September 2007

There are 2 blog entries for September 2007.

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

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 3:16pm. 91 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.

ForeclosureOne 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. 95 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!)

Buy-nowI 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…


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