There's a joke about the pessimist and optimist arguing about whether a glass is half empty or half full and the pragmatist walking up, grabbing the glass and knocking it back and proclaiming that was good! And of course the rest of us realize the glass was always refillable with whatever we pre
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07/21/2020
There are three questions I expect to hear from any potential home seller:1. How much is my home worth?2. How quickly will it sell?3. What's your commission?Although some sellers don't ask #3. They already know what we do, how we go about it, trust us to get the job done and they're going to
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07/20/2020
It's not uncommon for out of state buyers and sellers to find us.And while normally we'll eventually meet our clients face to face, that's not always the case.Thanks to online tools, smartphones and other tools, it's become easier to help clients without ever meeting them face to face.Today we ha
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07/19/2020
With time and the right kind of effort, results will follow.Over the last decade we've written a lot of blog posts.We've created a fair number of long tail IDX search pages.Google My Business spots claimed.Google custom maps created for our niche.The net result is we've grown our digital footprin
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07/18/2020
In my professional and personal life I find people who fall into one of two categories:"Go To" or "Go Away".This week Liz and I needed a new queen bee for one of our hives. A long term queenless hive is destined for failure and it's critical to quickly get a new queen introduced to the hive so t
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07/17/2020
*Greater Cincinnati is a prime target area for those selling vacation homes in Tennessee and Kentucky. And why not, a fairly short drive from Cincinnati and you've got mountains, lakes, woods and more to enjoy.So I've gotten used to receiving marketing pieces in my mailbox. Jumbo full color pos
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07/16/2020
Beauties like this log cabin home may be common in some parts of the country, but they're not so common in Greater Cincinnati! After taking a break during the COVID shutdown, we brought this home back on the market in late May to find that JUST RIGHT buyer for this gorgeous log cabin home on alm
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07/15/2020
5 minutes doesn't seem like a lot of time does it?But 5 minutes or less can make big differences in how our customers perceive us and how we can get more done. You don't work two careers and be an unofficial zookeeper without learning a few things about productivity.Prime example: It's almost t
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07/14/2020
In our market, the typical home buying process involves potential home buyers initiating the negotiation process. The buyers work with their agent to complete a purchase offer with the ultimate goal of arriving at acceptable terms for the seller and the buyer.But sometimes buyers may be on the f
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07/13/2020
"I'm a CASH buyer!".And that often translates to a buyer who assumes they should get a discount because they're paying cash.But how does that translate for a seller?In most cases, there's some additional seller confidence about the deal completing (although I can't say I've never had a cash deal
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07/12/2020
