Ron Trzcinski's Blog

I Am Being Stalked How was your visit to McDonald's?  Would you like to share? What?!  I wasn't at McDonald's.  I drove past one but I was not there. How was your visit to Chick-fil-a? You followed me into Chick-fil-a?!  What do you want?! Would you like to take a photo at Chick-fil-a? So you can...

Online Auctioneer Makes Things Difficult Let's start with the auctioneer listing and pricing a property. There is one house that was listed at $35,000.  My client bid up to $39,000.  He did not have the winning bid, but neither did anyone else.  Normally when a house is listed at a particular pri...

It Was My First Trail Run of the Year It's winter so we have had low temperatures and wind, snow and cold rain, and short dreary days and long chilly nights. But, yesterday it was a clear and calm mid-February day with temperatures in the mid 60s.  It was a perfect day for a run.  I chose to run ...

Home Buyers Are Being Sold for Over $3,000 An unsuspecting person decides to buy a house and starts the search for that house on the internet. Starting the search on the internet makes sense because there is a ton of information on the internet, including almost every house that is for sale. Not ...

The Deal Falls Through. Do You Take a Cut of the EMD? The documentation that I use when I list a property has a statement about the earnest money deposit (EMD). Basically it states what percentage of the EMD will go to my brokerage if a deal falls through and if it is agreed that the EMD will be ...

HOA Resale Package; $175 for a Web Site Link Homes with a home owners' association (HOA) require that a HOA Resale Package be provided by the seller to the buyer in a sales transaction. HOAs are not for profit entities, but the firms that manage them are for profit entities. To get the HOA Resale...

Parkville, MD: Hot and Affordable The neighborhood of Parkville Maryland is one of the Hottest Affordable neighborhoods in the nation. You don't have to take my word for it.  An analysis was done by Redfin where they determined that three Baltimore area neighborhoods were ranked among the top ten...

Work Monday for Free & I'll Pay You for Working Tuesday and Wednesday How many people would work for someone who gave this as the payment terms? Apparently some real estate agents will work for these terms. How many times has someone asked if you would give them a discount for listing their house...

Got a Match; Got a Match; Got a Match . . . .  I was in Baltimore City driving up the street to one of my listings.  When I got to the block where my listing was, there was a guy on the sidewalk who was waving as if he had something for me.  I am certain that he did not have anything that I wante...

He says: "I'm a Wholesaler; I've got a Buyer for your listing". If he had said: "I'm a Real Estate Agent; I've got a buyer for your listing", then I would have said good, send me an offer. If he had said: "I'm a buyer; I'm interested in buying your listing", then  I would have asked if he had a r...