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Today has been overcast all day and the promise of rain by all those clouds did not materialize. At least, the overcast skies kept the temperature in the low 80's in stead of high 90's. From everything we are being told by the weather people, we are now about 20 inches behind in rainfall and ...
08/16/2008
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Over my 12 years in Real Estate Sales, I have worked with several Realtors who were planning or exploring moving to our area. Without a doubt, I can tell you that most are far worse than the normal buyer moving here who wants to work with a Realtor. The Realtor-buyer wants to know the market, w...
08/15/2008
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This was sent to me today by my cousin and after reading it, I wanted to share it with all the AR people and people who may visit. We take so much for granted and we don't always agree, but where else do we have the freedoms we have in this country. A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the ReUn...
08/15/2008
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In almost every one of the 12 years I've been in Real Estate Sales, June has historically, been a good month, but remained modest in 2008. It also remained modest in July as well in comparison to 2007 same time frame. In June 2008, we were down by -938 units from the same YTD time in 2007. Ther...
08/14/2008
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The Ingredients: One capable and competent Seller's Agent One Reasonable and Motivated Seller A great, well cared for home, priced right One capable and competent Buyer's Agent One Reasonable, Approved & Movivated Buyer After the offer, negotiations on price and closing date are agreed upon and i...
08/13/2008
One more quote and other trivial matters . . . This must have been written to keep us humble: When I reached the age of 20, I worried about what people thought about me. When I reached the age of 40, I didn't care what they thought about me and when I reached the age of 60, I found out that very...
08/11/2008
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The Internet is where people are looking for homes now. About 80-85% of people begin looking on line prior to actually working with a Realtor. The magazines are a way for Realtors to keep their names out there and get more listings; they do very little to sell houses; but the sellers do like se...
08/10/2008
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Last week, a former co-worker agent with whom I worked while at another company called me to see if I wanted to have a "group open house" in a sub where we both and a couple of other Realtors have listings. She, I and other other agent agreed; only she and I showed up. The 3rd agent did not sho...
08/10/2008
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In an earlier post, I mentioned my Keller Williams Greenville Central Office was having their 2Nd annual picnic on 8/9/08. It was a great success, thanks to the fine efforts of two of our social committee, Stephanie Hylton and Crystal Corr. The food was awesome and with some on the following l...
08/10/2008
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The truth is that bossiness is, without exception, about the worst way, short of violence, in which to get anything done by others, changed by others, or accepted by others. Donald A. Laird To be honest, as the ...
08/10/2008