There is one thing that Real Estate agents value above all others...TIME! Time is very valuable because as a busy Real Estate agent you are showing homes, going to inspections, dealing with appraisals, managing your leads and getting back to people, and closing your escrows on time at Stewart Title and Escrow in Fairfax, [...]
Having been in the Title Insurance business for the past 7 years doing Sales and Marketing I have run into pretty much every kind of objective possible as to why a Realtor or Mortgage Lender has a relationship with a Title Company or why they have to use Title Company X or Y. Many [...]
Having lived in Phoenix, AZ for 10.5yrs I witnessed the entire Real Estate cycle. I saw prices go from $140K on average then a 47% home value increase in a 12 month period...then a HUGE market crash in 2008 and home values fall all the way down to $112K on average. This left thousands [...]
When I was a little kid my siblings and I used to play "Hide and Seek" all the time. Back in the early 80's that was the kind of things we did for fun opposed to staring at TV screens playing video games. The object was to hide somewhere where we thought no one [...]
"To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on." This is the definition of Progress. Everything that we do in life is to make progress...to move forward towards a goal and achieve it. This is certainly no different in the Real Estate business. [...]
There are so many people in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area that have their Real Estate licenses. These agents want the consumer that is looking to buy or sell a home to "pick them!" Remember in elementary school when you would play touch football or kickball and you wanted to not be the [...]
I was home over the weekend and I came across a TV marathon of a show that I truly loved...the old school "Twilight Zone." I was watching several episodes in a row and I came to an episode that made me think about how it relates to the Real Estate community today and in [...]
Every single Real Estate agent that has ever existed was a brand new agent at one point. They paid their money for Real Estate school and passed their tests and BAM they were Realtors! Ok, that's great but now what? What do I do now to get clients? Ever hear the phrase "Jack of [...]
Since moving to the Washington DC/Northern Virginia area and working as the Director of Sales/Marketing for Stewart Title and Escrow I have been working like mad getting in front of agents, lenders, commercial agents doing what I can do to help them grow their business. I'm also doing something else that is very [...]
Now that I am settling into the Washington DC/Virginia area I needed to do one very important thing…I needed to buy a new car! When I left Phoenix, Arizona I sold my car to a friend of mine. (I think he got a steal!) It was easier/cheaper to do that than to transport my [...]
