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I am often gallivanting around on real estate forums giving out sage advice to consumers. My mantra for about the past, I don’t know, five years or so to consumers has been…look at the photos taken by an agent online. When a seller is going to get a home ready for sale, they should take…
I’m always chatting with real estate agents around the country to see, who is doing what in terms of new marketing. I’m always looking for new ideas to market my real estate listings here in the Salem area. I was chatting with a really great Colts Neck, NJ real estate agent, Andrew Lenza about the…
Selling a home in Salem Oregon Some time ago, I was chatting with another agent about one of my homes for sale in Salem Oregon. Her client had made an offer and things were not going well for a bunch of reasons…reasons that I couldn’t tell her about. The agent was frustrated with me and…
A recently wrote a post about someone that listed with another agent because I told her that her home needed to be staged. Envisioning all of her furniture in storage somewhere and one black chair in her living room, she passed on my advice. Most often, when I recommend staging, I recommend that we use…
Earlier this year I “lost” a listing. That’s what we agents say when a home seller chooses to go with another company. I am a call it as I see it type of person, and with this seller, I said the words “your home needs to be staged to sell. It won’t photograph well.” I…
SmartMoney wrote a brief article the other day called “10 things your real estate broker won’t tell you.” I just wanted to give my .005 cents worth about that article. 1) “Your open house is really just a networking party for me.” Is the number one thing that agents won’t tell you about selling your…
Apparently, Aumsville Oregon missed the real estate memo letting them know that the market stinks everywhere. Really it is supposed to be horrible everywhere per the media. This small town seems confused because their current inventory is a mere 3.8 months. Apparently, no one sent, or those Aumsvillians? Aumsvillites? didn’t read it because 3.85 months…
I had posted last month about Silverton Oregon’s real estate market stubbornness and sellers unwilling to concede that home prices needed to drop. I’d take credit for the correction that occurred there, but I know I really don’t have that much control over the market… Home prices seem to have finally started correcting this quarter. …
Did you know in real estate that there is a term that floats around…deal killers. This is what some Salem Oregon real estate agents call home inspectors that are “nit picky.” Some home inspectors were renamed deal killers by “wrong thinking” agents because they were actually good at what they do. They “killed deals” because…
I used to do drama in high school and one of the school plays was Arsenic and Old Lace. In 1944 it was made into a movie starring Cary Grant and the premise behind it was that a man finds out that his beloved aunts are homicidal maniacs that poison people with arsenic. It’s a…