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Harbingers of Spring? Is the Market Changing?

Harbingers of Spring? Is the Market Changing?

Real Estate salespeople are usually optimists. They want to believe that things are getting better, and with the low mortgage rates, buyer demand, and arrival of the normal spring market time, there was some indication that the market is getting better. But I don’t know if it really is. There’s an old joke about the boss who came into his ...

Bill Lublin | 2009/08/26  | 14 Comments Real Estate

There is No “I” in “Team”

There is No “I” in “Team”

But it Seems There is a “Me” The concept of teams in real estate is not a new one, but it is open to lots of interpretation. Some teams are agents working together under a single names. Some teams are comprised of an agent who employs some “buyer agents” under their employment contract with their Broker In Charge. And still ...

Bill Lublin | 2009/04/15  | 13 Comments Ethics

Email: Part of a Complete Marketing Breakfast

Email: Part of a Complete Marketing Breakfast

With the announcement that the United States Postal Service (USPS) may be reducing their delivery days, it appears as though direct mail is getting knocked down another rung in the marketing world. Many of you blog and social network, but have you included email marketing into your arsenal? Cost Advantages Email has significant cost savings over direct mail. When looking ...

Nick Bostic | 2009/01/29  | 11 Comments Tech

Loyalty

Loyalty

Call me an idealist.  I’ll give you a second, make sure you say it loud enough I can hear you… Okay, the economy sucks.  Intel just laid off about one thousand people who work about a mile away from me.  Here’s your first real estate hook: they probably won’t be buying a new house any time soon.  I feel for ...

Nick Bostic | 2009/01/22  | 11 Comments Service

How Stuff Works at NAR

How Stuff Works at NAR

NAR 2008 Day 2 Members Have Issues One of the common threads in blogs written by real estate sales people is a disconnection from the National Association of REALTORS. They feel that NAR is some faceless entity run by anonymous individuals who have some secret agenda that is disconnected from the lives of the working real estate professional. The truth ...

Bill Lublin | 2008/11/18  | 16 Comments Real Estate

Why Are We REALTORS?

Why Are We REALTORS?

A Life of its Own In the Blogiverse, there is a lot of conversation about NAR as if the association had some life of its own. Sometimes the conversation revolves around perceived restrictions created by the Code of Ethics and opinions expressed which range from the Code being ineffective to writers who seem to feel that the code is some ...

Bill Lublin | 2008/10/06  | 1 Comment Ethics