Judith Abbott's (judithabbott) Blog

When a buyer makes a call off a yard sign, very few of them understand where that phone call goes.  Almost always, it goes to the listing office updesk.  Agents in the office sign up for shifts on the office updesk.  It is common for those shifts to be called "Opportunity Time" because it is a wa...

A recent featured blog suggested some ways to have a low-ball offer taken seriously.  When I am acting as a Buyer's Agent, part of my job is to demonstrate that our offer is serious, even if it appears ridiculously low.  If all a Buyer's Agent does is simply prepare a half-baked low-ball offer an...

Many people in Dallas don't know anything at all about an area of our city called The Cedars.  It is the area south of I-30, across from downtown, across from the Farmers Market. It was a prime residential area in the 1880s and 1890s.  By the end of World War II, it was mostly an industrial area....

I got up late this morning.  It was 8:30.  The first thing I did was to called the showing scheduling service (CSS) because I need to schedule two additional showings for some buyers I am meeting with at 10 this morning.  The phone just rang and rang and rang.  I couldn't figure out what the prob...