Leanne Smith's (highdesertre) Blog

The Oxford Online Dictionary defines grit as the "courage and resolve; strength of character.”  In real estate, grit is required and let me explain.Many of my real estate listings are from referrals whether current or past clients as well as community members I have met here in Golden Valley and ...

In our personal and professional daily lives we often experience a difficulty and often more than one difficulty. Recently, I reread this quote by Rene Descartes:"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."For me, Descartes was providing a solution to ac...

Funny thing, just this past week I received a very lowball offer for an off grid residential property. The potential buyer shared he had done his research and four years ago the sellers paid this amount.  So he offered about $10,000 over what the current sellers paid.When the potential buyer and ...

Often, I have read of real estate agents in other forums responding to this question from first time home buyers about the down payment amount with a response of “No Money Down.” Unfortunately, this response can be very misleading.Even if the loan does not require any down payment such as for qua...

Whether you are a real estate agent, REALTOR®, seller or buyer results matter. A recent survey from the National Association of REALTORS®, suggested in 2024 that 71% of agents did not engage in a successful real estate transaction.The answers to this possible failure rate are many. However from m...

Way is such a simple word with basically two meanings (Oxford Language): A method, style, or manner of doing something A road, track, path or street traveling along These two meanings came back to me as I read this unfamiliar quote by Miyamoto Mushashi (Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist and ...

In any role be it professional or personal, doing things differently matters especially when achieving positive desired results.  Years ago, I read this quote by Marcel Proust:"The true voyage of discovery is not seeing new landscapes, but seeing with new eyes."How do you see things differently f...

Professional real estate agents are legally obligated to be diligent when acting as a listing agent or buyer’s agent. This due diligence surfaced when I started thinking about the publication of seller’s residential floor plans on MLS public viewing websites.Beyond that issue, there are many othe...

Often home owners take extended vacations and return home to find a water leak or worse more than one. Sometimes these water leaks are from hoses to the washing machine that have experienced constant pressure or a sudden increase in water pressure.When we lived in NW IN, my husband decided to eli...

The month of April for many means spring cleaning their homes. This is the time all furniture is moved, cleaned and possibly re-positioned in the home.What I have learned is to take spring cleaning to a new level.  That new level is de-cluttering and determining what is truly essential.  Of cours...