By Russell Shaw on March 20, 2010
Here is a link from an email I just received. The people writing at this website http://narscandal.com/ may or may not have something worthwhile to say. But there is pretty much nothing they will ever say that will get any applause from me. Why? …
Posted in NAR, Realtors | Tagged NAR
By Russell Shaw on February 27, 2010
I have to admit – even I was surprised at this one. I’ve previously written about Bank of America’s handling (sometimes an interesting word choice) of short sales. I’ve written about how they have foreclosed on homes – by continuing with their foreclosure process…
Posted in Mortgage | Tagged bank of america, short sales
By Russell Shaw on February 11, 2010
Maybe I should have titled this post, “Attention All Lawyers – Bank of America Has Lots of Free Money For You”. What you are about to read might seem like something out of a Franz Kafka novel or a Salvador Dali painting that was…
Posted in Coaching, Mortgage, Realtors
By Russell Shaw on January 26, 2010
One of the more remarkable methods used (even by “Intelligence Agencies”) to establish if something is true or not is to is to label it true if it came from a “reliable source”. Who said it? If he or she is considered reliable or…
Posted in Economy | Tagged Economy, Real Estate
By Russell Shaw on January 16, 2010
A friend of mine and fellow John Hall & Associates agent, Leif Swanson was recently featured in the Arizona Republic. What prompted me to post it is it is regarding his blog, Ugly House Photos. As there are so many readers here who really…
Posted in Marketing, Silly
By Russell Shaw on December 27, 2009
For his ground breaking book, “Good To Great“, Jim Collins and his research team looked into just about every public company in the United States to find those companies that made the transition from good to great. Good is the enemy of great –…
Posted in Mortgage, Public Relations, Realtors
By Russell Shaw on December 27, 2009
I’ve personally written about B of A Short Sales before and so have many others. I don’t know if this will get any real traction but below is an unedited (and unsolicited) email I received that was sent out to Realtors across the country.…
Posted in Mortgage | Tagged Mortgage, short sale
By Russell Shaw on December 26, 2009
I haven’t been blogging much lately (for some months) and needed an easy one to get myself started again. The gift to me is being able to post this here now. The gift to you is a really (really really) cool book from Seth…
Posted in Marketing | Tagged seth godin
By Russell Shaw on October 1, 2009
Top Tweeter
It is no secret around the internet that I am the top Tweeter, Favorite Facer and was the first My Spacer ever. So it is only right that I be the one to bring you this:
Turn your sound up.
Posted in Social Media | Tagged Social Media
By Russell Shaw on September 23, 2009
This post started as a comment to Matthew Rathbun’s brilliant post. At the end I decided to make it a post
Truly a great post, Matthew!
I believe that the bulk of the clamor for “more professionalism” that emanates from agents is mostly self-serving…
Posted in Coaching, Ethics, Public Relations, Realtors | Tagged Real Estate
