Are you thinking of selling your home? If you're in a hurry, just contact me and we can get started right away. If you prefer to conduct a full investigation and make an educated decision, great - know the difference between honest salespeople and the order-takers or...
This has had over 873,000 views on Facebook in the last week:
The standard knee-jerk response about pocket listings is to insist that some sellers don't want to be on the open market for personal reasons, and that's fine. In reality, those should be limited to major Hollywood icons who are unsure of how much their star-power...
The FTC and DOJ conducted a workshop this week about the competitiveness in real estate. There hasn't been much press coverage, but Rob has summed up the bulk of it here: [button link="http://www.notorious-rob.com/2018/06/brief-reflections-on-the-doj-ftc-panel/"...
Last week I mentioned the problems with agents selling houses before inputting their listing onto the MLS (link here). Agents are so accustomed to doing it that there isn't much hope it will change, at least not until an outsider puts an end to it (district attorney...
They paid $410,000 and are listing for $425,000? Are they expecting a bidding war? By the way, OpenDoor has 300 listings in Phoenix already! Hat tip to daytrip for sending this in - an excerpt: Noel Levine, a freelance IT consultant and self-described geek, said he...
What never gets mentioned is that every realtor has signed an agreement to share their listings with one another. This is how realtors are destroying the industry from within - because we foster the illusion of having a cooperative MLS but are happy to deprive our...
It's been an old wives tale that listing agents can't disclose to a buyer's agent the price and terms of competing offers. I found this at the N.A.R. website: Real estate brokers may, unless prohibited by law or regulation, “shop” offers. Therefore, REALTORS®...
Whoever spends the most money on advertising will win, and Zillow spends around $100,000,000 per year. Who can keep up? In the video he says that 90% of the home sellers chose to hire an agent, rather than sell to Zillow: Nearly one year ago, Zillow shook up the...
My new listing in west Carlsbad has strong estimates of value: I mention in the video that the house across the street just sold for $1,325,000, but it's not on the MLS - it was an off-market sale. Will it help propel our sale? Maybe - as long as buyers...
