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I’m am having a hard time creating a plan for getting started on my real estate business. I feel I don’t know enough information to feel confident enough to guide someone in the process of buying or selling real estat...
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3 times in just the past week I’ve witnessed sellers discriminate against buyers because of either race or sex. Humans simply can’t be trusted not to discriminate if given the chance. We’ve put laws in place to make d...
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Sorry, this is more venting than anything else but I'm curious if anyone else has had similar experiences...Our first realtor wasn't that great, particularly on communication and actually submitting offers (although w...
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I bought a piece of property that ended up having five brothers that had to sign off on it they wanted nothing to do with the house so they signed quitclaim deeds (notarized) and one brother who signed over a grant de...
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I’ve been fortunate enough to have found success owning my own business for the last 4 years. It pretty much runs itself at this point and I only have to put in less than 15 hours a week into it. In my quest to find w...
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I am relocating so I have a new realtor I have never used in the past. She has been very good so far. However, when I told her I wanted to submit the first offer, she called me and strongly urged me to use a local len...
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Being a commissioned sales person myself, I understand there is a certain amount of time that you must invest in someone to build the relationship before you can really claim them as a client and claim ownership of th...
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As a new agent, I am in the process of setting up my operation. I am treating being an agent as a business instead of a job/career. I was wondering if any agents out there would like to share any tips or best practice...
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My family owns a 3 acre piece of Land in Revere MA, minutes from Boston. It has been a commercial rental with warehouses to a trucking company for 20+ years and the tenant is now leaving. I realize the future of thi...
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I was just throwing ideas around in my head and was thinking... Has anybody ever heard of a strategy along the lines of:1: Showing homes in need of repair to potential home buyers2: Have the potential homebuyers tell ...