Qualifying Buyers From the Buyer Side Perspective
Qualifying a buyer is a term that is used frequently by agents and brokers in the real estate business. The most obvious connotation is in relation to their ability to purchase. However, that isn't the only context or situation in which you might use the term.
Qualifying Buyers from a Seller Side Perspective
When working as a listing agent, you are showing your clients' property to prospective buyers. To better serve your sellers, you want to be sure that the prospects you're bringing to the listing are able financially to purchase and at least have some basic level of interest.
Quality Assurance Process for the Real Estate Brokerage
Many industries, including service industries, have implemented structured Quality Assurance Processes in their businesses. These can be quite elaborate and expensive. This attests to their importance. Learn here about a QIP process for the real estate brokerage.
Quality as a Method of Evaluating a Potential Real Estate Investment Property
To starting investors I always offer the same advice: In this area err on the side of caution. A project that you can get done is infinitely better than one that has you burned out by the time you’re halfway through it. Find something in your comfort range that offers some decent numbers, get it done, then move on to a more challenging (and hopefully more profitable) project the next time around.
Quantitative - Running the Numbers Using Cap Rate
The real estate investor can anaylyze and evaluate a property for investment potential using a variety of tools. These could include cap rate, rate of return, cash flow or others.
Questions and Your Real Estate Blog - The Ins and Outs
Over at The Real Estate Tomato, Teresa Boardman gives us some food for thought about her blogging and its value to her business. One item she mentions is the
Questions to Ask - New Client Essentials
Whether asked conversationally or provided on paper there is a bundle of essential questions to ask when you encounter a new client. His responses will help you better understand his goals in purchasing commercial real estate, and will therefore make the site selection process much easier.
Quit Trying to Transfer Files & Just Work on Your Desktop PC with the iPad
After wasting my money on several iPad apps, trying to really use my iPad as a work computer in the field, I finally found one that took care of a lot of my
Quitclaim Deed-What Does a Quitclaim Deed Convey?
The Quitclaim deed is the least protective for the buyer. Types of deeds. Real estate deed types.
Quoted Text with Curate.us
Quoted Text with Curate.us
RE/MAX & Rehava Confusing - 1% Agree
Yesterday I posted about the action filed by RE/MAX to stop the use of the name
REALTOR Magazine-Daily News-Critics Say Flood Maps Aren't Right
REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Critics Say Flood Maps Aren't Right. This article is short and sweet. New flood maps could be in error in your area. I'm going
REALTORS® are Service Providers.....But
At the recent California Association of REALTORS® Conference, the discussion turned to the reference by the Zillow web site to real estate professionals
REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-2011 Mortgage Trends: Jumbo Loans, Cash Buys
REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-2011 Mortgage Trends: Jumbo Loans, Cash Buys. My area is vacation and resort property, so the jumbo loans part of this article
REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Google to Drop Real Estate Listings
REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Google to Drop Real Estate Listings. I remember when many in this business were very concerned about Google's entry into the
REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Late Video Rental Fees? No Mortgage!
REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Late Video Rental Fees? No Mortgage!. With all of the mortgage woes right now, and people struggling with credit issues, getting
REALTOR® Report First-Time Home Buyers Have Declined In Recent Months : Economists' Outlook
REALTOR® Report First-Time Home Buyers Have Declined In Recent Months : Economists' Outlook
REIT Recommendations Heavy on Mortgages
In an article titled
REITS Looking Good to Investors
In an article titled
REITs Advantages - Advantages of Real Estate Investment Trusts or REITs
REITs, or real estate investment trusts, allow the normal investor to own the commercial real estate. Whether its office space, a skyscraper, or apartments, an investor who purchases shares in a REIT will share ownership, as well as operational profits as dividends. Good earnings, predictability of income and expense, and low correlation with other asset classes, make REITs a good investment for many.
REITs Real Estate Investment Trusts for Real Estate Investing
When the seminars, books and videos are all over and done, many would-be real estate investors decide that it isn't for them. Learn how to do it easily with REITs.
REITs or Bonds - Deciding Between REITs and Bonds for Investment
REITs and bonds are not truly competitive as investments, but there are some common reasons why one might own one or both. Learn the differences and compare them.
REITs or Utility Stocks - Real Estate Investment Trusts or Utility Stocks?
Should you move into REITs or stay with Utilities stocks? It's a dividend and growth decision, balanced with changing conditions.
REMAX Real Estate - A Look at the REMAX Real Estate Franchise
Though most all real estate agents are independent contractors, the REMAX franchise was founded to advance the concept to the next level. Based on a 100% commission to the agent, the REMAX franchise and its brokers make their money via fees charged to the agents for office space and services.
REMAX Sues Agent for Cybersquatting
It's incumbent on any company to protect their trademark, or they could lose the ability to do so in the future. So, unlike the previous REMAX suit I wrote
RESPA - The Origin and a Brief History of RESPA
RESPA, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, was first enacted by Congress in 1974. Learn more about RESPA and Regulation X.
RESPA - The Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act
RESPA, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, was enacted by Congress in 1974 in order to regulate disclosure of costs in real estate transactions.
RESPA Coverage - What Transaction Types are Not Regulated by RESPA?
