AGBeat Columnist: Lisa Sanderson
Lisa sells residential real estate in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern PA, and authors The Poconos Real Estate Blog. Being a strong believer in community participation, she currently serves as President of a 1700 home Property Owners' Association and Secretary of the Board of the local REALTOR Association for 2009. Her most challenging and fulfilling role, though, is that of Mom to two teenage girls, and her main hope for them is that they learn to appreciate the abundant joys of a life lived with a positive attitude. You can connect with Lisa on Twitter, Facebook and/or LinkedIn.
You Say Kumbaya Like It’s A Bad Thing
Pay It Forward Is Alive & Well The RE.net knows the rules of social media and appreciates the idea that what we give online comes back to us greatly multiplied. The info we share on Twitter and Facebook, the help we give to our contacts with Diggs and Stumbles, the knowledge we share through our blogs, all of these things ...
Being Nice To ‘Nobody’
Paying More Attention I find myself replaying conversations in my mind a lot. Usually they are the small, seemingly insignificant conversations that come back to me at odd times, as I’m driving or before I fall asleep at night. When my mind is free to think, it often revisits bits of interaction which at first appear ordinary. Recently I’ve come ...
Can Patriotism Be Exclusionary?
You Learn Something Every Day Being involved in my homeowners’ association has been a great learning experience. And what a well-rounded education it’s been indeed! There are so many aspects to association governance ranging from financial and legal to construction, facilities management, personnel and more. For example, as a volunteer, as a Board member and most recently as President, I ...
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Thoughts on HOA Leadership
A Rose By Any Other Name… …perhaps does not smell quite as sweet. Usually when I hear discussion about these associations, they are called homeowners associations (HOAs) or property owners associations (POAs). The community I live in calls itself a POA. This is fine, and is probably legally necessarily as it’s been so named since its ‘birth’. But shouldn’t we ...
Hear Ye Hear Ye, Yarnsmiths Take Heed
Tales of Mirth, Tales of Glee Spin Your Tales, Oh Bards of RE There we were, mesmerized by the sound of the stream, gazing through the trees at nature’s wonder on a beautiful winter morn. The full length screened porch overlooked this idyllic setting, and I believe the would-be vacation homeowners were imagining many future summers there. It was one ...
Leading During Tough Times
Your Crew Needs You These days, being a leader is harder than ever. Every organization, large and small, is feeling the effects of the economy on people’s pockets, emotions and health. Undoubtedly, if you are in any sort of leadership position, you witness it. Whether you are the head of your household, an officer in your REALTOR Association, a company ...
Blog Fodder Gold For Your Hyper-Local Site
You Know You Want It You want to write articles on your blog that captivate your readers and elicit responses from them. You want content that positions you as the housing expert in your area. You want your site to create some local buzz. You want SEO and you want traffic and you want to create conversations with your neighbors. ...
Puzzled By LinkedIn
Sign up and fuggedaboutit Not sure if it was at REBarCamp or at Inman Connect a couple of weeks ago…but the discussion was about social networks and how they each have their own personality and should be used differently. Someone suggested that LinkedIn is an easy one to participate in because you don’t have to participate. You put your resume-type ...
New Conversations About Your MLS
The possibilities are endless The MLS Track at Inman Real Estate Connect left my mind spinning with the possibilities that are ahead for our industry and, more specifically, the MLS. I ended up with a few opinions and a bunch of questions to take back to my local Board for discussion. This is where this conversation rightly belongs, after all…with ...
Resolved to Get Involved? Start Here
Congratulations on your decision to volunteer! No matter how big or small a commitment you make, you’ve chosen to join many of your real estate peers in becoming a community leader, advocate and expert. You will reap many benefits not the least of which include building a greater sense of purpose and well-being, forging new friendships and increasing your community ...
Do More, Learn More, Be More
An Astounding ROI There have been a lot of articles here on AG about constructive ways to deal with the economy and real estate slowdown, most of it involving finding ways of keeping a positive outlook and building our business foundations through learning and tweaking our systems. I submit that getting involved in our communities is one of the best ...
Professionalism Booster #87
Photo Credit ‘Tis the Season of Love I don’t think we spend enough time talking about our relationships with other agents. And I don’t mean here, online, where we love EVERYBODY. I am talking about our competitors, those agents who work the same neighborhoods that we do, who are competing for the attention of the same buyers and sellers we ...
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