As landlords and property managers, we all love rent-paying, non-destructive tenants. We hate the rest, but that’s another story. No matter how much tenant love you may have, if you want to sell your house for the highest and best price, even the best tenant can be a detriment. Why? It takes a lot . . . → Read More: The Risks Of Selling A Rental Property With A Tenant
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Source Realtor.com Working in real estate has its share of dangers. Real estate agents need to keep personal safety in mind when working with the public since almost everyone agents come in contact with is a complete stranger. Worst of all, you’re all alone with this person, in unoccupied houses, in your car . . . → Read More: Real Estate At It’s Most Dangerous  Does The House On Your MLS Listing Look Like This? Would You Buy This House? The flat-fee listing agency type of service has been around for a while. A flat-fee listing gives you the opportunity to have your house listed on MLS for a flat fee plus the buyer’s commission. Usually a flat-fee listing involves the agent adding your house to the local multiple listing service (MLS), giving you a sign for the yard, a lockbox for the door and registering you in the centralized showing system that agents use to setup appointments for showings, if your local real estate market uses a scheduling service. There are other options available to you but for those are the basic service you should insist on. From that point, you’re on your own. You market your house, conduct showings and open house tours, etc. You represent yourself and take care of all the little details. I’m not going to argue the pros and cons of flat-fee -vs- full-service listing services, because I believe both have their own merits. However, I do want to ask flat-fee clients, are you too cheap for your own good?
Many thanks to Mary Umberger for a great article. This article gives a little background on what we’re trying to accomplish with Really Rotten Realty and AgentHarvest’s blogs. Plus, it’s a fun read and well written. http://www.inman.com/news/2010/08/16/meet-maker-really-rotten-realty?utm_source=Twttrfd&utm_medium=Twttr&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inmannews+%28Inman+News+-+Headlines%29  Just Another Happy UVerse Customer Please excuse the spotty network availability of our websites during the past two weeks. On Tuesday, July 20, which will be forever known by my company as “Black Tuesday,” we upgraded our AT&T DSL internet services to the new AT&T Uverse for a faster Internet connection. You might have experienced access problems during those weeks while we fixed problems and changed over to new IP addresses. Unfortunately, you probably experienced problems accessing our sites or emailing us for a few weeks afterwards. Our experience with UVerse during the past few weeks had its ups and downs. Unfortunately, those ups and downs were in the form of Internet connectivity with our web and mail servers. We still don’t have an active fax line as a result of the upgrade either. However that should be fixed by Thursday, August 18.
Thinking about having an open house or creating a virtual tour to sell your home? Be careful not to reveal to much about your house. Not only do open houses, virtual tours, brochures, and MLS pictures attract buyers, but if you reveal too many details, you could be advertising to thieves and burglars too. Thieves love virtual tours and MLS pictures because they can be used to “case” your house from the comfort of the thief’s home. Follow these tips to reduce your exposure and prevent your marketing activities from attracting the wrong type of shopper?  Categories - Selling Your House Tags - FSBO, house pictures, open house, photographing rooms, real estate agent, virtual tour
Shortly after launching our Really Rotten Realty website last month, we were reminded of the difference between Realtors and real estate agents. That reminder came in the form of a friendly request from the National Association of Realtors’ legal department about the correct use of their trademark. Without thinking, we interchanged the word Realtor for real estate agent in a couple of sentences scattered throughout our site that described AgentHarvest’s real estate agent finder services. Even though the term Realtor was used positively to describe quality agents, it’s still a trademark violation nonetheless. It was an oversight on my part that was promptly corrected and I want to thank The National Association of Realtors for bringing that oversight to my attention in the kind manner in which it was relayed. The Trademark Administrator for NAR, Mary Newill also provided me with lots of information regarding the correct usage of the word Realtor. Apparently she said that this misuse is quite common, even for Realtors. Case in point since I misused the term and I’m also a Realtor. Seeing as this is such a common problem, I decided to share the information she relayed to me. Categories - Real Estate Industry Tags - National Association of Realtors, real estate agent, realtor
Expect calls from lying real estate agents trying to weasel their way into your home to steal away your listing. Failure to see through their lies may result in hiring a real estate agent that you will not be happy with. Here are a few of the most common lies you’ll hear from real estate agents when your listing expires.  Is this your agent? According to the “2009 Profile of Texas Homebuyers and Sellers” study conducted by the Texas Association of Realtors, 8 out of 10 sellers said that they would not use the same agent again to sell their house. The survey doesn’t mention why sellers wouldn’t use the same agent again, but the Texas Association of Realtors speculates that it could be attributed to sellers no longer living in that agent’s area or that agents do not spend enough effort staying in contact with past clients. I think there are other reasons the article doesn’t want to admit. Rarely is it a good idea to use the same agent that sold your last house to sell your current house. You should focus on finding an agent that is successful in your new neighborhood instead of using your old agent that was an expert in your old neighborhood. Successful real estate agents focus on a targeted area and because of that focus, they perform better in certain areas than they would in other areas. So the same agent that you used to sell your last house may not perform as well selling your current house.
The iPad 2 has been out for awhile and like every other earthling, I am drooling over the possibilities of the iPad 3 and hang on every rumor involving the iPhone 5. Besides being a gateway drug to buy all things Apple, my iPad and iPhone have freed me greatly from my PC . . . → Read More: Top 10 Real Estate Applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad Categories - Real Estate Technology Tags - Apple iPhone and iPad, real estate applications, technology
Categories - Selling Your House Tags - About AgentHarvest, buying season, curb appeal, house pictures, real estate market, selling season, staging
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