The Second Most Popular Question in Real Estate What’s the second most popular question in real estate? (the first being, “what’s my home worth?”) “How long will it take to sell my home?” Unless the Realtor is going to buy it, the honest answer is, “I don’t know.” However, it is possible to give the...Read More
Pushing the Boundaries — Literally What do you do when you see another Realtor break the rules (or appear to)? And if you do something, does that make you a whistle blower — or a tattle tale? Thankfully, the issue doesn’t come up that often. But it does come up. Here are the three most...Read More
P.S. to “Know Your Customer” “Yeah, Yeah,” I can hear some of my selling clients saying after reading the previous post. “But what if Bill Gates showed up to buy my house?” If Bill Gates wanted to buy your home, the odds are extremely high that you’d never know it — at least until after...Read More
Googling (Facebooking? Zillow-ing?) Your Buyer/Seller Financial institutions are subject to something called the “Know Your Customer” rule, to prevent identity theft fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing. I’m starting to think that real estate has something equivalent, called the “Know Your Buyer (or Seller)” rule. By that, I mean that I’m increasingly seeing clients “Google”...Read More
“What Have I Got to Lose?”* It could just be my imagination, but it sure seems like there’s an uptick in FSBO (“For Sale by Owner”) activity recently. At least through my Realtor eyes, it seems like that happens at market extremes. When the market is overheated and everything seems to be selling in a...Read More
Hey, why is there a secret passage in the middle of the Bathroom mirror? With what looks like someone wearing a coal miner’s helmet? Oh, I get it! 🙂 P.S.: the amateur photos didn’t cost the home owner a sale — the home sold last August (I pulled the property in the course of looking...Read More
