by Kim Rempel | Sep 22, 2016 | Advice for Agents
Facebook can be a fantastic marketing tool for your business – if you’re using it properly. Many real estate agents, however, misuse it and hurt their business. Many make the same mistake as my friend, for example, who launched his own business on Facebook....
by MarkWeisleder | Sep 19, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Legal Issues
Just when you think you have seen everything in a real estate deal, something new occurs. The important thing is to learn something from whatever happens. 1. They only left us one key. The front door has two locks! This happens more often than you think. Calling the...
by Natalka Falcomer | Sep 13, 2016 | Advice for Agents
Any leasing agent knows that tenants love their tenant inducements. The most common form is the landlord promising to build and pay for the costs of “fitting out” (renovating, providing fixtures) the tenant’s unit. After all, who wouldn’t want to shift the headache of...
by Richard Robbins | Sep 8, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured
How do you build trust, rapport and actually get people to like you in the first few minutes of a conversation? First, your intentions must be pure so your actions are sincere. People can sense a disingenuous act within seconds. Don’t be this person. Second, do...
by George E. Zanette | Sep 7, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured
Recently I interviewed a number of managers and salespeople, asking them for the most common reasons why real estate salespeople fail. In my last column, I listed the top 10 reasons. Now in a series of columns I’m going to take a closer look at each of the 10...
by Martin Rumack | Aug 31, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured, Legal Issues
I am often asked by sellers to advise how much (or how little) information they must provide to potential buyers. It’s never an easy answer. Although the time-honoured saying “buyer beware”’ still holds, in law the seller has a legal obligation to disclose what...
