If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I found a fantastic blog, and for those of you that aren’t reading it, go.  I don’t always agree with the tactics, but I’m in sync with the ethos 100% of the time.  Some things that he advocates have […]

I had a great opportunity to help out Ruschele with one of the buyer’s classes that Harris Real Estate University puts on. Was a good class…had good
I promised my service standards report, and it’s a service agreement that I have signed between the Realtor and Buyer:

Revenue Neutral: I promise to make my […]

One of the things that I really enjoy doing is updating Realtors on deals in process.  This was a key part of me learning to offer closings in 10 days.  I don’t have to eal with that many interruptions.  Every Listing–and Selling agent gets an email
Every morning.
An example:
“Dear Realtor-
Today is the 2nd day the file […]

Each morning I spend my time scouring the RE Net for good, actionable posts and commentary about how the market is doing, how we are doing and stuff you can change in your business.  This week’s highlights:
 
MUST READ NO MATTER WHAT:
If you read one thing:
Lenderama: Do you know where your clients come from
If you read […]

There are more shady and scuzzy mortgage brokers than there are shady and scuzy Realtors.  This is a fact.  There are a lot of reasons why–while it’s easy to get your real estate license, it’s dead simple to get your license to originate loans.  And, the path to money is more quick because of Internet […]

Everyone seems to be wagging their fingers right now at the banks for not learning the lessons of the S&L crisis in the 1980’s. 
Oh, Contraire.  As the Becker-Posner blog points out,  the banks DID learn lessons from the S+L crisis.  A grossly abbreviated summary:  thrifts and S&L’s made spectacularly bad loans, betting big on […]

I have my feed reader down to a few hundred(!) items.  I’ve finally done what Athol suggests, and that’s to create a ghetto for feeds that add a little less fun to my day.
Anyway:  
Declining Markets-  We learn from Shailesh that appraisers can deem a market declining.  When that happens, I want MY BUYERS to […]

Go Bucks, right? Today, Mike is at New Orleans to make the pilgrimage that Tressel gets us two every other year or so. Let’s go Ohio, represent well. I have a feeling that we’re gonna lose the national championship game three years in a row, though. Still, if there’s a […]