I wrote a “Member’s Only” post pointed at real estate professionals on ActiveRain that was mostly a rant about one of the many emails I received in regards to email marketing.  In essence, this email said that as a real estate agent, I should be pulling back on my marketing because the market is tough…  [...]

This is Part II (kind of) of Don’t make me call you…

ok, I admit it is just because the titles work well together… Don’t make me call you… but I can.  Anyway, here is the actual content.

If you list your home for sale, and it expires without selling or is withdrawn, you have consented to [...]

I hate cold calling. I’m not likely to do it. The world is in a much better way when you call me.

I hate GETTING the calls. I bet you do, too. If you are a seller and your listing expires… you know EXACTLY what I mean. A hundred agents calling [...]

If you are in the Atlanta area… or even if you aren’t… you’ve probably heard the commercials.  His tagline is “It’s the biggest no-brainer in the history of Earth.”  Usually he starts with some obvious pronouncements… and then he launches into something else.

But a recurring theme is “… no closing costs.  We don’t roll them [...]

A month or so ago, I posed a question on ActiveRain. It was interesting, and another post I recently ran across brought it back up in my mind.
If you have a real estate license, would you still hire an agent to sell your home?
It is an interesting question to ask real estate agents for [...]

Tom Royce over at The Real Estate Bloggers posted about this today. And it angers me. The thing to remember is that I grew up in a military area. Many of my friends from the sixth to twelfth grade were military. The kids were picked up and moved from place to [...]

That is a question that every seller asks when their home isn’t sold.  And it is a very valid question.

Let’s look at a few things:

The number of buyers that begin their search on the internet is approaching 90%

Does your home have an exceptional internet presence?  Sure, it is on the MLS, and that means that [...]

Walk-away borrowers have been a problem in a few markets (luckily, not so much in Atlanta).  The government and lending industry are both looking at ways to keep borrowers from just walking away.

So, here is the situation…
Someone buys a home with a 0% down loan.  The market turns a bit south, and now the property [...]

This story was my “Good Morning” today.  The AP and AOL conducted a poll, and while the story is probably accurate (technically), I am seeing a serious bias here.  And I really don’t like to play the media bias card…  Let me toss out a couple of quotes from the article:
The growing reluctance to dip [...]

A few days ago, I posted a video about my son getting new hockey skates.  He was a proud little boy with those new skates.  At “not quite 4″ he has decided that he wants to play hockey, and he has enthusiastically gone to skating lessons for the last 14 weeks.  We have also gone [...]