Real Estate Training and Education
With the changing of economies in the housing sector over the past half dozen years, many wonder, “How does that affect my decision to rent vs. buy a home? Is renting a better bet? If not, is now a good time to buy?” According to a new analysis by Zillow the “Breakeven Horizon” in seventy-five [...]
Niche Opportunity – Rentals/Investors/Management As Property Managers for Coldwell Banker Bain, we lease and manage single family residences, individual condo units and small apartment complexes in the greater Puget Sound region, which includes Seattle, Tacoma, Federal Way, Lynnwood & Anacortes/Oak Harbor. Today our management portfolio has grown to over 500 individual properties. We work with [...]
WHY NOT NOW? Every year around this time, I hear “the holidays are coming” repeated approximately every three minutes, by real estate brokers looking for an excuse to stop “working”….and by working, I mean “prospecting”, “listing homes” and “showing homes” (it gets dark earlier, have you noticed?) For several reasons I would like to dispel [...]
Recently, I was chatting with Mike Grady (President of CBBain) about the differences between the Greater Seattle housing market this year and last. We were talking because the NWMLS had just released their market stats for October, and three things really stood out. First, the inventory of homes for sale in King County was down substantially year over [...]
The #swaggagurlz have been preachin’ for months that consumers admit to believing a mere 14% of what business owners “advertise” about themselves. They are no longer interested in WHO is #1, but how their experience will be with the business or salesperson. They want to hear from other people who have done business with them… [...]
The Principal Managing Brokers (sometimes known as Branch Managers) have spent many hours discussing how to measure the customer experience, once the transaction closes. Shall we send surveys? Shall we call or email or text the customer? If the goal is to provide the best possible experience for our customers, how do we measure up? [...]
Dick Fulton,Executive Vice President shares with you why this is the perfect time for investment properties. Low Rates, Low Prices and High Rents equal the perfect storm for smart investors to build long term equity and near term cash flow.
FROM THE TRENCHES #2 Years ago, I wrote an article for the local MLS newsletter, entitled: I Have Found the Enemy & It Is Us! It popped into my head today while I was chatting with an experienced, highly productive real estate broker. Our conversation skirted around the frustration surfacing in every transaction, whether you are [...]
Back in the late 60’s and early 70’s, a popular phrase was added to the American cultural lexicon; The Silent Majority. This phrase was intended to describe the vast number of U.S. citizens who were not protesting, sitting-in, dropping-out or otherwise doing anything overt about the important issues of the day. It was meant to [...]
FROM THE TRENCHES… Contracts? Purchase Agreements? Listing Agreements? What’s the big deal? For the past 36 years, I have watched the evolving process of listing and selling real estate with curiosity and concern. Just how complicated does it need to be? Trust me when I tell you how simple it was in 1975 (you probably [...]
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