“Auction Today”? Not Exactly I spent a good chunk of today’s broker tour going through a 90 unit condo project in St. Louis Park. (If you didn’t know, Realtors spend a part of each Tuesday looking at all the new properties on the market, in a ritual called “Broker Tour.”) The condo complex caught my...Read More
Discount Realtors and Mushroom CloudsUnder the category of, “everything you (maybe) wanted to know about blog ‘plumbing,’ but were afraid to ask,” two quick items: 1. All the ads around the periphery of this blog are “served” by Google’s search engine, based on key words. So, the reason this blog has links to so many...Read More
[Note: Please go to “Firing Your Realtor – Part 1” to see the beginning of this post] Three. Poor or no feedback from prospective Buyers. As I like to tell clients, the best feedback any home seller can receive is a full-price, non-contingent offer from a financially qualified Buyer (even better: several of them!). However, in...Read More
How to Know When: Four Signs Just because a home hasn’t sold doesn’t mean that the Realtor is doing a bad job. But, if your home is lingering on the market, it’s imperative to know why. Here are four signs that the problem may not be your home, but your Realtor. One. Mediocrity (or worse)....Read More
“Short” Sales: Anything But KARE 11’s Rick Kupchella hosted a nice piece on tonight’s 10 p.m. news about “short sales.” (No video link here because I couldn’t get it to work.) A short sale occurs when the bank(s) agree to reduce the principal that they’re owed so that the owner can take an offer without...Read More
