by REM Editorial Team | Jan 31, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Featured
By Richard Robbins Sales professionals, regardless of production, are busy people with a lot of balls in the air including finding new business, serving existing clients and running a business (in many cases with very little administrative support.) We all get the...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 31, 2014 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
Back in my day, people sometimes held back their very best things for special use. Ordinary days meant ordinary things in the house and ordinary routines without using the good stuff that had been put away. It was all saved for when company came or special occasions...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 30, 2014 | Advice for Agents
Situation: You enter a listing prospect’s home and they immediately insist on knowing how much you charge, how much you will list the home for or how you will advertise the home. If you answer their questions right away, they are in control and you are being...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 29, 2014 | Advice for Agents
You call yourself a tree hugger, perhaps a green activist or super saver of the world, but how well do you really understand eco-issues concerning the planet? Often it’s not until we compare our knowledge to someone else that we realize how little or how much we...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 27, 2014 | Advice for Agents
February – when every young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of, “How can I escape this dreary winter?” Then I opened an email from my real estate board. There, buried between the President’s Message – yawn – and the 2013 Sales and Summary Stats was an important update...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 21, 2014 | Advice for Agents
By Bob Aaron A ruling of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in December makes it clear that a seller is responsible for paying commission to the real estate agent if a full price offer is presented, whether or not the offer is accepted. Back in September 2008,...