Tim's Blog

When I first started as an agent, I learned how to do business from my manager.  Oh yes, I went to a real estate school, knew the rules/laws, took the test, etc, but that doesnt really teach how the "other" things are done.  For example, in my marketplace, we did not do "accompanied showings."  T...

I posted the other day about the newly (for me) discovered "Law of Diminishing Intentions."  This Law states, roughly, that the determination one has to accomplish a task decreases with time. Yes, I've fallen prey to this Law and I suspect most readers have too.  I suppose it is part of being hum...

I was giving a presentation recently and afterwards an agent approached me.  He said he loved some of the things I suggested and was going to implement them immediately.  I jokingly said he could at least wait until he got back to the office, and that was when he used a phrase that I had not hear...

When I was an agent (back in the day), I found it very frustrating when buyers would try to use the assessed value of a house as a guide to what they should offer.  It was tough trying to convince them that "assessed value" did not necessarily bear any relationship to "market value."  One thing I...