Realtor Email Etiquette: “Do’s and “Don’ts How do you effectively double the already large number of emails between two Realtors working on a transaction together? Have one explicitly request that the other acknowledge receipt of each and every email they send. Yup, I’ve run into agents who subscribe to that annoying practice. Which is why...Read More
Election Eve 2020 I suppose it’s possible that, eight months into the Pandemic, I’ve finally alienated everyone I know. 🙂 But, I actually think that’s not why it seems harder to reach people the last few days — myself included (and I don’t think it has anything to do with Halloween — not this year)....Read More
Proposed Alternatives: “Spam Notice,” “Email Filter,” “Sequestered Email,” etc. Just a helpful suggestion to Microsoft, purveyor of the ubiquitous “Office 360” software suite, while everyone’s sensitivity is, shall we say, “heightened” at the moment: At least for the next several months, you may want to consider using a synonym for “Quarantine notification,” the message I...Read More
Avoiding a “Hillary Clinton Problem” For the second time in six months, I’m working with a client whose AOL email account is intercepting my Edina Realty emails as unwanted spam. Result: my client has to hunt down my emails in his “junk email” folder — once I tell him to look there! Like many Realtors,...Read More
Realtor Email Etiquette: “Do’s” and “Don’t’s” How do you effectively double the already large number of emails between two Realtors working on a transaction together? Have one explicitly request that the other acknowledge receipt of each and every email they send. Yup, I’ve run into agents who subscribe to that annoying practice. Which is why...Read More
“You Know What They Meant” Department Among the hundreds of “spam” emails intercepted by my email filter each week was one the other day with this subject title: “Contract is singed and we are ready to proceed.” Not recognizing the sender — and having no in-progress deals about to go up in smoke — I...Read More
