2020 is nearly over! I think I am not alone in feeling like this year has been challenging and that I will be glad to have it behind me! However, no one knows what 2021 will bring. Will it bring more of the same or will it bring new challenges? Who know? What I do…
Let’s face it. If you don’t have a stream of people that want to buy or sell a home, you are not going to be able to stay in the real estate business! That’s a simple fact of life and there is no way around it. The fact is that you are going to have…
I’ve been thinking about where next year’s business is going to come from…have you been thinking about that too? Since I do a LOT of reading to find things to post about in this blog, I often run across some ideas that are good, but that I don’t want to devote a whole blog post…
RPR or Realtor Property Resource is a FREE tool that is offered as part of your membership in your local Association of REALTORS®. It is actually an offering of the National Association of REALTORS® and you access it by going to http://www.narrpr.com with any web browser. Once there you are confronted with a wide variety…
As I write this, it’s mid-November, 2020. Among other things, that means that the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has wrapped up its annual convention. And if the convention is wrapped up, this means that they have published their annual Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers and made it available for you to download here:…
Halloween is out of the way, so Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are on the horizon. Traditionally this meant a slow down in real estate sales. But, this year? Who knows? We may or may not experience a slow down over the holiday season. One thing for sure though, as agents we need a consistent,…
Here we are in November and the raging dumpster fire that has been 2020 continues to rage on. The Presidential election has been held, but the results are still murky to the point that it may be some time before we know who will take the oath of office in January. Covid-19 has altered the…
It wasn’t so very long ago, that some tech pundits proclaimed the death of QR codes. (Do a Google Search on “the death of QR codes” to see what I mean). The writers wanted us to believe that newer technologies were more reliable and easier to use. In truth, in the early days of…
Here we are in the final quarter of the wild circus known as 2020! I hope that you have been having a good year in your business in spite of all that has gone on and is going on! Here in Contra Costa County, we have FINALLY been allowed to have indoor church/temple/mosque services and…
Have you done a listing presentation via Zoom yet? How about working with buyers going over reports? (Or any other “conference style” meetings with clients?) If not, you probably will sooner or later. Zoom seems to have insinuated itself into all aspects of our customer and colleague facing business. One of the issues that I…