RESPA, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, covers the vast majority of residential loans. Learn the loan types not covered by RESPA and why.
RESPA Coverage - What Transaction Types are Regulated by RESPA?
RESPA regulates any federally related mortgage loan with a lien on residential property. There's more to learn here about the coverage of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.
RESPA Violations - When a Commission Just Isn't Enough
The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) sets forth the rules relating to the settlement of real estate transactions by brokers, lenders and title
RESPA – How Can a Real Estate Broker Violate RESPA?
RESPA, or the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, regulates certain marketing and business relationships of real estate settlement service providers. Learn what can get you into trouble.
RESPA – Who Falls Under RESPA Regulation?
RESPA, or the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, regulates certain marketing and business relationships of real estate brokers, title companies, home warranty companies and more. Learn who is and who isn’t regulated.
RESPA, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and AfBA's
RESPA, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, regulates referrals and other service sharing aspects of the settlement transaction. AfBA's, or Affiliated Business Arrangements are one of these regulated practices.
RPR - Realtor Property Resource - Do We Need Realtor Property Resource?
RPR, Realtor Property Resource®, is a new site being built by NAR as a resource for Realtor members to have aggregated property information from multiple sources, including the MLS and public records. More than 140 million records will end up on this site. Do we need it?
RPX - Radar Logic Home Price Index
Link to the current data from the Radar Logic RPX Home Price Index
RPX Radar Logic Daily Home Price Index - Profile of the Radar Logic RPX Home Price Index
Radar Logic, Inc. produces a daily home price index that presents daily reports of home price trends at 1 day, 7 day and 28 day intervals. It is to be used as a traded security to allow those involved in the housing industry to hedge their exposure through purchase or short sale of this index.
RSS - Really Simple Syndication & How We'll Use It
The tool we'll use the most to re-use content across sites will be RSS, Really Simple Syndication. Learn how it works before we put it to use.
RSS News Reader for Your Real Estate Business Home Page
We're building a suite of office applications online with mostly Google tools, such as Gmail and Google Calendar. On our igoogle business summary home page, we want a feed reader to keep up with news.
RSS to Email - RSS with Email for Real Estate
Using RSS to email and RSS with email, a real estate agent can improve email delivery and open rates. Newsletters and bloq posts can be delivered to prospect email.
RTM Email Task List
Copy this list and paste into your own Gmail canned response email. Edit the items to suit your transactions, and then just put a date on each line for a transaction and email to your private RTM email address to get all of the tasks entered at once and synced back to Google Calendar.
RTM Remember the Milk & Google Calendar for Real Estate Task Management
RTM, Remember the Milk is a great task management online system for transactions or any other task. Using lists to group by transaction, and tying it into Google's Calendar, you are able to upload a group of transaction tasks to RTM all at once, and have them end up in Google Calendar to track and remind you.
Race to the Tax Credit Closing Deadline
That great burst of home sales with contracts before the end of April certainly helped the housing markets. But, there are possibly going to be as many as
Read My Lips - It's Not the Number!
Beginning with a Trulia consumer question, moving through the Consumer Reports survey results, and ending up at their abbreviated 3% vs. 6% chart, one would
Reader Stories: How You Funded a Challenging Real Estate Investment Deal
Real estate investment is back in favor again, especially with rock-bottom interest rates and bargain prices all around. One problem that comes along with all of these benefits is a tough loan environment. Lenders aren't throwing money around. Tell us how you recently funded a deal in a way that might help another investor.
Reader Submissions: Tell Us About Your Mobile Tools for Real Estate
Our readers are interested in success stories in the use of mobile devices in working as a real estate professional. Tell us how you've made your practice more mobile, how it's helped you to be more productive, and if it helps you in better serving your clients.
Reader Submissions: Whether an Agent or a Seller/Buyer - Tell Us About Your Short Sale Experience
There are plenty of horror stories about short sales. But, there are also a lot of them being done. Let us know your experience with short sales, including recommendations to make them successful that worked for you.
Reading A LOT Between the NAR & DOJ Settlement Lines
I must have missed something in the NAR settlement with the DOJ...like I'm now operating an illegal site by displaying IDX. At least that's what I think this
Reading on Practice and Trends in the Real Estate Industry
Change is constant. Keep up with trends in the real estate industry, as well as criticisms and consumer activism with regards to our business models.
Real Estate Absorption Rate Display Embed Code
In this screen we see how to make a couple of selections to finalize the code we need for the display of absorption rates on our site. Then we just copy out the code.
Real Estate Agency Law - A Real Estate Agent's Fiduciary Duties
Real estate agency law says that a real estate agent who takes on the capacity of
Real Estate Agency Law - Client Remedies for Breach of Fiduciary Duties
In real estate agency law, if a real estate agent breaches their fiduciary duties to a client, the client has available the remedies of rescission of the contract, forfeiture of commissions of the agent and/or damages.
Real Estate Agency Law - How is Agency Created
Real Estate agency law says that agency is a representational status that defines the duties of the agent and the rights of the client. An agent has fiduciary duties to the client evolved in common and statutory law. There are two ways to create agency, express and implied.
Real Estate Agent Advice - Is Real Estate For You?
