Cliff Kavanaugh's (cvillecliff) Blog

OK - you made the decision to put your home on the market and to put your best effort into making it sparkle at your first open house.  After you objectively inspected your home and made your list of needed improvements, you likely found some broad issues that apply to your entire home, like worn...

RainCamp LIVE in Los Angeles  The excitement has been brewing for a few weeks and the day finally arrived. Having heard so much about RainCamp I was pretty stoked to be able to attend, especially since I had to be in LA the day before (after the week in DC for NAR and CRS) for my daughter's gradu...

Keller Williams Realty of Charlottesville is picking up litter on RIO RD today!Today is RED Day and Keller Williams Realty's associates, staff, and friends, are getting ready to go to work and give where they live. RED Day, which stands for Renew, Energize, Donate, began last year across North Am...

While nobody hopes to have an automobile accident or experience other difficulties while on the road, that does not mean that being unprepared for such events is a wise idea. A wise idea would be to carry a car safety kit in every vehicle, and thus be prepared for a wide variety of emergencies. L...

Don't you hate that? Your goingt through the MLS looking for listings for you clients and you run across those that have rather not put a picture up of the property and it has been on the market for over 2 weeks, or they have one picture up and its just the front of the house, or what is even wor...

This could work for anyone on Linkedin! Interested in getting ranked at the top of Linkedin for local keyword searches related to the Real Estate industry? Of course you are and who wouldn't! Watch the video below of renowned Linkedin expert Lewis Howes. In the video Lewis explains the simple tip...

Strategic Default??? It seems that some of my AR brothers and sisters are playing fast and loose with semantics.  With so many agents blogging about Strategic Defaults, I couldn't help but post a clarification message to the misguided souls. Strategic default is an oxymoron.  There is no such th...

I have been a photographer for many, many years. My trusty old Nikon SLR 8088s film camera served me for nearly twenty years, and it still works perfectly today. But when professional quality film started becoming more and more scarce, I finally went digital in 2006. I chose a Nikon D80 SLR beca...

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You've heard this phrase in relation to real estate for years and now it seems to apply to Google juice, too: location, location, location.  What do I mean by that?  With the use of smart phones to search the internet on the rise, Google has found that approximately 1/3 of Google searches on mobi...