How have you been spending your time at home these past few months? After the initial shock of being confined, I did enjoy the relative peace and quiet of just doing nothing. That lasted a few days but after that, I had to start doing some constructive things! One of the things that I did…
Got a question for you. Since we have all been under “house arrest” for the past few months, what have you done with your time to advance your business? Once you got over the initial shock of being forced to make major changes in your life and business, what have you done to recalibrate…
When I started in real estate in 1986 I struggled to find a way to find clients to work with. I tried so many ways to reach people that I was pretty much the joke in the office. I felt like the hamster in the wheel. But, one of the things that I tried…
If you are a member of the National Association of REALTORS® here in the United States (Or an International Member) you have access to RPR, the Realtors Property Resource®. If you haven’t heard of it, then here is a bit of info about it: RPR is an exclusive online real estate database providing REALTORS® with…
Back in the early days of my career, I was told to place five business cards next to my car keys each night before I went to bed. The idea was that I had to meet five new people each day and give them my business card and get their contact information…before I could come…
Here in California we are still under quarantine and doing our best to keep our businesses running. Personally, I have kept my daily routine pretty much intact and have converted my business practices from face to face meetings with agents to phone calls and Zoom meetings. I have had a ton of questions from agents…
So, here we are about 5 days into an enforced order to stay at home. The local Board of REALTORS® has removed all showing instructions from Active listings on the MLS in an effort to keep agents from showing homes. So far, real estate has been labeled a non essential business so we are all…
If you are reading this then it’s safe to say that the first quarter of 2020 is almost in the books already! Only 39 more weeks to make something happen this year! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you an easy way to mine the nuggets that this blog contains. I am…
I’ve got some questions for you this week. See if you can answer them all and then share the questions and your answers with some one who can give you an objective analysis of them. Why are you a real estate agent? What was your motivation for becoming an agent in the first place, and…
Well it’s that time of year again! April 15th, the day taxes are due to the IRS is about a month and half away. I thought that I’d curate some tax info for REALTORS® as this week’s post! There really is only ONE authority on US taxes and that is the IRS. If you are…