Get a clear picture of the benefits and the challenges of a career as a real estate agent with this real estate agent advice. Find out what new agents find to be the toughest about the business and the best.
Real Estate Agent Commissions & Brokerage Business Models
With real estate marketing changing, and pressures from Internet and discount brokers, is the old real estate agent commission and brokerage business model in danger of extinction?
Real Estate Agent Commissions - Real Estate Agent Compensation
This update on how real estate agents are paid addresses the real estate agent commission model, as well as other and newer ways in which real estate professionals are being compensated.
Real Estate Agent Compensation - Commissions & Splits in Real Estate Agent Compensation
Learn the ins and outs of real estate agent compensation. Fees, commissions, agent and broker splits, referral fees, 100% commission agents and more are explained here.
Real Estate Agent Investors - Know the Risks Before Becoming a Real Estate Agent Investor
Don't end up in front of a jury trying to explain how you came to purchase a property at an advantageous price when the seller called you to list it. As a licensed real estate agent investor, your risk is very high in this type of transaction. Complete disclosure and the advice for the seller to use an attorney and appraiser of their choice is important.
Real Estate Agent License Exam Tips and Resources
Take your state's real estate agent license exam with confidence by using our tips and resources to prepare. Requirements, courses, exam tips and more here.
Real Estate Agent Preparation for a Listing Presentation
Before you get in front of that listing prospect, be sure you have your ducks in a row. You're presenting your experience, expertise, marketing and transactions services.
Real Estate Agent Professional Development and Ethics
Professional development encompasses more than just continuing education courses. Continual improvement of your local area knowledge, as well as being current on real estate industry news and trends are very important.
Real Estate Agent for Real Estate Investing Team - Choosing a Real Estate Agent for Your Investing Team
Successful investors build a team around them to grow their business. Real estate investors need at least one real estate professional who can meet the specific needs of the active real estate investor.
Real Estate Agents (sales, broker, how much) - City-Data Forum
Real Estate Agents (sales, broker, how much) - City-Data Forum
Real Estate Agents Must Keep Up with Marketing and Customer Trends
Real estate marketing is in probably the most active change environment in its history. Don't be spending money on marketing methods that the customer to which the customers are no longer responding.
Real Estate Agents Web Sites - What Works for Business
New real estate agents that see what a web site can do for their business are eager to get started on one. Read first about search engine optimization, domain name selection, best content for a real estate web site and more here. Then execute drip email and watch the prospect list grow.
Real Estate Alternative Business Models and Pricing
There are more new and innovative real estate brokerage business models than ever before in history. Learn what some of them are, as well as looking at what others are doing.
Real Estate Appraisal - Artificial Declines and Real Estate Appraisal
Are you guilty of contributing to a process the lenders and appraisers call
Real Estate Appraisal Changes - Get Ready & Knowlegeable
Effective April 1, 2009, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both have some new rules taking effect for appraisers. Fannie Mae's 1004MC and Freddie Mac's Form 71 both
Real Estate Assistants - What are the Duties of Licensed and Unlicensed Real Estate Assistants?
Real estate assistants are a logical phase in the development of a real estate business. The busy agent or broker can funnel duties to the assistant that are taking time away from interaction with clients. One must be careful to know their state's laws as to what functions are allowed based on whether you have a licensed or an unlicensed real estate assistant.
Real Estate Associations and Multiple Listing Services
Articles and resources to help local real estate associations to better serve their membership in promoting and managing their businesses.
Real Estate Basics - How the System Works
Get the history and structure of the traditional real estate business. Learn about fees, commissions and referrals. Find information on associations, trends and current events.
Real Estate Blog - What are the Benefits of a Real Estate Blog?
Real Estate blogs are growing in popularity at an extremely fast rate. A real estate blog can be a boon to your business if you learn to do it properly and have the dedication to post frequently.
Real Estate Blog Content - Free Original Relevant Content You Only Have to Copy and Paste
Too many real estate professionals are afraid to begin blogging because they fear there will not be enough time or ideas to keep generating relevant real estate blog content. Not true. It's easy.
Real Estate Blog Costs - What Will it Take to Get a Real Estate Blog
A free real estate blog may look like a good financial choice, but free blogs typically do not have the features required for an effective real estate agent business blog. Blogging is too important to short change your presence for cost reasons.
Real Estate Blog FAQ - Answering Questions for Real Estate Blog Content
One of the reasons many real estate professionals do not blog is the fear that they cannot create enough content on a regular basis. An FAQ category can take care of the problem.
Real Estate Blog for Brokerage Management - Brokerage Communication With a Real Estate Blog
A real estate blog doesn't just have to be about a web presence and marketing. A private blog can become a powerful communication and management tool.
Real Estate Blog or Newspaper? - The Debate
What content should you put on your real estate blog? Should you stick to real estate topics, or should you put effort into community information,
Real Estate Blogging - Analytics or Content
I spend a little time each day in checking out questions posted on LinkedIn about real estate and marketing. This morning, one question concerned what the
Real Estate Blogging - Be the Expert with a Real Estate Hotsheet Report
Real estate blogging is rapidly gaining respect as the way to communicate with clients and prospects, position yourself as a local real estate expert and garner better search engine positioning. Here's a blog post strategy that works for all three.
