by Cliff Baird | Mar 4, 2015 | Advice for Agents
How do you get good people, who want to be successful and who have been more than adequately trained on how to be successful, to put their knowledge into practice just long enough to become successful? The real estate industry is grid-locked with training courses and...
by Dan Steward | Mar 2, 2015 | Advice for Agents
Water expands when it freezes. This is actually a good thing! If it were not the case, ice would sink instead of float and ultimately lakes and rivers in cold climates would freeze solid from the bottom up. There could be no aquatic life. For plumbing systems, water...
by Gayle Mavor | Feb 25, 2015 | Advice for Agents, Featured
A recent report by RedFin Research Centre says that across all real estate price tiers, homes captured with DSLR photography were more likely to sell within six months than homes with point-and-shoot photos. In the $400,000 to $500,000 price range, 64 per cent of...
by Jerry Bresser | Feb 23, 2015 | Advice for Agents
Here’s three quick tips for listing presentations: Always ask for the listing, no matter what How many listings have you lost just because you didn’t ask? Okay, the listing interview isn’t going your way. The sellers have too many questions, too many objections....
by Chris Chopik | Feb 20, 2015 | Advice for Agents
Real estate professionals understand insurance risks related to fire, such as knob and tube wiring and insulbrick siding. In the coming years our industry will be dealing with flood and sewage backup risk and insurability as a course of business. You don’t have...
by Don Procter | Feb 20, 2015 | Advice for Agents, Featured
While banks and mortgage lenders reluctantly cut lending rates after the Bank of Canada dropped its interest rate, buyers of real estate have much more to consider than the lending rates when they choose a mortgage. Lenders that allow frequent lump sum payments,...
