Not exact matches
Each company
has multiple unlimited use plans (great for business
people who are
on the phone all day, such as
Realtors), as well as roaming agreements that let users roam in major markets.
Not only are
realtors facing new competition from
people like Arora within their own ranks, but also deep - pocketed companies including Power Corp. are moving in
on the for - sale - by - owner (FSBO) space, at long last creating a nationwide alternative to the MLS, which for years
has been a near - monopoly marketplace.
Today we're meeting with their
Realtor as it looks like they already
have a full price offer
on their old house, and
on Thursday I'm meeting with an estate sale
person to see how we can most effectively get their old place cleared.
His story resumes in the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a
realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving, permitting him to revel in the acceptance of «that long, stretching - out time when my dreams
would have mystery like any ordinary
person's; when whatever I do or say, who I marry, how my kids turn out, becomes what the world — if it makes note at all — knows of me, how I'm seen, understood, even how I think of myself before whatever there is that's wild and unassuagable rises and cheerlessly hauls me off to oblivion.»
** Because a few of the comments posted were from
people angry that I
had compared a
realtor's gross earnings to the annual (assumed) after - tax earnings of other professions, I just wanted to clarify: The wages listed above are based
on StatsCan survey of hourly and salary employees and reflect gross pay, not net pay.
When housing prices tank, everybody loses; the banks are exposed to higher risk of mortgage defaults, insurers start
having to pay out more for «gas leaks» claiming over-leveraged homes,
realtors starve because their commissions go down (even as foreclosures put more homes
on the market) and
people faced with financial uncertainty will stay put in their current homes instead of moving elsewhere.
With more and more short sales hitting the market, one of the things that
has become absolutely mind boggling to me is how
people go about choosing a
Realtor to work with
on a short sale transaction.
While many investors,
realtors, and homeowners are familiar with a short sale transaction where the property is sold at a loss by bank with the institution taking a loss
on the underlying note and or asset, most
people don't realize that banks
have been doing something very similar since the beginning of banking.
«Restrictions which prohibit
REALTOR ® membership to a
person who
has his principal place of business in the jurisdiction of another Board of which he is a
REALTOR ® Member, merely because he
has only a branch office in the jurisdiction of the Board to which he applied, is an inequitable limitation
on its membership.»
On REALTOR ® Magazine's Active Rain blog, we found no shortage of
people who
have great things to say about their broker.
REALTOR ® associations
have long known that
people frequently make housing choices based
on proximity to transportation.
A previous chair of the Association Executives Council of CREA and Ontario
Realtors Care Foundation, she was recently recognized by REM as one of the
people who
has had the greatest impact
on the real estate industry in Canada in the last 25 years.
That's been true for Jeff Matlock, a sales associate at Crye - Leike,
REALTORS ®, in Goodlettsville, Tenn. «Most of the time when
people call me from a referral, the
people who
've referred me
have already sold the prospects
on my services, and I don't
have to spend time doing interviews,» he says.
With so many (too many) entering into the practice of becoming consumers» advisors in the real estate business, without the requisite practice; without the requisite background; without the requisite self - confidence; without the requisite detachment from the commission income mentality, it is no wonder that
people such as: the dishwashers; servers; factory workers; truck / cab drivers; teachers; office workers; in general, the young and middle - aged unemployed who can't get a job anywhere else (high school drop - outs) etc. types of the world (none of whom are to be denigrated for their particular positions in the job market... except when they think that they are qualified to become
Realtors after attending a few weeks of classes and memorizing answers to questions about which they
have absolutely no hands -
on experience with which to tie their memorized answers to), will willingly buy into paying someone else to professionally «augment» their individual «realities»
on the internet.
When you get a title that
has 3
peoples names
on it one being the father and a self imposed
Realtor Extaordinaire Marty himself, you need to protect your Buyer's ability to
have their deposit returned in an expedient fashion.
«I'm a huge reality TV fan because it's real
people doing real things, so we
had the camera going for 24 hours a day for six days while I was up there,» says 31 - year - old Parks, a third - generation
Realtor whose mother and grandmother, both
Realtors, helped handle his practice while he was stationed
on the roof.
If I was a smart
person and I got to make decisions
on what to do to create a national campaign to promote
Realtors, I
would call
on the heads of the successful real estate companies and franchisors in the industry today.
People here
have different interests (
realtor / investor and so
on), and some are competing.
The last thing that I wanted folks to think about me as a
person (quite aside from being a
Realtor) was that I was right - off - the - bat trying to tie them up contractually with me for a stipulated period of time within which time period they might change their minds about me and want to go elsewhere, but that they
would nevertheless be bound to me for potential financial compensation for thereafter doing nothing other than talking them into signing «right here
on the line»... the BRA.
If a
Realtor has several of these going
on simultaneously, it is almost too much to expect that one
person can juggle all these and
have each transaction go smoothly,» she says.
On the other hand, there are teams of «traditional»
Realtors ® that suggest to
people that
having a whole team working for them will result in better service and faster sales for more money.
Realtors have been instrumental in assisting the program in locating missing
persons in distress
on three occasions in the past few years.
«That also happens to be the number of
people who rely
on the Surrey Food Bank every month to help them make ends meet... As
Realtors, we
have the privilege of serving our communities and feel strongly that we
have a responsibility to give back.»
This «Due Diligence» includes verifying: - the owner is who the owner says they are - the home
has adequate equity to cover all payouts, which means the mortgage is legal and the registered owners are accurate - the signatory to the listing is the actual
person registered
on title - if the
REALTOR suspects the home is being used for money laundering they legally can't wait til it sells, they must act immediately.