Real Estate Blogging - Don't Expect Overnight Results From Your Real Estate Blog
There is survey evidence that bloggers who have stuck with it for two or more years are getting 2/3 of their leads from their blogs.
Real Estate Blogging - Going Viral With Your Real Estate Blog
People like to share, and you want to make it easy for them to share your blog posts with others. Learn how here.
Real Estate Blogging - How Does Using Site Analytics Indicate Blog Lead Generation?
Real estate blogging is growing exponentially, with a small percentage finding it successful for lead generation, and many more failing miserably. How does the analysis of site statistics play in lead generation?
Real Estate Blogging - If It Quacks Like a Website - Don't Say Blog
There are many real estate bloggers who have chosen themes for their WordPress blogs that look more like standard websites than blogs. The fact is that there is still a large percentage of the population that is not into blogging.
Real Estate Blogging - New versus Returning Visitors
We want traffic to our real estate blog site. Who should make up the bulk of that traffic, new or returning visitors? Obviously in growth mode, new visitors would dominate, particularly if we're doing PPC marketing.
Real Estate Blogging - Other Things You Do & No Time for Real Estate Blogging
I love hearing my local real estate competitors make the statement that they don't have time to blog. Every day they hold that opinion, I gain a tiny future bit of Internet marketing share.
Real Estate Blogging - RSS Subscribers and Leads to Conversion from Real Estate Blogs
How does the number of RSS subscribers to your blog convert to leads and from leads to actual clients? Learn what one survey says here.
Real Estate Blogging - Should You Display Listings in Your Real Estate Blog?
We're not talking about an IDX or other MLS search function, but displaying your listings. Surveys show that the more successful bloggers do not. See why here.
Real Estate Blogging - Social Networking and Leads From Your Real Estate Blog
A great many bloggers tie their blog posts into social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Does this improve lead generation and conversion to commissions?
Real Estate Blogging - The Fruit of the Vine for Fast Real Estate Blogging
There is little doubt that blogging works for Internet real estate marketing. And, WordPress is the best platform for it. It's just a big step. See how the Real Estate Tomato can help.
Real Estate Blogging - Who Cares Where Your Real Estate Blog is Hosted? - You Should
How does self-hosting versus a blog network translate into more business for those real estate blogging? Learn here what one survey found out about hosting of real estate blogs.
Real Estate Blogging - WordPress Plugin for Super Mapping for a Real Estate Blog
Real estate blogging is not just blogging. Your entire web presence can be a WordPress based blog, and the results can bring you a lot of business. Here's a way to easily map listings, local sights and more.
Real Estate Blogging - Writing About Your Listings in Your Real Estate Blog
Writing about specific properties in your real estate blog will likely cost you leads and money over time. Read the survey results that prove this here.
Real Estate Blogging 101 in 4 Days
Real Estate Blogging - Starting Your Real Estate Blog
Real Estate Blogging Interest Picking Up
I've experienced more calls and emails in the last couple of weeks from real estate professionals with static websites who want to blog, particularly on
Real Estate Blogging With The Real Estate Tomato
A profile of the products and services offered by The Real Estate Tomato for real estate blogging. Custom blogs and intensive training are offered.
Real Estate Blogging Works - Finally Some Data to Prove It!
CREST, or the Center for Real Estate & Social Technologies, has published their second survey of the results of real estate blogging. Their major conclusion is
Real Estate Blogs & Blogging - A Real Estate Marketing Necessity
While you may not want to blog, may not think you should or can, you simply must have some type of real estate blog presence if you want a fully-rounded real estate marketing presence on the Internet. There's more than one way to get it done...learn here.
Real Estate Blogs Are the Future - Get There or Lose the Race
This really isn't about the format of a blog, or how it works with Search Engine Optimization. This is about your future client, the site visitor who you need to satisfy.
Real Estate Blogs and Blogging - Supercharge Your Business with a Real Estate Blog
Make your real estate blog a search engine powerhouse, business networking tool and a community resource. Learn to use guest authors for real estate blogging to get more posts with less work. A real estate blog can bring you prospects, clients and business.
Real Estate Brand - By Any Other Name Would It Smell As Sweet?
Does the quote about a rose in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet apply in the world of real estate branding and franchising? In a post at REALonomics.net, there's
Real Estate Broker & Agent Email Procedures - You Can't Ignore Real Estate Email Procedures
Are real estate email procedures important? Federal regulations state that, in federal court actions, all pertinent email records can be required in pre-trial discovery. If you don't know what your agents are doing with respect to email retention, the liability will ultimately be with you, the responsible broker. Develop a written procedure that spells out how your agents are to permanently file all emails in a format that is universally recoverable years into the future.
Real Estate Broker Reciprocity - License Reciprocity for Brokers and Agents
Information on how to obtain a real estate license in another state without testing and with minimal courses. This is called license reciprocity, or broker reciprocity.
Real Estate Broker Web Site - Agent Retention with a Good Real Estate Broker Web Site
You can lure new agents with a page off your company web site and some shared leads, but long-term retention requires a better plan. You can use your real estate broker web site as a major benefit for your agents.
