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Short sales are not without challenges, but knowing the answers to the most common obstacles and questions can aide in a less stressful transaction.
Coaching
Minimizing the frustrations that come with a short sale is often seen as a mythical possibility, but with these simple tips, any short sale...
Coaching
Short sale: are there actually situations where an agent would not get paid? There are some complicated situations when it comes to short sales,...
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I’ve been committed. Some of you may remember my quest to become a member of some local and state committees in order to one...
Residential
Just when I am convinced I have seen all the MLS bloopers that could possible occur, the MLS rides forth again with a cornucopia...
Realtors
Yep, that’s a porn ad – provided by our very own Realtor.com – in an apparent ad-hijacking. The above salacious screenshot came from the...
Business Marketing
Usually I have to wait several weeks to accumulate enough fodder from The MLS to fill a blooper blog, but this week was exceptional....
Residential
A goal is reached. If you’ve been around AgentGenius for awhile, you may remember my post “Join the Committme.” After the Google/Scraper debate, I...
Realtors
Baseball and Real Estate I don’t particularly care for baseball, but I appreciate a level playing field. Doubtful due to their exclusive contract with...
Ethics
The MLS The MLS or Multiple Listing Service was set up in the late 1800’s so that brokers could share information with one another...
Ethics
The (NAR) doth protest too much, methinks. Did you see this? (not too many people have, apparently). 10 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won’t...
Economic News
NAR released their May Existing-Home Sales Report on Tuesday. Fortunately chief economist Lawrence Yun has the answer to why the housing market remains weak...
Housing News
What’s the Story? My Social Media career began when Jim Duncan and Liz Luby spoke in front of an NAR sub-committee about blogging. In...
Realtors
Arizona MLS Takes Stand on “Scraping” and “Indexing” For Immediate Release: RECENT NAR INTERPRETATION CREATES COMPETITVE DISADVANTAGE FOR REALTORS® PHOENIX, AZ – JUNE 10,...
Realtors
What I Discovered A few short years ago when I was doing my original research for shaftingrealtors.com (when I first became enraged with Realtor.com)...
Ethics
New Restrictions? After the Mid-Year meetings in Washington , a change was made to Standard of Practice 15-2, and a new standard of practice...
Business Marketing
Just as a gentle reminder to all of what the actual purpose of the National Association of Realtors is supposed to be: "The core...
Business Marketing
Recently both Century 21 and The Realty Alliance have partnered with REALTOR.com® to provide their agents with Showcase Listing Enhancements.
Opinion Editorials
Perception is Not Reality Last week NAR held their Mid-Year meetings in Washington, as they have for many, many , years. And during those...
Residential
Digital Disasters and Massive Failure of MLS Photography.
Opinion Editorials
Image courtesy of It’s time to get involved. Background: Read Did Google Scrape My Website? You Be The Judge. Rules Threaten Realtors & IDX...
Opinion Editorials
They’re only words. Words. Words are powerful stuff. Words can hurt, elate, destroy, and effect change. They can be designed to do any of...
Opinion Editorials
[Update] “NAR has supported this ruling! That is the scary thing. My local board threw it on NAR for intrepretation and they indeed said...
Business Marketing
It Started Last Year In February 2008, I had the honor of chairing the Short Sale Working Group appointed by President Dick Gaylord. A...
Opinion Editorials
Journalism's definition as it is seemingly known today is fluid - it's reporting news, current events and in our world, our respective real estate...
Opinion Editorials
A lot of them are better at searching for homes that I am, and that's just fine with me - I don't want to...
Residential
The National Association of REALTORS® announced the hiring of Todd Carpenter as it’s new Social Media Manager today. Todd is very dear friend mine,...
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