Tri-Cities, Washington, real estate and homes – thoughts and conversation.
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 30th, 2008
I went to the dentist today, and I wrote out my name and address on the reminder postcard they’ll send me in 6 months to tell me my next appointment is coming up. When I do that for my kids, I always write The awesome and magnificent McGee children on the name line. So, today for [...]
Posted in Week That Was on Jan 27th, 2008
I’m soo tired tonight. I think it’s because I stayed inside all day because it snowed all day. All day long. And the several inches of snow are on top of about a 1/2 inch of ice, so I didn’t drive anywhere. The hypnotic effect of snow falling has done its number on me.
BUT, earlier [...]
Posted in Real Estate Industry, Sellers on Jan 21st, 2008
It’s always driven me crazy when people write ‘motivated’ in an ad. Of COURSE they’re motivated, they wouldn’t be selling their house if they weren’t. Turns out putting motivated in the ad sells the home faster, but for less money, on average.
I hesitate to use ‘beautiful’ in an ad, because it feels like an overused word. However, [...]
Posted in Week That Was on Jan 20th, 2008
Need more money? Don’t we all? Here are some ideas to put more moula in your bank account. I think the first one is rather obvious, but the others are pretty good.
When I worked for GTEL Billing (which was a subsidiary of GTE), in the early 90’s, my personal fear was someone’s complaint not getting followed [...]
Posted in Real Estate Career on Jan 19th, 2008
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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