blog article discussed the pros and cons of “Getting Your Real Estate License”… With that post in mind, I wanted to throw out some additional thoughts for those people who want to or plan to get their license to buy/sell their own properties. While the logistical parts of being a real [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate News by Dean Ouellette | February 6, 2010 
1) On the ethics of “strategic default”… – I understand where Scott is coming from on this post, but some parts of the country are in such a bad position you have to start questioning it. Imagine being in a home you owe $600,000 and today it is only worth $350,000. At some point a common [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate by Richard Warren | January 25, 2010 
A few days ago I bumped into someone I hadn’t seen for quite some time. Bob (made up name) was a real estate agent I had come to know through networking. I first met him a few years ago just as the Las Vegas real estate market was starting to decline. Bob had been fairly [...]
Read the full article → Realtors by Christian Russell | January 21, 2010 
Do you think of yourself as a sales professional? From what I’ve seen, most Realtors do not. It’s ironic, don’t you think? Even our license says “salesperson”, unless you’re a broker of course. Still, most Realtors I talk to avoid sales like the plague. Most of us think of selling as a bad, bad, dirty [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Marketing by Ben Roberts | January 13, 2010I read an article on RISmedia (that was a total product plug) about Internet Prospecting that’s 16 times more effective… It got me thinking about forced site registration vs. free home searches and the debate that inevitably ensues. That article pointed out some amazingly ridiculous facts. 65% of real estate agents have websites 90% of [...]
Social Media by Christian Russell | December 18, 2009The rules of real estate marketing are changing. The changes are fast and furious. And most Realtors are sitting on their hands. I hate to say it, because I have a lot of love for real estate pros and how hard you work, but it’s true. By my estimate, there are two main reasons this [...]
Real Estate by Christian Russell | December 11, 2009 
Do you want more sales? Do you want more clients? Do you want better clients? Do you want clients who trust you and take your advice…clients who don’t question your every move and keep looking out for you to screw them over? Do you want higher paying clients, clients who happily send you lots of [...]
Read the full article → Commentary by Ben Roberts | December 10, 2009 
There are quite a few things that I find curious in Real Estate. Independent contractors, substandard training, and why buyers are liars and sellers are worse… just to name a few. One of the most curious and incomprehensible things to me is why there isn’t a super amazing CRM (that’s Customer Relationship Management) tool for [...]
Read the full article → Foreclosures by Winston Westbrook | December 7, 2009 
This week I would like to spotlight five mistakes being committed by real estate agents on their REO property offers to the banks. I hear from countless other broker and investor friends in the Southern California area how frustrated they are that their bank REO offers are not being accepted. When they send me a [...]
Read the full article → Selling Real Estate by Christina Inman | November 9, 2009In my previous blog posts I told you that real estate agents who are tired of losing commissions to “short sale processing companies” are starting to realize that processing short sales themselves is well worth the effort. But, I’m not sure agents realize just how simple this process–which can net them some serious profits and [...]
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Can the World Get a Good CRM for Real Estate… Please?
by Ben Roberts | December 10, 2009There are quite a few things that I find curious in Real Estate. Independent contractors, substandard training, and why buyers are liars and sellers are worse… just to name a few. One of the most curious and incomprehensible things to me is why there isn’t a super amazing CRM (that’s Customer Relationship Management) tool for [...]