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Financial Reality… Many real estate professionals feel caught in a financial vise right now.  We’ve all been there.  Most are there right now. Client Expectations… Your selling clients DEMAND great exposure in order for their listing to stand out in an already-overcrowded market, while you struggle to pay for that exposure with a declining income [...]

Imagine there’s no office It’s easy if you try No empty desks around us We’re all roaming with Wi-Fi Imagine all the Realtors Working a better way Imagine there’s no desk fees It isn’t hard to do Nothing to waste our money And no print ads too Imagine all the Realtors Leveraging technology You may [...]

My favorite book is “Atlas Shrugged.” I don’t know anyone who’s read it and not been impacted by it in some way. In fact, in 2009 the Wall Street Journal featured a story that talked about how eerily prescient this book had been more than 50 years earlier in predicting so many things going on [...]

NOTE | This post was written by Marc Davison of 1000Watt Consulting and published in August of 2005. It was re-published with permission. PREFACE | This post includes many great suggestions and common-sense, “Business 101″ financial recommendations that are still as relevant in April of 2010 as it did when it was originally published nearly [...]

Sometime in September of 2009, before I ever saw or heard of the #RTB hashtag on Twitter, I had a lengthy Twitter exchange with Stefan Swanepoel (@Swanepoel). We were talking about the need for an increase in the level of professionalism in real estate. Here’s my best recollection of the conclusion of our dialogue: Swanepoel: “I [...]

Jay Thompson (@phxREguy) wrote yet another sensational blog post recently. This one is entitled “Does the Real Estate Brokerage Matter to the Home Buyer/Seller?” As of this moment, there are 211 – 211! – comments following that post. Amazing! If you haven’t already read Jay’s post and all the comments that follow, please do so. [...]

The issue of the “value of the brokerage/the brand” continues to rage across Social Media. I wrote a post called “The Brand Illusion.” Jay Thompson (@phxREguy) wrote a blog post called “Does the Real Estate Brokerage Matter to the Home Buyer/Seller?” Marc Davison (@1000WattMarc) wrote a blog post called “Can a Real Estate Brokerage Matter?” [...]

Over at toddwaller.com, I started a “Where’s Waller?” section to simply have a little fun and tinker with my personal blog.  This “Where’s Waller?” has been cross posted there and here, ’cause I thought you all might be curious! 

If you’re representing a buyer and you are doing so as a buyer’s agent, it is my opinion that you are violating the National Association of Realtor’s Code of Ethics if you are not aggressively advising your clients to have the home they end up buying tested for radon. See excerpt of the applicable Articles [...]