Amy's innermost Real Estate thoughts

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Real Estate Agent - Allen Tate
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When I opened up my in-box this evening I had an e-mail from an agent asking for feedback on one of her listings that I showed on Friday afternoon. The house was a little outside of this buyer's criteria in terms of age but it got her the land that she wanted if she was willing to do a little upd...
12/14/2008
Just wanted to share about a situation I am working through. We have helped buyers purchase new construction homes from large builders many many times. We get to the point where I can walk in a model home and already know the on-site agent, works out great when trying to work out the best deal fo...
12/14/2008
About six months ago I invested in a fancy GPS unit. At the time I thought it would be great. I would be able to show property more efficiently. No more spending an hour on map quest before each time I met a client. And I was right! Now I just plug in all of my addresses ahead of time. The GPS te...
12/13/2008
I opened my eyes this week while out with a buyer in regards to the "plight of the townhome." I can remember about a year and a half ago when a buyer would come to us with a price range under $135,000 or so, our first question would be "How do you feel about a townhome." We always asked this firs...
12/12/2008
More on the short sale saga: When talking to the person on the other end of the phone at the bank, I am always amazed at the things they say. While on the phone today I asked the same question I have been asking all week, "Can you please confirm that my fax has been received and uploaded into you...
12/11/2008
This post comes from a conversation I had with a buyer client in my car a couple weeks ago. This particular client and I have gotten pretty close, more like a friendship than a business one. In the car on the way from one listing to the next (about 15min apart), we saw a REALLY big house on a bea...
12/11/2008
   Being on both the listing and selling side of more and more short sales lately I have noticed one detail that can completely change the dynamic and whether or not your buyer wants to write and offer. As a buyer's agent the first question you should ask the listing agent is, "Who is handling of...
12/08/2008
I have handled several short sales in the past few months and one thing never fails to amaze me. You will call and they say yes they have all of your paperwork but another person needs to look at it "call bad in a week." Then the next day you think about calling back but wonder to yourself "what ...
12/08/2008
I was sitting at an open house yesterday. Between serious buyer 4 and 5 I starting asking myself "why are so many people showing up?" All too frequently I have sat at an open house with not so much as a nosey neighbor for 3 hours. But yesterday, I was only an hour and a half into this open house ...
12/07/2008
There is a lot of argument about whether or not open houses really work. First lets define "work." If you define open house sucess by selling the house that day, I would say absolutely not, open houses are doomed to fail. I have had agents tell me about buyers walking through the door and signing...
12/07/2008
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