Real Estate Brokerage Business Staffing & Operations Procedures
Detailed information and resources are presented here for the management of a real estate brokerage. The facility and physical layout, staffing, files management, information sharing, training and more will be analyzed.
Real Estate Brokerage Office Management - Principles of Real Estate Brokerage Office Management
Learn the basics of real estate brokerage office management. An introduction to insurance, risk management, marketing, purchasing, sales and lead management, office and staff considerations.
Real Estate Brokerages & Blogging Sites for Local Exposure
The trend of franchises to create huge national real estate search sites could be the wrong approach. Consider the franchise providing local sites on blogging platforms for their franchisees and their agents.
Real Estate Brokerages and Agents - Technology for Real Estate Agent Success
Besides websites for lead generation, what can a brokerage or franchise provide to real estate agents that will help them to succeed? This is a little marketing and a lot of productivity.
Real Estate Brokers Can't Shine Lawyers' Shoes
Well, it's that time of year again, when The Harris Poll puts out their list of professions and their levels of prestige with the consumer. Here's the report
Real Estate Business - TopPicks
An index of TopPicks for the Real Estate Business guide site.
Real Estate Business Blogs
Blogs that are interesting and topical about the real estate business.
Real Estate Business Card Design - Building an Effective Real Estate Business Card
Don't forget the purpose of your real estate business card when doing the design for a custom card. Though the world is going digital, there is still a use for business cards, and one of your most important design considerations should be how well it will convert to digital with a business card scanner. Don't get too graphic, but if you do use images, be sure to make the text clear and prominent.
Real Estate Business Cards - What Are Considerations for my Real Estate Business Cards?
Real estate business cards are the most basic of our marketing tools. With the rapid advancement of technology, there are more things to consider now than look, feel and color. Learn what today's business card needs to make it more useful for its intended purpose.
Real Estate Business Guide
Start and operate a real estate business with all the information you'll need here. We'll take you from getting your license as a real estate agent, through building your business to growing into a brokerage with multiple agents. Learn about property rights, real estate agency, real estate and listing marketing, real estate websites and blogs, and more.
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Real Estate Business: What is RSS?
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Real Estate Buyer Agent Duty - Know What's Happening as a Real Estate Buyer Agent
When working with buyers, knowing the market is critical. Market changes are reflected in the
Real Estate Buyer Drip Email #1
The first email I send via an automated real estate drip email system is one that points the prospect to one of the most valuable parts of my website ... valuable to them.
Real Estate Buyers - What To Do With Building Costs Up and Home Prices Down
This is a slam-dunk. When it's costing more to build a home, while existing home prices are falling, buy an existing home, not a new one!
Real Estate Buyers Aren't Liars - Buyers Agent Should Know That They're Clueless
Most have said it, and all have thought it;
Real Estate Buyers Tell Us What to Do
The best way to determine what our buyer clients want and how to market to them is to ask them. The annual NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers does just that. Learn what they said.
Real Estate Calendar & Tasking with ConnectedHQ
Real Estate Calendar & Tasking with ConnectedHQ
Real Estate Career Poll
Real Estate Clicks on a Community Real Estate WordPress Blog Site
I keep a pretty close watch on my site traffic, and just did a ratio calculation for real estate page clicks in relation to other types of content on my community oriented site. See the results.
Real Estate Company Cuts Print Ads by 84%
A short article at Realtor.org discusses a Colorado real estate company making drastic cuts in print advertising. From $3.2 million to $500,000 is a big step,
Real Estate Consulting - ACRE Designation for Real Estate Consulting
As downward pressures on commissions increase, real estate consulting for the average consumer is beginning to blossom. The ACRE™ Designation, or Accredited Consultant in Real Estate, was introduced at the NAR convention in November 2006. Find out how it works and if it's what you need in your business. Get paid for what you know and do, whether the deal closes or not.
Real Estate Consulting - Real Estate Consulting as a Business Model
Real estate consulting combines some of the practices of fee for service with an hourly fee delivery for services. The consumer, buyer or seller, can select services individually at flat rates, services in pre-packaged bundles at flat rates, or elect to have their needs met via an hourly rate.
Real Estate Contact & Prospect Management - Planning for Real Estate Contact & Prospect Management
One of the most important business tools of the real estate professional is their real estate contact & prospect management system. Proper planning will help to select the best system and set it up to help you manage your prospects, market them efficiently and take more of them to a commission.
Real Estate Contact & Prospect Management - The Importance of Real Estate Prospect Management
Real estate contact and prospect management is at the heart of building a successful real estate business. Keeping track of your many professional contacts is critical to smooth transactions, while prospect management keeps you in the minds of your prospects until and after a transaction.
Real Estate Contact Management - Changing Real Estate Contact Management Systems
Don't get caught in the trap of wanting or needing to change real estate contact management systems, only to find out that you cannot export all the information for transfer to the new system. Also do frequent text file exports to your hard drive just in case your online contact management service disappears.
Real Estate Contact Management - Plan for Real Estate Contact Management
First, know the difference between contacts and prospects in real estate contact management systems. A contact is virtually anyone you know or do business with, such as appraisers, surveyors, etc. A prospect is someone you're hoping to represent in a real estate transaction.
