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Real ramifications to Realtors giving mortgage advice to buyers

By Jeff Belonger on September 8, 2010 | 19 Responses

Real ramifications to Realtors giving mortgage advice to buyers

What does the word Realtor mean to you?  What would you consider your duties as a Realtor? I always find some sort of issue when reading mortgage related questions by Realtors on Trulia.  My first question would be… why do Realtors even answer these…

Opinions

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Are you the Ricky Roma or the Elle Woods of real estate sales?

By Janie Coffey on September 8, 2010 | 20 Responses

Are you the Ricky Roma or the Elle Woods of real estate sales?

I have come to realize there is a divide, a great divide among real estate agent personas.  One side sees real estate as a hand numbers game, one filled with scripts and charts and hard sales.  The movie Glengarry Glen Ross takes the persona…

Real Estate

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New Realtor.com iPhone app makes search more intuitive

By Lani Rosales on September 7, 2010 | 16 Responses

New Realtor.com iPhone app makes search more intuitive

Since launching in January 2010, the Realtor.com iPhone app has been downloaded over 1.5 million times and according to Clareity Consulting, visits, e-mail leads and phone calls from the Realtor.com real estate search iPhone app rose over 60% in the second quarter of 2010…

Tech

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Two real estate videos on how to buy a home – which is better?

By Lani Rosales on September 7, 2010 | 13 Responses

Two real estate videos on how to buy a home – which is better?

A great resource for web videos is Howcast which hosts novice and professional video about a wide array of topics. We’ve featured videos about homeowners insurance, real estate auctions, home staging and (our favorite) 10 mistakes sellers make.
Today, we bring to you two…

Marketing

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Short sales- making your real estate contract indestructible

By Melissa Zavala on September 6, 2010 | 15 Responses

Short sales- making your real estate contract indestructible

I recently joked that real estate agents do not have those cuff bracelets that Wonder Woman donned. You know, the ones that were indestructible and fended off errant bullets. And, while I am certainly not advocating that agents shoot one another, we do need…

Coaching

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HUD guidelines are creating misinformation and scare tactics

By Paula Henry on September 3, 2010 | 13 Responses

HUD guidelines are creating misinformation and scare tactics

This evening I received this forwarded email (below). It was from a local lender who sent it out, then it was forwarded to me.
The lender should have read the attached letter (in the email below), Mortgage Letter 2010-28 from FHA, before sending out…

Mortgage

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Realtors – how to get some buyers off of the fence right now

By Jeff Belonger on September 2, 2010 | 29 Responses

Realtors – how to get some buyers off of the fence right now

So you have some buyers on the fence and their mortgage payment could be an issue. For those that would be using FHA loans for their type of home financing, FHA has formally announced a change in regards to the monthly mortgage insurance and…

Mortgage

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Translating Twitter speak and garnering retweets

By Lesley Lambert on September 2, 2010 | 33 Responses

Translating Twitter speak and garnering retweets

Not long ago one of my Twitter followers who is new to social media sent me an email asking for some help “decoding” the following tweet:
RT @JoeCascio: @aubreyliciouss PodCampCT meeting and tweetup tonight in Middletown . http://goo.gl/o4TA #pcct cc: @mmpartee
After looking at…

New Media

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Minimum commission policies: good or bad business?

By Janie Coffey on September 1, 2010 | 39 Responses

Minimum commission policies: good or bad business?

With so many bargain basement deals available to buyers, some brokers are implementing a “minimum commission policy”.  They ask buyers to sign an agreement guaranteeing a commission of $X, anything less than that, the buyer makes up the difference at closing.
Many property prices…

Real Estate

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