by REM Editorial Team | Mar 28, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Publisher's Page
Somewhere in the country right now there is a salesperson sitting at their desk or at their kitchen table with their head in their hands and in deep despair. This person could be a woman or a man, old or young, rich or poor (but probably poor) and probably very much...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 7, 2012 | Featured, Guest Columns
By Bill Hubbard Selling real estate 40 years ago was a very different job than it is today. Brokerages were brokerages. They brought something to the table for their Realtors. Companies generally took 50 per cent of the gross commissions earned but they handled all...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 1, 2012 | Publisher's Page
I am so old now that I wonder if at the end of the day they will take my old bones and set them up in the museum beside the other dinosaurs. I have seen so many cycles in the real estate business that I wonder if anything in this business can even make me blink...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 22, 2012 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns
By Ronn James Recently I entered into a debate in which a frustrated Realtor was ranting about the lack of professionalism within our industry, about buyer agents failing to provide feedback on their showings of sellers’ homes. The agent felt that the sellers were...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 2, 2012 | Publisher's Page
We are coming up on St. Valentine’s Day. It’s the day that grocery stores have extra flowers shipped in to accommodate shoppers who rush to the store to pick up a last minute bouquet or box of chocolates to express their feigned thoughtfulness. It is also a time when...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 12, 2012 | Publisher's Page
It is not unusual to hear about people buying a house with no money down – it does happen here and there. Sometimes it’s done by securing a second loan in addition to the first mortgage. It may be a vendor taking back the additional money between the first mortgage...
