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Home Sellers Should Know The 94% Trend

March 30, 2010

Home sellers need to have a solid feel for what home buyers are doing when they search for a home to buy. The use of the internet by home buyers continues to increase and the National Association of REALTORS® Annual Survey of Home Buyers showed that 94% of home buyers used the internet in their [...]

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Open Houses Help Sell Homes

March 19, 2010

When I discuss the techniques used in selling a home with new home sellers, most are curious about my opinion on open houses. For those readers who missed my past article on real estate open houses, I addressed conversation rates and REALTOR® motivation for conducting them. But what about the relevance of holding an open [...]

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How To Make An Offer On An Overpriced Home

February 15, 2010

It seems as if overpriced homes are everywhere these days. They are beginning to dominate the Q&A sections of many real estate web sites. One of the great things about having a real estate blog is that we get to see much of what our customers are thinking and doing in their efforts to buy [...]

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Tallahassee Real Estate Improvement

December 30, 2009

I first learned of a Japanese term “Kaizen” from Coach Jim Young at West Point, where I was a lowly offensive lineman for the Army Football Team. Coach Young explained Kaizen to us as the concept of continuous improvement. Jim Young taught that the way to move from a losing program to a winning program [...]

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1 Million Visits To The Tallahassee Real Estate Blog

December 1, 2009

Every so often, I like to delve into my web site analytics package to see how many people have been visiting our Real Estate Blog and from where these people are coming. While the top origination points are not so surprising, I am always amazed that many of our visitors come from all over the [...]

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Video Shows How To Search The Tallahassee MLS

August 10, 2009

When I first got into the real estate business in Tallahassee, the multiple listing system (Tallahassee MLS) was not computerized. We all submitted our listings and every three weeks or so, a new “MLS Book” was published. Sorting through this colossal printed assembly was not fun. We would sit with buyers and show them grainy [...]

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Home Sales Continue Slide In Tallahassee MLS

April 7, 2009

Every month we update our Tallahassee MLS report which shows the supply and demand dynamics of the entire area tracked by the Tallahassee Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service (MLS). The areas include Leon County, Jefferson County, Wakulla County, Gadsden County, Franklin County and a few other random sales from around the State of Florida. [...]

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Can You Quickly Sell A Home?

April 29, 2008

I have received numerous contacts over the past few weeks from real estate blog readers, customers, and friends asking me different forms of the same question…. What does it take to sell a home in today’s market? How much time does it take? Can you really quickly sell a home in Tallahassee?These are questions that [...]

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