Real Estate Contact Management - Sourcing Records for Real Estate Contact Management
Knowing where contacts and prospects come from is quite important for recording in your real estate contact management system. In the future, you can make much more intelligent marketing budget decisions if you know how you first gained your clients. Move marketing time and money to the prospect sources that work for you.
Real Estate Contact Management With ConnectedHQ
ConnectedHQ is a contact and prospect management solution. What it lacks in robust features, it makes up for in one-stop business management functionality.
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Real Estate Content Marketing
Whether you have thought about it before or not, real estate professionals with websites and blogs are
Real Estate Contract Law - Amendment or Adendum
Real estate agents need to be sure that they know the difference between an amendment and an addendum to a real estate contract or purchase agreement. In real estate contract law, using the wrong document could lead to more than just a red face. An amendment changes an already-executed agreement, while an addendum is an additional document included in the original agreement.
Real Estate Domain Names - Choosing a Good Real Estate Domain Name
Many wonder if they should use their own Name as their real estate web site domain name. Though it can be one of the names that point to your site, it shouldn't be the primary. It doesn't have to include
Real Estate Down Market Practices - Brokerage Operation During Real Estate Down Markets
What can we do as an individual real estate agent, or as a brokerage, to reduce our costs and survive through down real estate markets? They aren't always national, with regional down markets on occasion.
Real Estate Drip Email - Drip Email Must Change to Adapt to the New Consumer
There are hundreds of thousands of real estate drip emails going out today. Unfortunately, most of the senders don't realize that the vast majority hit the Trash bin automatically. You need to adapt.
Real Estate Drip Email - Is Real Estate Drip Email Dead or Dying?
Real estate drip email is resulting in millions of emails a day, so the quantity certainly isn't dying. But, is it's ability to be an effective medium for working with real estate prospects and clients dying?
Real Estate Drip Email Campaign - Email #2, 5 Days After List Entry
The second email in my real estate drip email campaign introduces a custom search and automated email alert option for the prospect.
Real Estate Drip Email Campaign - Email #3, 8 Days After List Entry
The third email in my real estate drip email campaign takes the prospect via links to my IDX search page and shows them how to ask for more in-depth information on each listing.
Real Estate Drip Email Campaign - Email #4, 12 Days After List Entry
The final automated email in my real estate drip email campaign thanks the prospect and tells them that they're going to receive quarterly market statistics reports ongoing.
Real Estate Drip Email Examples
Real Estate Drip Email Examples
Real Estate Easements - How Real Estate Easements are Created
Easements are the right of someone to utilize the real estate owned by another. Real estate easements can be created by written agreement of the parties, a deed conveying a property, condemnation, court order, prescription or by necessity.
Real Estate Email Archiving - The Federal Government Requires Real Estate Email Archiving
With so many of our activities as real estate agents and brokers falling under rules from the EPA, HUD and other federal agencies, it's always possible that you could end up in court concerning a transaction. It's the law that you surrender all pertinent emails in pre-trial discovery. You can't get away with deleting them either.
Real Estate Email Drip Campaign That Works
A real estate drip email follow-up campaign is effective if it retains the prospect in your email list, they read some or all of the emails, and they deal with you when they're ready to buy or sell real estate.
Real Estate Email Flyers - eFlyers for Real Estate Listings Marketing
Though email is free and easy to do, it doesn't mean you should abuse your fellow practitioners with unsolicited email flyers for listings.
Real Estate Email Management with Two Free Solutions
I'm all about easy and fast, especially with management tasks. You only need two free solutions and a little setup time to fully automate your real estate transaction email management. Store it, file it for retrieval, and print multiple messages for your file.
Real Estate Ethics - A Realtor Most Foul Doesn't Violate Real Estate Ethics
What this real estate agent did with his landlord's toilet was foul, but was it a violation of real estate ethics?
Real Estate Ethics - Action for Sellers in a Classic Breach of Real Estate Ethics
The sellers' complaint in page one of this article is addressed by the expert they contacted with their story. Read what the expert's take is on the situation and his advice to the abused sellers.
Real Estate Ethics - Sister Fronts for Broker's Personal Breach of Real Estate Ethics
It's one thing to get a good deal on a property as a real estate agent or broker when the seller knows all the players and facts in order to make an informed selling decision. It's another to use a family member to conceal self-dealing by an agent.
Real Estate Ethics - Stories Complaints and More About Real Estate Ethics
We all have our horror stories about clients, other agents and brokers, mortgage people and others involved in the real estate business. When some value can be derived from reading real life stories in this area, we'll run them here.
Real Estate Ethics - The New Roof Strategy and Real Estate Ethics
Read about an actual situation a home seller describes to a real estate expert witness to see if they have a valid real estate ethics complaint about a new roof on a home for sale.
Real Estate Ethics - The New Roof Strategy and Real Estate Ethics
Read about an actual situation a home seller describes to a real estate expert witness to see if they have a valid real estate ethics complaint about a new roof on a home for sale.
Real Estate Farming & Web Sites - Don't Send Them Home With Real Estate Farming
A great many real estate agents are very successful due to neighborhood farming with direct mail. The Internet is changing the way we market in many ways, but it can work really well with direct mail farming.
