We get our fair share of referrals from around the country, so it is often difficult to separate legit messages from schlocky vendors looking to sell us something. Prior to this past weekend, a message was left in my office from what was ostensibly an agent in California who had a buyer looking
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03/12/2012
I seldom blog about my career before real estate, but a short question prompted me to write an answer that would be worth expounding upon. My first job out of Villanova started in May, 1989 for a publishing company in their sales division. It was a small privately held firm run by two partners w
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03/10/2012
MY esteemed colleagues, in their zest to farm their neighborhoods, be found on the Interwebs and be regarded as the "go to" mayor of their community, are falling all over themselves to remind you to turn your clock ahead tonight for daylight savings. They figure that if they tell you to turn you
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03/09/2012
I admit that while I may be a card carrying member of Generation X physically, I am in many ways a boomer. A case in point would be my love affair with the old TV serial adventure The Lone Ranger, which streams on Netflix. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels were long over the hill and doing Aqua V
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03/07/2012
After a discussion of market reports in a real estate discussion group geared at forwarding the industry, I am prompted to revisit what makes a market report good or bad in terms of consumer response. First, if what you produce gets no consumer response, you need to change what you write. If wha
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02/28/2012
Those of you who know Paul Slaybaugh know what I am talking about. Those of you who don't can thank me later. Paul is a writer of uncommon talent with a wit that I adore. He quasi graduated from Active Rain and now self hosts his own platform at Scottdale Property Shop, and his latest article is
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02/25/2012
If you read Inman News, it is likely that you have seen the story on Redfin's blog entitled "Sellers Lose in Dual Agency." Glen Kelman, CEO of Redfin, had his firm look at the data covering 230,000 closed deals and concluded that homes sold in what REDFIN deems to be dual agent transactions sold
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02/23/2012
There is a sinking feeling real estate agents get when we look up the history of a co-op or condo apartment we are listing for sale and see that our new client bought it as a 2 bedroom unit and prior transactions have it as a one bedroom. Obviously, two bedroom apartments are higher in value than
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02/20/2012
Sometimes there is no pretty way to say it, so I'll just say it: January 2012 was not a very good month in Westchester real estate. According to the Empire Access MLS, both the transaction total and median sale price of single family homes in the county were down from the same time in 2011. Since
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02/12/2012
