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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Exit Shore Realty
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Since I've been involved in selling real estate for so long (almost 30 years-YIKES!), I feel as though I'm enough of an expert to comment on how to get through these difficult times. First of all, get back to basics. That means updating, maintaining and expanding your personal data-base ALL THE T...
12/06/2008
I sit here with my brand new netbook computer and am amazed...AMAZED! at how cool this is. I was considering upgrading my cell phone into a blackberry type phone, so that I could (hopefully) learn how to check email from afar.  Then I saw this tiny laptop at a store...and after much consideration...
12/02/2008
How can you tell, at any gathering, which of those in attendance are Realtors?  Probably the one's that are standing or sitting off from the crowd of revellers, on their cell phone trying to get a "deal" put together. At least that's what my family has always seen. My (now grown) son once remarke...
11/28/2008
For those of us in the real estate business, we've come to accept the difficult state of our market. When two or more agents are together, invariably the discussion turns to how much more "work" it is to do what we do. Times have changed, and with those changes come the need to adjust our practic...
11/25/2008
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Having been in the real estate brokerage business for almost 30 years (HAS IT REALLY BEEN THAT LONG????), I feel qualified to make the following observation..... As an industry, our attitudes suck. That's right. We've inadvertently become part of the problem. Dale Carnegie, a world renowned exper...
11/23/2008
I hate being cold.  I hate high energy bills.  Having been a single mother living on commission (can any of you imagine that?), I've long been an advocate of conservation,  I recently noticed that my two children have grown up as friends of our planet, and consequently save...energy and their mon...
11/23/2008
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Yesterday I joined activerain, and began to embrace the technological advancements of the real estate industry. Well, I'm trying to embrace them.  Sometimes when things don't come easily to you the temptation is to avoid them, or at least procrastinate.  This was one of those times. I've had the ...
11/18/2008
There are, after all, things worth struggling through and achieving.  Communication, as a long-time Realtor, has always meant chatting with other agents in the office, or sending a letter or flyer to a prospect in an envelope with a stamp.  You might also, considering the timing, make a few phone...
11/18/2008
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