AGBeat Columnist: Russell Shaw
Russell has been an Associate Broker with John Hall & Associates since 1978 and ranks in the top 1% of all agents in the U.S. Most recently The Wall Street Journal recognized the Top 200 Agents in America, awarding Russell # 25 for number of units sold. Russell has been featured in many books such as, "The Billion Dollar Agent" by Steve Kantor and "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent" by Gary Keller and has often been a featured speaker for national conventions and routinely speaks at various state and local association conventions. Visit him also at nohasslelisting.com and number1homeagent.com.
Real estate team building – free video seminar
“I want a big team.” Over the years I’ve had agents tell me they “wanted a big team”. Or they “didn’t want a big team”. I’ve never seen anyone who didn’t want “a big team” have a need for a team at all. And (other than an oversized self image) I’ve never seen any good reason to “want a big ...
NAR raises dues, will membership numbers really drop?
NAR raises dues… yawn Oh sure. Lots of agents will complain and bemoan having to pay more. But I doubt NAR will lose any members (due to the dues increase) they weren’t going to lose anyway. There is a very interesting relationship between how many members NAR has and the average number of sales per member. Although some members are ...
What the future of real estate brokerage will look like
The AG Flash Poll prompts this response. Will the future have more “independent brokerages”? Yes! But that isn’t the whole story. I believe what has happened in the Greater Phoenix Area over the past 30 years is exactly what will eventually happen in every major real estate market in the next 15 – 20 years. Every last one of them ...
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If You’re in the Short Sale Business Most of the Banks Are About to Take a Giant Dump on You and Your Clients
It is no secret that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are tightening the reins on delinquent borrowers. What is looks like to me is Fannie is now going WAY out of their way to “find errors” and “mistakes” so they can can shove the foreclosure back on the originating bank and not have the loss belong to them. FNMA has ...
“what if you could really help – really make a life or death difference to a fellow REALTOR who seriously needs a hand up, not a hand out?”
I just received the following email from my good friend, Dr. Fred Grosse: Dear Friends Greetings to you all from springtime in New Zealand. We are writing to you with a different kind of message today, one that we very much hope you will support and which we also hope you will never need to use. We would like to ...
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 them long to find this one. It didn’t take them long at all to find the videos that my friends and short sale competitors, Kevin and Fred had at their site, Short Sale Power Hour. ...
Wachovia Will No Longer Postpone A Foreclosure
In an effort to stop sellers facing foreclosure from gaming their system, Wachovia has completely stopped allowing any postponement of a foreclosure or Trustee’s Sale. I have long felt that Wachovia was not simply a good lender to deal with for a short sale – truth be told – they were the very best. I’m being told that this new ...
No BS real estate – upcoming panel in Scottsdale
I don’t think Jeff Brown’s (BawldGuy) head is much larger than Jay Thompson’s head or my head. But you wouldn’t know it if you looked here. The three of us will be on a panel together on Tuesday, August 24th in Scottsdale. Each of the three of us has a different approach to our business and yet I can’t remember ...
Maybe I’ll stay in real estate? Or maybe I won’t?
Matt Stigliano – a relatively new agent is out of the business. Temporarily. Most agents in the business are “relatively new” to me – I’ve been in the house selling business since 1978. Several people, in letting Matt know how much they cared about him, commented that – they too, had thought about leaving the business, or had also left ...
The shadow inventory equals shadow gibberish?
One of the more remarkable methods used (even by “Intelligence Agencies”) to establish if something is true or not is to is to label it true if it came from a “reliable source”. Who said it? If he or she is considered reliable or an authority the data is considered true or factual. The other – perhaps even more silly ...
Thank you, NAR! Or would you prefer to be known as a used house salesman?
What NAR is or isn’t doing A lot of blog posts have been written about what the National Association of Realtors is doing wrong or what they “ought to be doing” with regard to this or that. I have written some of those posts myself. I think it is important if one is going to find and point out things ...
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