"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt" M for M, Act i, Sc.5 - Shakespeare I suppose there is good reason in many parts of the country to have fear regarding the housing market and financial tightening. Read More...

I woke up this morning with a positive goal in mind -- Make something happen! Your real estate career is just beginning. Good things are on the horizon. As Candice would say -- DANCE! Read More...

How many people are having their best, or close to their best, year in real estate? Read More...

I have been given the challenge to write a comparative analysis regarding the pimping profession and the real estate profession. Since I am incredibly busy creating a state of the art real estate business on the cutting edge of all known technology, I Read More...

1. Face toward the sun each morning and laugh. 2. Then, when you begin brushing your teeth and while you are brushing them, sing "On The Road Again" 3. Eat something postive for breakfast like Wheaties. 4. When you first get in your car, look in the rear-view Read More...

Real estate agent styles of doing business are like different types of music. You have the classical – the ones with the elegant websites who sell $50,000,000,000.00 homes who have elegant names like Elizabeth Harding-Vandersmilt or Roderick J. Haltmeyer. Read More...

Once again I tested the registration to view MLS listings and the no-registration. I recently changed IDX solutions so I thought I would test the two methods again. The first week I went with no-registration which in this particular system allows the Read More...

Today I got a bad signal from an appraiser. I have heard that appraisers are being pressured to come in low to avoid any appearance of fraud. I am closing on an investment property that was supposed to be appraised at the completed-renovation value – Read More...

I have often heard real estate agents called self-serving who live on the unethical border, are constantly concerned with What’s-In-It-For-Me and are prime candidates for the Megalomaniac Club. There seems to be an idea that these people are successfully Read More...

The old saying – “ You have to spend money to make money ” – is as true now as when the saying was originated. However this idea can be financially disastrous if an agent hasn’t first gained business sense and skills. Conversely, ignoring this saying Read More...

I have learned from many sources - in the seventies and eighties, I studied Rollo May, Abraham Maslow, Carl Jung and others as I was preparing for a career in psychology. However, as an aside and nod to the power of great literature, I still believe Shakespeare Read More...

(Also attributed to Alan Watts) In my previous professional life I attended hundreds of workshops, conferences and conventions, mostly listening to the same information over and over to the point of glassy eyes and a nodding head. Some speakers would Read More...

The internet is a strange and wonderful medium. We’ve all talked about it. Some would like to control it, some love it free. The fact is that it will never be controlled. You can shut down a board, you can close a website, you can ban people from a particular Read More...

I thought I would take this to a separate blog, since we now have an issue. First of all, let me repeat, I don't care what anyone else charges. If an agent wants to charge a seller $50.00 and tickets to the opera to sell their home, that's between the Read More...

We are a society that thrives on the negative and negative criticism. We started out as a postive society clearing new paths for innovation, growth and prosperity. Let's hear it for all the good realors we know. The ones who quietly do their job and do Read More...