Reality Check: 5 Facts for Buyers Who Want to Lowball an Offer

A housing transaction, at the most fundamental level, includes one person who wants to sell and one person who wants to buy. Once the terms are agreed upon, voilà! . . . win-win.

However, if the seller is miserable with the final terms or feels like they had to settle for a lowball offer, the deal is likely to unravel or turn ugly. And if it does fall through, that causes aggravation and costs valuable time and money for everyone involved. … continue reading

Saving Time: 5 Ideas for Using a Real Estate Intern

Now’s the perfect time to think about hiring an intern. These experience hungry, high school and college students are aching for the chance to build their resume and can help you expand your business, according to Shannon W. King, a Realtor also known as “the Real Estate Road Warrior” … continue reading

3 Tools You Can Use to Keep Your Clients in the Loop – Listing Monitoring

Keeping homeowners in the loop and calming their nerves throughout the sale is a key part of a listing agent’s job.  Homeowners want to know you are working for them and providing maximum visibility to get their home sold. That doesn’t necessarily mean calling your owner daily with an update, but rather connecting owners with resources and information that will help them stay up to date with what’s happening with their listing. … continue reading

7 Productivity Boosters To Help You Work Smarter

Most busy real estate professionals struggle trying to find time to do all of the things we want to do in our day. We need to always be prospecting yet busy work can keep us away from the tasks that really make a difference to the bottom line. While we can never create more time, we can work smarter. Here are seven productivity boosters to make the most of your day. … continue reading

How To Leverage Technology & Ramp-Up Productivity Using a Virtual Assistant

Technology is changing faster than many agents can keep up with. From maintaining websites, social media profiles and pages, marketing listings, and keeping appointments with buyers and sellers, it can be a struggle to get it all accomplished.

How are agents finding the time to get it all done? … continue reading

Organize Yourself With Evernote To Keep Your Real Estate Business On Track

You may have heard the hype about a tool called Evernote, and maybe someone you know says that they love it, but what do they use it for? Evernote is a simple tool to help you organize notes, photos, conversations and much more. Evernote works on several platforms including your blackberry, iPad, PC and Macintosh. … continue reading