by Jeff Stern | Jul 8, 2019 | Columnists
One of the weirdest sights to me is a group of people sitting at a table together in a restaurant, each of them on their phones. Instead of interacting with each other in person, they’re interacting with people online. It used to be only real estate agents and other...
by Jeff Stern | Jun 12, 2019 | Advice for Agents, Featured
I recently received a message from an agent who was faced with a tricky situation. Tell me how you would handle this situation if you were in her shoes. She’d received a call on a property. “I’d like to see the house you have listed,” said the woman on the phone. The...
by Jeff Stern | May 6, 2019 | Columnists, Featured
There is a wide array of professional services home buyers and sellers use during the buying and selling processes. Lenders and lawyers are the ones people are most familiar with. There are also home inspectors, insurance brokers and home stagers, to name a few....
by Jeff Stern | Apr 8, 2019 | Columnists, Featured
I’ve been in business pretty much since I was a child. My first business as a disc jockey began when I was 15-years-old as Jeff Stern Music Services, then I bought and ran Odyssey Light and Sound for many years after. First, I had to take a taxi to gigs, then once I...
by Jeff Stern | Mar 7, 2019 | Columnists, Featured
They say there’s no such thing as a dumb question. Most of the time, I agree. Except, perhaps, when one is in a moving vehicle and asks the driver, “Are we there yet?” As real estate agents, we get a lot of questions about things. Some of them can seem strange....