by Peggy Blair | May 13, 2016 | Featured
Spring has sprung and some real estate salespeople seem to have love on the brain when it comes to their listings – and the resulting listing bloopers. I keep running across properties with “hug decks.” (Forget hot tubs; I’d pay extra for that feature.) Ingrid...
by MarkWeisleder | May 12, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured
When deals don’t close, it is important for real estate agents and brokerages to gather the correct information to understand both the rights of your clients and your own right to collect commission. MarkWeislederMark Weisleder is a senior partner, author and speaker...
by Natalka Falcomer | May 11, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured
If you’re looking for success, you need to do more than just network. You need to know how consumers are changing the industry, how to solve their problems better than the competition and how to avoid legal pitfalls. This sounds like a lot of work, because it is. You...
by Ross Wilson | May 10, 2016 | Advice for Agents, Featured
[quote_box_center]“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.” – Ben Stein[/quote_box_center] Why a career in the real estate business? Was it the siren song of big bucks sung by someone in...
by Bruce Keith | May 9, 2016 | Featured
There is a “honeymoon” period in the real estate sales business that starts the first week of every year. All salespeople are pumped up and ready to go. It’s a new year! There are new mountains to climb – new goals to be accomplished! It feels like a...
by Jean Sorensen | May 6, 2016 | Featured, Profiles
MoneySense, a personal finance magazine, recently ranked Vancouver Island’s Port Alberni as the worst place to live in Canada. The magazine ranked the town last or near-last for liveability out of more than 200 communities. But that hasn’t stopped buyers from moving...