Real Estate Farming - Like Real Farming The Tools Are Changing for Real Estate Farming
If you're still doing all of the same old refrigerator magnets and post card mailers, you're falling behind in the new world of real estate farming.
Real Estate Farming - Real Estate Farming In Today's Web World
Real estate farming of neighborhoods has been around since the beginning. It doesn't go away because it is effective. However, with the Internet changing real estate marketing across the board, how can you change your farming methods to adapt and succeed?
Real Estate Farming - Tilling, Planting & Harvesting Leads
Image via WikipediaMost successful real estate professionals have been doing some kind of neighborhood farming for buyer and seller prospects. It's been around
Real Estate Financial Calculator - Spreadsheet Real Estate Financial Calculator
A spreadsheet real estate financial calculator solution. Set up to quickly calculate gross potential income, gross operating income, gross rent multiplier, net operating income, cash flow before taxes, cash flow after taxes, break-even ratio and return on equity.
Real Estate Floor Plans & the iPad
I did a little quick tip writeup here about Intaglio Sketchpad for drawing real estate floor plans. It's a vector drawing application for the iPad, and can
Real Estate Franchises and Franchising
Whether you're just starting a brokerage, or you're considering franchising an existing one, there are many to choose from with differing business and revenue sharing models. Learn about them here.
Real Estate Here and There
What's happening in real estate locally, nationally and internationally? Get the news here in future, with snippets of news from all over. We've written
Real Estate Here and There
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Real Estate Here and There
Commercial lending requirements are following residential into tighter territory. Though the money is available, commercial loans are harder to get. Does
Real Estate Here and There
CNNMoney.com gives some cautious advice about REITs. Buy for the long haul and for portfolio diversification. Commercial real estate in for a more turbulent
Real Estate Here and There
Pat Kitano at Transparent RE provides some insight into the different perceptions of the value of social network and blogging content. Real estate content is
Real Estate Humor - It's All In Your Perspective
We've all heard the glass half empty or half full analogy. And it certainly is a tough time for real estate professionals since the mortgage crisis hit.
Real Estate In Posts & Tweets
Real Estate News
Real Estate In The News
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Real Estate Intranet - Using an Intranet to Manage Your Real Estate Brokerage
From marketing through transactions and listing management to office functions, a real estate intranet can make you more efficient in managing your real estate brokerage.
Real Estate Intranets - An Online Management Solution
Using one of the various online intranet applications, you can create a cloud brokerage, sharing documents, calendars, tasks and more. They're designed for use by any business, so you will need to do some customization for real estate, but they are effective.
Real Estate Intranets - What Is Most Important In Choosing a Real Estate Intranet?
Real estate brokerages are now going more mobile every day, and it's not all about saving money on office space. Learn what your most important consideration should be when investigating online intranets for real estate.
Real Estate Investing
Real estate investing involves residential and commercial rental properties, high rises, real estate investment trusts or REITs, office complexes and more.
Real Estate Investing - Appraisals & Absorption Rates for the Real Estate Investor
Real estate investors do a lot of number crunching, and that's a good thing. Learn why you should add absorption rate to your real estate investing toolbox.
Real Estate Investing - Real Estate Investors Take Advantage of Converging Opportunities
The housing price and mortgage collapse beginning in 2007 is yielding opportunities for real estate investors in the period 2010 into 2011. Learn about the factors contributing to this opportunity and how investors are taking advantage.
Real Estate Investing - What Do I Need to Learn Before Investing in Real Estate?
Real estate investing has provided great returns and even riches for many. However, a great deal of preparatory study should be done before purchasing your first property. Learn the basics here.
Real Estate Investing In Any Market - Real Estate Investors Profiting in All Markets
Long term successful real estate investors are in the markets through the cycles that come with real estate, whether local or national. Learning how to adapt strategies to the current market is why they're successful.
Real Estate Investing Lease-Purchase - Lease to Own for Real Estate Investors
Using the lease-to-own strategy, a real estate investor can create monthly positive cash flow while locking up a home for future purchase. Learn how it works here.
Real Estate Investing Team - Choosing a Mortgage Broker for Your Real Estate Investment Team
Highly successful real estate investors, especially those doing rehabs and flips to retail consumers, need a good real estate mortgage broker on their team.
Real Estate Investing Team Accountant - Choosing an Accountant for Your Real Estate Investment Team
Whether you've ever needed one in the past or not, a good accountant should be in your future if you intend to be successful in real estate investing. Find out why and what to look for in a good accounting professional for the real estate investor.
Real Estate Investing Team Attorney - Choosing an Attorney for Your Real Estate Investing Team
Anyone wanting to do more than just dabble in real estate investing should carefully select a real estate experienced attorney to fill out their real estate investing team.
Real Estate Investing Team Hard Money Lender - Hard Money & Private Money Real Estate Investment
Funding for creative real estate investment deals, especially flipping and wholesaling, frequently requires short term higher cost loans to get deals closed. Learn here about hard money, private money, and transactional lenders.
Real Estate Investing Team Title Company - Choosing a Title Company for Your Real Estate Investment Team
Active real estate investors end up sitting at a lot of closing tables. Choosing a good title company for your real estate investing team can make the experience more pleasant and profitable.
