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RECENT BLOG POSTS
  Recently, Keeping Current Matters posted an extremely interesting blog by Ken Johnson, PhD, who is at Florida International University, and Editor of the Journal of Housing Research. I found it particularly enlightening, because it addressed the issue of whether there are negative implications ...
07/29/2011
The federal government has come up with a lot of interesting ways to rescue the housing industry. As Keeping Current Matters notes, one of those ways was to raise the maximum loan that can be sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (for FHA loans), known as the Conforming Loan Limit. This was a good t...
07/18/2011
  We all know that buying a home can seem like a real risk right now. The recent situational assessment at Keeping Current Matters is spot-on; with a still-fragile economy and continuing high unemployment rates, just about everyone who's dipping into the housing marketplace is doing so with extre...
07/13/2011
The housing market, like the American economy, is a mess. Unfortunately, it's going to get worse before it gets better. In fact, the experts say that, with the number of properties in foreclosure looming on the horizon, it will be the end of 2012 before any kind of substantive rebound occurs. It...
07/06/2011
  Have you ever felt like you’ve fallen and you can’t get up? One month you are clicking along in your real estate business, things are going well and you are in the zone. The phone is ringing, referralsare coming in, listings are selling, sales are closing… Then all of a sudden, for whatever rea...
06/01/2011
  When A Ticked-Off Client Is A Good Thing We are professionals. We focus on customer service. We go out of our way to not offend any prospects or clients because we know that it's bad for business. But once in a while you do something that really ticks-off a client, and you don't even realize it...
05/28/2011
  Ever ask yourself, "Why am I not making more money when I know I can? I'm busy all the time, working hard…so what's wrong?"  Good for you! When you are an experienced agent who knows the real estate business, if you can still ask yourself basic questions then you are on the road to finding your...
05/19/2011
Is Your Structure Strong?   If you've ever watched a building being constructed, you know that they don't start with walls and a roof. The first thing that is built is a foundation, and onto that goes the basic structure of the building – the steel bars and girders that provide the strength and s...
05/11/2011
There are many ways to do things right and become highly successful in real estate, and just as many ways to go wrong. Did you know that, according to The National Association of Realtors®, just 11% of real estate agents are responsible for 90% of the sales made in the US each month? That means 8...
04/28/2011
  Hear That? It's Feedback Talking We receive all kinds of feedback every day. There's the large commission check that makes you feel on top of the world. There's the honking horn that tells you the traffic light turned green while your mind was wandering somewhere else. There's the silence from ...
04/13/2011
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