Stop Renting your Real Estate Business!

Real Estate agents and Mortgage Lenders help people every single day with either financing or selling homes to people that they will own.  Ownership is something that we all take pride in.  Owning homes, cars, iPad's, and all kinds of other things.  We like to "own" things...agreed?  It makes us feel good...a sense of [...]

2022-06-08T09:26:57-04:00October 5th, 2012|0 Comments

Home Buyers – Why Move to Arlington, Virginia

For over 10 years I lived in a fantastic place in America...Phoenix, AZ.  It was summer all the time, a lot of outdoor activities, and if you are an avid golfer...HEAVEN!  About 3.5 months ago I moved to the Washington DC area and am adjusting nicely.  If you read my blogs you know that [...]

2022-06-08T09:26:59-04:00September 25th, 2012|0 Comments

Real Estate Marketing – Why You Should Target Renters

Do you feel it?  You know...the Real Estate market making a BIG SHIFT.  The pendulum has surely swung the other way.  For the last 3-5 years ever since the economic meltdown home values have dropped and many people lost their homes due to a foreclosure or short sale forcing them to rent.  The market [...]

2022-06-08T09:27:22-04:00September 17th, 2012|0 Comments

Why You Should Switch Title Companies Right Now

To begin...the Title Company you currently use in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area ( if not already Stewart Title) is probably not a bad Title Company.  I'm sure that they provide decent to good service and have knowledge of their title and settlement services. More than likely they are very good at taking your [...]

2022-06-08T09:27:24-04:00August 28th, 2012|0 Comments

How to Write an Effective Real Estate Blog Post

I think that we can all agree that technology has come to the forefront on basically anything that we now do.  This applies especially to the Real Estate space.  Realtors are told that they are to have websites.  They are told that they are to have effective content that answers questions to their potential [...]

2022-06-08T09:27:26-04:00August 22nd, 2012|0 Comments

How to Keep and Convert Online Real Estate Leads

As the Director of Sales/Marketing at Stewart Title and Escrow in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area I meet with Realtors everyday.  We talk about all kinds of things: Contact Management Systems, iPad training, data lists to target market, video, blogging, AND how to convert Online Real Estate Leads.  To me online leads are the [...]

2022-06-08T09:27:27-04:00August 20th, 2012|0 Comments

Real Estate Marketing Olympics… Would you Medal?

In the last 60 days since moving to the Washington DC/Northern Virginia area I have met with over 50 Realtors and Lenders.  Each person is in a different phase of their Real Estate career and have different levels of knowledge.  Each Realtor and Lender also have different needs as it applies to their Real [...]

2022-06-08T09:27:31-04:00July 30th, 2012|0 Comments