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Recipe for short sale success – quick tips for Realtors

A successful short sale closing is like a recipe for mole poblano. Are you familiar with mole poblano? It’s a chocolate-tinged sauce made famous in the colonial days...

Presentation secrets for professional leaders and speakers

Beyond "Death by PowerPoint" Have you ever sat politely through a presentation that made you want to choke out the inventor of clip art, or...

Real estate’s top voices on finding a quality real estate mentor – report

Agents are not being mentored effectively "Agents today, and for the last three decades, are simply not being mentored worth a tinker’s damn," wrote investment...

Getting started in short sales – how to cherry pick your listings

Inaccurate calculations can cost big bucks Everyone already knows that one of my favorite topics is short sales. In fact, my son says that I...

The biggest failure of the real estate industry – communication

Failure to communicate Nobel Prize winner for Literature, George Bernard Shaw said, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken...

Improve an investor’s business to improve your own business

Investing on the rise Real estate investors are dominating many real estate markets across the country that have high volumes of REO properties. A lot...

Short sale negotiations – Kardashian style

Does Drama Have a Place in Short Sale Negotiations? I’m a little bit embarrassed to admit it, but one of those Kardashian reality television shows...

How to create a legitimate executive summary for your business

Bringing business planning to brokerages Business schools across the United States and around the world have been teaching the merits of a sound corporate business...