I promise to do better than this later, but for now… I’m in Vegas.
What can I pass along?
If you are flying with a laptop, take it out of the bag and run it through the X-ray machine by itself. I didn’t know that.
I will try to get back on later today and post up some pictures as well as anything else that looks interesting.
I am getting ready to go to my first NAR Convention. The NAR is the National Association of REALTORS(R).
I haven’t been to one of the national conventions, but I am looking forward to it. I was able to schedule it at the VERY last minute. I do plan on posting each day, even though I know I will be very busy. I doubt if I’ll even have time to squeeze in a hand or three of Blackjack, as I am scheduled to hit info sessions all day, every day.
Sorry for not having a normal post today, but I promise to make up for it… maybe I’ll come up with something on the plane… or I’ll watch “The 300” instead… we’ll see.
One of the great features I offer to buyers is the Client Gateway. If you aren’t familiar, it is a custom private webpage that lists all of the properties that meet the criteria we decide on. As new listings are entered into the MLS, they show up in the Client Gateway the next morning.
The example shown is a Gateway that I have set up to keep an eye on new listings of homes with 4 or more car garages in Gwinnett County, GA.
A great feature of the Client Gateway is the ability to organize the properties. While reviewing the properties in the Gateway, one can select “Like”, “Possibility” or “Dislike”. Properties that are shuffled
I got to thinking after responding to a post, and I thought I would expand upon that and write a whole new post.
Gayle Rogers points out the drawbacks of a company website for real estate practitioners in her post Websites that Your Company Provides. She outlines her experience with building the SEO and traffic for a site, only to abandon it when she changed brokers. I think that many of us have been there. I know that I was. This was my reply:
What is it going to take to make them happy? Did someone at the DoJ have an unsatisfactory experience with a real estate agent? Or is it simply that they know our approval ratings are down there with our Democrat led Congress (which would love to have even the dismal ratings of George W. Bush), so we are an easy target?
There is an interesting report called “Competition in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry” that is a pretty interesting read…