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“No More Monkees Jumping on the Bed”: Rules of Etiquette for Sunday Open Houses

(Top) Ten Commandments (“#6. No Free Samples”) You wouldn’t think Realtors hosting Sunday open houses would have to instruct parents to tell their kids not to jump on the beds in the owner’s home. Unfortunately . . . you’d be wrong. While the vast majority of open house visitors are respectful of the “For Sale”...
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Needed: “Letter of Intent” for Residential Real Estate (“Listing Contract Lite?”)

Realtors’ “Free Sample” Problem College-bound high school athletes routinely sign them. So why not prospective home Buyers or Sellers? In fact, having something akin to a “letter of intent” in residential real estate could fill a genuine void. “All or Nothing” Now, the decision to hire a Realtor can feel like a leap of faith...
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NYC Dispatches, Cont.

From the Mouths of Babes [Editor’s Note:  my blog posts the past week have more been more intermittent — and spiced with NY anecdotes — because I just returned from there.  Memo to self:  put away the sharp elbows and aggressive driving (adaptive in NY, but out-of-place in the more congenial, laid-back Midwest.] Compiling an exhaustive list...
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