Who Should Get Out Of The Real Estate Business? July 28, 2008
Dustin, Jillayne, Rhonda, Galen and I were all in San Francisco for a few days for The Inman Connect Conference. One of the most profound and spot on statements I heard at the Conference was “If you do not have a listing, right now, in THIS market (top-heavy with inventory)…turn in your license!”. Sorry I can’t remember [...]
Next Week on Rain City Radio: Tim Ellis June 25, 2008
Fresh off an great conversation with Tracy Record of the West Seattle Blog, I’m really excited to have Tim on our show next week! I’m sure we’ll talk about all things Seattle bubble as well as Tim’s great new parody project: Naked Loon.
Please set aside Tuesday, July 1st at 4pm to join us! And if [...]
Warning to Thurston County agents - and this goes for FSBO folks too… March 3, 2008
February 25, 2008. The NWMLS has received information (Thurston County area) concerning a male individual who looked at homes with an agent — all of the information he provided about himself and his employment was false. He claims to be a buyer’s consultant with the Federal Government, a PhD in Physics, his wife a professor [...]
A Thanksgiving Real Estate Story November 18, 2007
I’m greatful that I get to work in this wonderful world of real estate sales. Every family that is buying or selling a home has a story to tell me. Every investor renting, buying or selling a building or entrepreneur buying or selling a business brings the agent into their lives during the transaction and often long lasting friendships are forged. What I [...]
Update on ‘Fix and Flip’ October 16, 2007
Last Thursday night at the monthly REIA meeting, Than Merrill from A&E’s Flip this House presented an informative glance into his working business model. Than does more than 120 flips a year at an average of $27,000 each. Although he just started 3 years ago, Than is making millions using a system that he partially nabbed from other fix and flip [...]
7 reasons to make sure your agent can read well… July 16, 2007
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 [...]
Cats alive! July 11, 2007
Last week I took a young couple out to look at houses in a 3-city area. We were working on determining what areas north of Seattle might be places they’d like to consider moving to. To begin our research my clients had picked 6 houses they thought would be interesting to see and in different [...]
Time for Traditional Agents to Get Real and Come Clean May 16, 2007
Seriously, this whole “6% is sancrosanct” crap is just a joke and a misnomer.
Here’s the reality. It often takes 6% of WHATEVER to close it out, to make it happen, for all parties to accomplish the final objective.
Where does that 6% go? Depends on the sale price and the events that take place. I have [...]
Sellers — are you getting SC@EWED by the lender? Fight back! May 2, 2007
Over the last few weeks, there have been a few posts here on RCG discussing the means by which loan originators enhance their income by “harvesting” seller paid closing costs that otherwise would have been retained by the seller. In a nutshell, the process works like this: In the purchase and sale agreement, seller agrees to pay “up [...]
I’ve been waiting since September of 2005 April 26, 2007
to announce that Sellsius has launched!
Check it out at: Sellsius Real Estate
Congrats to both Rudy and Joe!
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