All Forum Posts by: Peter Tverdov

 I just finished showing an off-market deal a couple hours ago and put an off-market under contract for a buyer 3 weeks ago. I am the #1 realtor in my town and that's one reason why, constantly hustling to give clients value. 

 I stopped reading when you said anybody. You're being obtuse or dense...or maybe both Idk and don't care. 

 A good one is sourcing deals off-market with other agents or other home owners. They have contractors you can use, reliable attorneys, title companies, home inspectors, lenders. Relationships with town and state inspectors. Good ones like any profession are very valuable. The issue is it's such a low bar to enter the profession a lot of...dumb people, make the rest of us look bad. 

 Bruce I agree with both. I wonder how this affects Zillow and Realtor.com you already have these super teams spending crazy money on leads, then a brokerage like KW takes their split, team lead gets it, then splits that with the buyer agent getting leads...by the time you factor in the Zillow cut this person was currently getting 30-40 cents on the dollar, now they have to negotiate their commission on top of it? I don't know...will be interesting and I also agree that now buyers will go direct to listing agent thinking they're getting representation but if they're not paying anything they will not get any representation and could potentially get harmed. Also agree with @James Wise that it will get rid of the dead weight (we started doing that at our boutique brokerage anyway this year).

PMs are human too, sometimes they are wrong. Doesn't mean they are shady or trying to rip you off. If you feel like getting a second opinion that's your right. Sometimes a vendor the PMC has used for a while is just off. It happens. 

That honestly looks great. You are dealing with professional property management companies.

Most of this board is DIY landlords who swear they know better than property managers. It boils down to this: how much do you value your time? Unfortunately a lot of people over pay for property and value their own time at zero and DIY (and do it poorly). I own a PM company so I am biased but I don't even manage my own properties, our PM company does. I focus my time on more important things.

Timing isn't always ideal but the bank doesn't care if rent is not paid and neither does the tenant who walks away from their obligation. Always file quickly without hesitation.

We manage many 100+ year old buildings. The odds of you having any insulation value above R2 are very slim. Most of those buildings the studs have brick in between or nothing. That's your insulation. Then we can talk about windows as well if they're old. Your boiler will be working hard to keep the place warm, just is what it is. 

That's a big roll of the dice IMO (and I love that place).