Politics isn’t the only field that has incumbents and challengers. Real estate does, too. The “incumbent Realtor” is the Realtor who helped the now-selling homeowner buy the home, however many years back; the challengers are all the other Realtors vying for the listing. Average Realtor “Career”:  < 2 Years I’d guesstimate that something like one-third of...Read More

Trifecta of Turn-off’s We may be small, but we’re slow. –Cal Tech football slogan Want to assure that (practically) no Realtors show your property? Start out with a short sale, requiring the bank(s) holding the mortgage to voluntarily take a haircut — which they’re loathe to do. That means the already long odds of closing any deal these days suddenly got...Read More

Realtor-to-Realtor Courtesy Normally, you’d think pointing out that someone tracked dirt through your home, or that a window was covered with a certain bird “souvenir,” would be an insult. When isn’t that the case? When a Realtor doing a preview or showing encounters those things, and lets the listing agent know. That’s especially the case...Read More