Four Easy Steps; Total Cost: < $250 “Untitled Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting Auctioned for $110 Million, a U.S. Record.” –headline, nbcnews.com (5/18/2017). For those without the means — or acquired taste(?) — to drop $110 million for an abstract painting (by Jean-Michel Basquiat), I have a much cheaper alternative. Step 1: buy the recent New Yorker...Read More
How to Go From Two (or More) Buyers to None Multiple offers are such a fixture of the Twin Cities housing market these days that Buyers’ agents need to be on their “on their game” (and then some) if their clients are to have a shot of prevailing. Meanwhile, listing agents (representing Sellers) are almost...Read More
(At Least, a Couple Afternoons a Week) To Realtors, a “Grandma’s house” is a (very) dated home, albeit one that is spotless and meticulously maintained. So, what’s the other kind? This kind: “Grandma babysits their kids in the home, so 1 hour notice is needed, 2 hours preferred.” That showing instruction popped up doing a...Read More
(Too) Affordable Monthly Payments One of the best ways to deal with (financial) objections is to whittle them down to size. As salespeople know, there’s no better way to make a big(ger) number seem smaller than to shrink it into monthly payments. So, that extra $10,000 you might have to pay to get a house now...Read More
Realtor “Atta-Boy”: ‘Nice Listing!’ A new listing has a surprising number of parallels with the opening of a Broadway play. There’s the opening night anticipation. There are the hopes (and fears) about whether the audience (prospective Buyers) will like it. And there can be a sense of dread about what the toughest critics will have...Read More
“Ross A. Justsold” I’ve never investigated ” and am not about to ” but I’ve always wondered if a few (too?) felicitous real estate names are the Realtor’s real name, or legally changed. So, in the Twin Cities you’ll find Realtors with surnames such as “Sell,” “Sells,” “Sellnow,” etc. If I ever go that route,...Read More
