The Real Estate Blog by Cari McGee

The latest issue of The Real Estate Book, which is a publication that features local homes for sale, has several pages of agents trumpeting their total sales for the year.  Another agent and I joked that we had “missed the memo” stating that this was the year to advertise this way.  Seriously, it’s like the [...]

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I just got a new iPhone, and I LOVE it!!!  A blackberry technically would have been better, because then I would have had access to the local MLS, which for some unknown reason isn’t navigable on a Mac-based system.
But, who cares?  I can use it like a cell phone, listen to some iTunes while I [...]

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Yeah, I know, I know – I told you a couple months ago that, despite my reputation for being the techiest tech techster REALTOR in Tri-Cities, WA I’m not really THAT amazing.
But yesterday we had a web site class here at the brokerage, and people were trying to figure out what their domain names would [...]

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This poor agent in England…he was showing a house and encountered a nightmare.
The worst thing that ever happened to me while showing a house is hearing the sounds of someone in the shower.  The buyer and I skedaddled before the owner exited the bathroom! 

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It is standard procedure when someone I don’t know contacts me via my web site or a floor call, to google them.  I basically check to see if they have a criminal record or were mentioned in the paper for some nefarious reason.  It’s not fail-safe, by any means.  Another agent did the same thing and nothing negative [...]

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