Hey idiot listing agents! Put more than one photo in the MLS system. I was looking at beach front condos today in the MLS and found a few listed for around $2,000,000 that had one photo and no virtual tours. How the hell do you expect to sell a property with one photo? When Realtors [...]
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009It Brings a Smile
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Cruising through MLS today I noticed a home for sale on Siesta Key. The home looked familiar to me. I finally realized that I turned down the listing on this particular home in the summer of 2007 because the owner was unrealistic about its value. I told the seller to list the property for $899,000 [...]
Luck
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Does it say “Tour Guide” on my forehead?
Monday, March 30th, 2009So I get a series of emails last weekend from a prospect. He was asking about some condos in the Sarasota, Florida area and wanted more information on the condos. He wanted to set up appointments to see a few of them this coming weekend – April 4th. I sent him more information on the [...]
Home Sales Up, But Not Prices – No Kidding!
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Home sales up, but not prices
No kidding! That was headline of an article written by the brilliant Tom Bayles and Aaron Kessler. Did anyone actually think that home prices rose recently? You can’t read a newspaper or turn on the news without hearing something about the housing meltdown. I bet it is pretty obvious to [...]
Some Buyers Are Assholes
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009I was working with a Canadian family about a year ago. They were looking for a vacation condo on the beach up to about $1.3 million. On their first visit I showed them everything for sale on Lido Key, Longboat Key and Siesta Key that matched their requirements. We must have seen around 20 properties. [...]
Sun, Sand, Shopping and Annoying a Realtor
Thursday, February 12th, 2009What it is about tourists that makes them want to go look at property while they are on vacation? I don’t get it. The last thing that I would want to do on vacation is go look at real estate that I am not going to buy. Go play on the beach, shop, eat, drink alcohol, be silly, [...]
