Rain City Guide

In the comment thread to a recent post, Ardell wrote:
You can’t just tell people they should or should not have an attorney the same way that you can’t tell them they should or should not have a real estate agent LOL! Either can be a waste of money if you have the wrong [...]

Hi everyone,
I can’t give you the whole list here in a blog post, as it is against one of the many mls rules But tomorrow there will be at least 15 Open Houses in Bryant.  Many agents from different offices have gotten together to have their properties open tomorrow.  Most from 1-4, but some [...]

Being in the escrow business is really fascinating. You see lots of things. You hear lots of things. You get to observe what is efficient and what slows down transactions.
Escrow can be confusing too. We really serve two masters: those that are our clients (the principals such as the seller or [...]

or more interestingly, are you going to my presentation on Tuesday morning?
If so, I’d love to know. I’m just finishing up the presentation now and would love to include a few screenshots of people’s blogs who will be in the audience.

By the way, the impetus for this blog post is that I like to localize [...]

There have been a lot of discussions lately regarding Blogging, both it’s merits and potential for fallout on many levels. The problem with trying to keep Blogging under wraps: If you do, you have the potential for political backlash, both from the agents that build the brand of the broker (Re/Max, Windermere, [...]

A while back I posted an outline I had for a presentation I was giving to group at CAR (California Association of Realtors). I got some awesome feedback from the RCG community that definitely helped improve the presentation (Thank you!!!).
On Wednesday, I’m giving a different presentation at Keller Williams’ Mega Technology [...]

Today, the Washington State Insurance Commission, ordered Stewart Title Guaranty Company to stop illegal payment and gifts to agents and Brokers.

“Kreidler’s order demands that Stewart Title Guaranty Company “immediately cease and desist” giving or paying anything in excess of $25, calculated in aggregate over a 12-month period, per person, for placing or causing title insurance [...]

I’m not addressing whether or not your agent has dyslexia or if they are perhaps illiterate.  No, I’m putting out there that there can occasionally be a lack of reading on the part of an agent when it comes to documents that may be very important to purchase of a property. Rather than focus on [...]

Two Northwestern University economists have found that for sale by owners (FSBOs) in Madison sell for slightly more or about the same as houses represented by agents in the area, figuring that after commission costs the FSBO sellers came out ahead. There are some comments in the article about the National Association or Realtor’s (bogus) [...]

Jan at the logical dog has set up a petition that requests the NWMLS board to reverse it’s decision and continue sending listings to Realtor.com.
This got me thinking about the often-interesting dynamic between the “best interests” of brokers vs the “best interest” of agents, which is something I’ve heard Russ Cofano talk to quite [...]