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This week we had a post on our ACRE® Coaching Exchange about using the consulting model for assisting clients involved with short sales and foreclosures.The post resulted in a very spirited discussion given how many consumers are under water with their homes.However, it seems to me that many prof...
03/07/2011
In discussions about commissions and other compensation alternatives on AR, it's clear that there is a lot of confusion amongst real estate professionals about real estate consulting which is catching fire. Many confuse the consulting model with the old fee-for-service offerings that charge barga...
03/01/2011
HBR (The Home Buying Revolution) is putting out some great videos and here's another one that brings out the ironies that we work under: The Realtor & Her Doctor. See if you agree!  
01/24/2011
Laura Giannotta wrote a thoughtful post and I fully agree with her premise that NAR should be promoting REALTORs. However, no amount of ethics training will take away the basic conflict of interest when we are asked to act as objective fiduciaries when the amount of our compensation or whether we...
01/14/2011
Since Margaret Rome's post: Give Yourself a Gift of Education..Consider Real Estate Consulting! we've had lots of enrollments from AR. But we've also received some questions regarding what ACRE® is all about and more importantly why are we offering it at no charge??? So, if you've been wondering,...
01/09/2011
I'm currently writing a book due out in September. Unlike my previous book, where I had a traditional publisher who took care of everything (financially and otherwise) but left me a minuscule royalty on my books that sold, I went a different route this time. I hired a "Book Shepherd".Follow me on...
07/07/2010
A recent post in Active Rain asked very simply "When Do Realtors Stop Working for Free?" She mentioned that she: "got an email today from a colleague who is a real estate investor. He is very savvy and someone who "gets" it. His advice can be summed up in a couple of snippets. If we are as smart...
06/28/2010
"Don't get too close to me...I have a cold!" We have believed for so long that breathing the same air will spread germs, that it's almost a given. But if you talk to medical professionals, they will tell you that colds and viruses are rarely spread by breathing the same air. It's the exchange of...
06/22/2010
I'm very pleased to let you know that I will be a guest of Jennifer Allen (Author of Sell with Soul) on Saturday morning, June 19th at 11:30 EDT as a part of her "soulful" series. The subject is Real Estate Commissions - Answering the Tough Questions.If you dread that part of the listing intervie...
06/01/2010
I'm in the process of writing an updated and revised edition of my book "Ripping the Roof off Real Estate" and I need some help getting my hands on some statistics. In the chapter "The Unrepresented Seller" I quoted a stat from the 2005 NAR Home Buyer Seller Survey showing that REALTOR-assisted ...
04/27/2010
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