Sunday, January 11, 2026

Realtors

Home on De-Range – MLS Mayhem

My dear readers, friends, colleagues and fellow inmates: Please think before you participate in MLS-Speak. If you don't, you'll come off like a horse's...

Don’t Say it Just Because You Thunk It

How well have you kept up with our rapidly changing business, friends? There are certain phrases we have all heard in real estate. The...

CHASE Bank Has a Bully and Threats Division

  It appears that Chase Bank has a division that continuously checks the net for any posts or comments about them.  So it shouldn't take...

Motivational selling – finding the pleasure and pain

Sigmund Freud coined the term "The Pleasure-Pain Principal" which is as simple as it sounds.  We are biologically programmed to seek pleasure and avoid...

The New Language of Un-Real Estate

Welcome to the New World. Recently a colleague and I were discussing all the changes we have witnessed since entering the wacky world of...

What matters most about brokerages to you?

Do you remember the day you became an agent?  I wish I could, but the day itself was nothing more than a standard step...

Digitized Real Estate – Outsourcing to the Internet

Remember when a social network was you local high school's PTA meeting? Maybe it was running into a neighbor at the grocery store and...

Referrals, Facebook and the REALTOR trademark

It seems that there was a bit of a kerfuffle recently about a Facebook page that (gasp!) used the word REALTOR® in the URL. Evidently...