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April 11, 2012

Realtor Rewards

Who Says There’s No Free Lunch (and Prizes, Too)? To stimulate turnout at Broker Opens, Realtors will often offer a prize of some sort. So, I’ve seen Twins tickets, gift certificates, restaurant coupons etc. given to whomever lucky Realtor had their business card plucked from the bowl. The (occasional) caveat:  some Realtors only give away the prize...
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Barry Ritholtz Channels Vince Lombardi

“Do Deflated Bubbles Always Overshoot?”  Cont. The Green Bay Packers never lost a game.  They just ran out of time. –Vince Lombardi If you missed my tête-à-tête last week with Barry Ritholtz (“Why the Housing Bears are Bearish“), let me summarize: Mr. Ritholtz wrote that, even after a 35% drop from the peak nationally, housing...
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When is a House Optimally Staged?

Here’s one more from the “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it” department:  staging. Specifically, how do you know when a home has been optimally staged? Unfortunately, there’s no objective test that I’m aware of (like putting a toothpick into a cake to see whether it comes out clean).  Rather,...
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