Watch Personal Branding, David Armano, Critical Mass in Technology
Into social networking? This is a very interesting take on branding yourself. Nobody cares about you? Think again, your thoughts and ideas do mattter.
We are looking for folks who want to be area experts in the real estate business. Become your own brand, we can show you how. We believe that you do the Lions share of the work and that you deserve the Lions share of the profits.
Do you remember the day you got your real estate license and joined your brokerage office? In all likelihood, it was a happy day for you and it was the first step on the path for you to become independent, helping others pursue their dreams while simultaneously pursuing your own.
What’s interesting is the process that people use to choose the brokerage that they associate themselves with.
I know people use different criteria, such as the freedom to run your own business, training, leads, desk space, support, compensation, advertising, brand recognition and I have even heard people say they chose a certain brand because of the color of the blazers that their agents wear on commercials.
What ever the reason, I’ll bet that your needs and wants regarding your brokerage have changed with time. Experience in the real estate business tends to change the priority of the criteria mentioned above.
“Pong is no longer a high tech game, cell phones that only make phone calls are passé and commission splits with the brokerage are history!” (more…)
REO stands for real estate owned within the real estate/banking industry.
Before the banks take full ownership, the homes and home owners go through what is a lengthy process called foreclosure. The number of homes entering the foreclosure process fell sharply in July compared to a year ago, but homes continued to flow out the other end of the foreclosure pipeline in the form of sales to new owners.
Lenders repossessed 92,858 homes in July, up 9 percent from June and 6 percent from a year ago figures show. It was the eighth month in a row where bank repossessions were at a higher level than the same time a year ago.
The monthly tally of homes becoming “real estate owned” (REO) has been higher only once since May of this year. But the number of homes beginning the foreclosure process when lenders served their owners with default notices was essentially flat from June to July, at 97,123. That’s a 28 percent decline from the same time a year ago, and a 32 percent reduction from the April 2009 peak. (more…)
Have you considered a purchase instead of renting for four+ years?
This is not a new trend but many parents are not taking advantage of the current market. Rents for apartments and homes have gone up while at the same time real estate prices have come down.
If your budget permits, I would like to suggest a way to provide a place for your child to live while in school and position yourself in a market that is more attractive for buyers at this time. (more…)