In one
person's e-mail they suggested only client's
on Buyer Agreements and Seller Agreements should
have access to the information for clients through their
REALTOR.
My closing comment was: It is my opinion that the CB and certain officers of same
have a personal agenda and vendetta inspired by «your guess is as good as mine» and because
Realtors are perceived to be over-paid for their services and are portrayed as
having a monopoly
on people's home and hearth, it is easy to brand
Realtors as the bad guys.
• As an example of the results possible, US
Realtor John McKenna hasn't missed a listing for over 4 years — you can view his video testimonial from my website homepage: - http://www.iangrace.com • Cold canvassing — everyone knows the law of averages — if you canvas enough
people, of course you will stumble over some who
have need of your services — what we are saying here is, there is a better way, to achieve a better result • Mr Willard — I
have read Millionaire Real Estate Agent by Gary Keller and
have a copy right here • I attended Keller Williams Mega Camp in Austin as a guest, when Jim Reitzel and his son Jeffrey were
on stage with Gary Keller, talking about selling investment property, another area I cover in detail.
What Lloyd
has identified was how 16 years of commitment to raising the bar
on professionalism (1995 - 2011), by most provincial associations was thrown under the bus by CREA in 2011 when it, for the first time since it's inception, began allowing the use of the
REALTOR trademark by mere posters and limited representation provincially licensed sales
people.
Pedlar says his members
had several concerns, including the possibility that new agents wouldn't get very high ratings; that
people or agents could alter or sabotage the ratings; that CREA's original survey did not conclusively show that
Realtors were in favour of the feature; and if an agent didn't want to participate, it wouldn't look good
on the agent and therefore, forced agents to participate.
I consider myself a
person who
has a lot of patience but, with almost 57 years living
on this planet and 11 as a
Realtor, I think that it's time to stop being polite and speak clearly about something that will affect thousands of
Realtors across Canada.
What
has been forgotten in this entire process — maybe it's for lack of knowledge
on the part of the commissioner and the
people looking at this situation — is that
Realtors are commissioned
people.
«While many
people have asked how there can be three differing valuations
on a property, I find that this feature enhances the reason you need a
REALTOR ®,» says Pappas, who
has been working in real estate for five years.
I received the following information, apparently posted
on your website in early 2012: This is a direct quote: Viewpoint Referral Fee: «Even if you
have used another
realtor in the past and plan to use that
person's services again once you're closer to making a move, we receive a referral fee when we assist you in the early stages.»
Hi John M. Yes, I understand that
people will still
have to pay a
REALTOR «something» for listing a property
on the MLS.
There is a very quick and easy way to change the system that
would protect us as
Realtors from
people who just want to use us as tour - guides
on a Sunday afternoon or who seem to think that we enjoy spending our weekends away from our families.
At this time, we should be informing
people on how to make SEO better, not introducing them to it... so in that regard, I think we still
have a long way to go before all
Realtors are
on the same page.
Some of these
people can be so hostile and angry that if their looks could kill, the hapless
Realtor would fall down lifelessly
on the spot.
A
Realtor I know told me last week she was
on Facebook and an ad popped up telling her that her resolution was wrong and if she wanted to reach more
people, she should give them a call and they
would assist her.
On the decision to make Motto Mortgage available to all, Liniger explained, «
REALTORS ® are the most cooperative group of
people of any industry I
've ever been in.
For many years, the Code
has assured the public that
REALTORS ®
would not deny any
person equal professional services based
on their race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
I am thinking we as
REALTORS (r) might be wiser to suggest hiring a series of experts, instead: electrician, plumber and HVAC
person, along with a roofer specific — instead of or in addition to a home inspector, who often enough,
has restrictions as to liability placed
on his work anyhow.
Realtors are SALES
PEOPLE and make a living based
on having a successful sale.
I created my own website and paid a one time fee to be
on the mls and created a
realtor looking for sale sign in the front yard and my husband and I cleaned it up to spotless and home staged it and showed the house ourselves and leRned a lot about
people and I
had a RE attorney to do the paperwork.
A
person can retain a qualified real estate attorney who can handle all of the «mystical paperwork» that keeps
people from controlling their own destiny at a fraction of the cost that they
would spend
on realtors.
As a
Realtor representing many home owners selling their homes over the last 27 + years, it
has come to my attention numerous times that many
people are unaware of the tax
on selling a home in Massachusetts.
If they were to ask the
people on the front line — the
Realtors — they
would hear a different story.
-LSB-...] often
people have hired a
realtor because their face is
on a sign (here's why that's a dumb idea) or worse, because their neighbor's friend's son is an -LSB-...]
One of the keys to success is
having a
Realtor who is able to work with all these different
people on your behalf to bring everything together.
That's why we
've assembled a group of
Realtors like no other — with the knowledge, experience and clear focus
on waterfront sales,» he says, «While we represent several different real estate companies, we work together to connect
people to waterfront property that will best suit their needs, their dreams and their budgets.»
The US market
has never been controlled by realtor.com Americans have not been told for the last 7 years the key reason to list with a REALTOR was realtor.ca which can now be accessed for FREE Has one of the interviewed people taken a single course on the evolution of the intern
has never been controlled by
realtor.com Americans
have not been told for the last 7 years the key reason to list with a
REALTOR was
realtor.ca which can now be accessed for FREE
Has one of the interviewed people taken a single course on the evolution of the intern
Has one of the interviewed
people taken a single course
on the evolution of the internet.