September 2007

SOMETIMES IN REAL ESTATE YOU JUST HAVE TO GO TO WORK!

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 3:16pm. 173 Views, 0 Comments.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” – Thomas Edison

I believe that the current ‘down’ real estate market that we are experiencing offers some wonderful opportunities to us as real estate agents, and although it might take a fair amount of work, the rewards can be great. I tire of the agents who are walking around bad-mouthing the market in general and try to let them know that if they are truly willing to work, (something that a lot of agents just are not used to since they experienced the boom years,) there is great opportunity out there.

One of the areas that I believe will make people who work it a substantial amount of money is the short sale or pre-foreclosure market. I find it interesting that…

WHY AREN'T THEY READY TO BUY NOW?

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 at 2:55pm. 161 Views, 0 Comments.

Boy…don’t you wish that you could push a button and program your prospects to buy now? I sure do because the market here in Naples, Florida  seems stuck in those summer doldrums, even though I was talking with a friend this afternoon in New England and he told me it was 51 degrees there. (One tends to forget that when you live in paradise, it’s summer all the time!)

I have a feeling the more that the press uses the R word (recession), the more the real estate market across the country is going to stay stuck in the quagmire that we have been in for a while…actually it is beginning to seem like forever. Although I can’t worry about what is going on in the rest of the country, I feel for my fellow realtors, because it certainly is a mess! (And here we used to…