Real Estate Investing Team's Insurance Agent - Selection of Insurance Agent for Real Estate Investment Team
The insurance agent you select for your real estate investing team can help in more ways than just insuring houses.
Real Estate Investing Through Bird Dogging - Bird Dogging for Real Estate Investors
Bird Dogging in real estate investing refers to bringing investment deals to real estate investors who pay a fee to the bird dog for finding profitable deals. It requires on cash investment by the bird dogger.
Real Estate Investing Tool to Follow Home Prices
Whether you're a real estate investor, agent, broker, mortgage person or just curious, there's an interesting and helpful tool out there to analyze home price
Real Estate Investing With Double Close Flips - Wholesaling with Double Closings
While double closings have become much rarer after the mortgage problems beginning in 2007, you can still have a successful real estate investing wholesale flipping business using double closings with transactional funding.
Real Estate Investing With Lease Options & Sandwich Leases
Using lease option strategies, a real estate investor can control a property and rent it out for positive cash flow. Using sandwich leases, the investor can get the cash flow and a profit on the sale at the end of the lease period.
Real Estate Investing Without Cash - Fast Income from Real Estate Investing Without Cash
There are ways in which to make money in real estate investing without cash out of pocket. If you want to get started in real estate investing, these are strategies that work.
Real Estate Investing with Assignments - Assign Contracts to Real Estate Investors
When a real estate investor is working to match buyers and sellers, they can use an assignment contract to lock up the purchase, then assign that contract to their buyer to get their fee.
Real Estate Investing-Part-time or Full-time Real Estate Investing?
Should you begin your real estate investing part-time or just jump right in? Get the Information here to help you to make that decision.
Real Estate Investment - Development Restrictions & Home Prices
There is a definite relationship between development restrictions and home prices. Learn the factors that influence both here, as they will influence your real estate investment.
Real Estate Investment Calculations - Your Success & Failure Stories
Real estate investing is part art, but a lot of science in the use of return on investment and valuation calculations. There are a number of very valuable calculations used by real estate investors. Tell us what works for you.
Real Estate Investment Clubs - Finding a Real Estate Investment Club
Real estate investment clubs have grown steadily in number and in membership. Use these lists and resources to find the right one near you.
Real Estate Investment Clubs - Joining a Real Estate Investment Club
Real estate investment clubs are a popular way for new investors to learn about the business, and for experienced investors to share helpful information and resources. Learn the steps to join one.
Real Estate Investment Clubs - Should I Join a Real Estate Investment Club?
The decision of whether to join a real estate investment club or not is an individual one. Join or not? Get some help here.
Real Estate Investment Clubs - What to Expect from a Real Estate Investment Club
Real estate investment clubs have launched many a successful real estate investor. What to expect when you join a real estate investment club.
Real Estate Investor Buyer List - Building a Buyer List for Real Estate Investing
Successful real estate investors have a pipeline of resources that provides leads for locating deals. One component of their pipeline is a buyer list. Learn here how to build one that will provide you with buyers for deals.
Real Estate Investor Rental Property Calculations
I received a request today for a link to calculations to determine the value of a rental property. I haven't posted about these calculations in a while, so
Real Estate Investor Seller List - Building a Real Estate Investor Seller List
Successful real estate investors build a seller list with motivated sellers who they can then match with buyers from their buyer list to make deals happen. Learn techniques here for building a powerful seller list.
Real Estate Jobs at Countrywide? - Could Be
Foreclosures are rising dramatically, as we're all reading daily. But a viewpoint on the whole issue which I hadn't seen before is presented in this blog about
Real Estate Landing Page Content - Keeping Site Visitors Engaged
Just having the right content on a real estate website PPC landing page isn't enough. If the site visitor doesn't see what they want with a quick scan, they're leaving ... a BOUNCE.
Real Estate Lead Base Paint Disclosure - Proper Real Estate Lead Base Paint Disclosure Procedures
The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is dead serious about enforcement of the regulations concerning real estate lead base paint disclosure. These regs specifically make the real estate agents in a transaction liable along with the seller(s) if disclosure is not properly handled. Civil and criminal penalties are utilized. Know the forms and rules of delivery.
Real Estate Lead Funnel - Generating Real Estate Leads Locally
The major franchises are busily building giant websites with national real estate searching, thinking that this will be the way to bring value down the line and keep growing.
Real Estate Lead Generation - Gmail Canned Responses & Filters for Real Estate Leads
With Gmail, you can set up Canned Responses to deliver special reports to your site visitors quickly and automatically. Using filters and canned responses will get you leads.
Real Estate Lead Referral Companies - What's Your Take?
A great many companies sell leads to real estate agents. They get many of these leads from websites designed to grab a site visitor and sell their information to one or more real estate agents in an area. Some take a percentage of the commission as their fee. Are these ripoffs?
Real Estate Leads - Free and Plentiful
How are your website traffic statistics? Are you enjoying good visitor numbers and are people moving around on your site or blog? How about your conversions
Real Estate Lease - Requirements of a Valid Real Estate Lease
A real estate lease is a type of contract. For that reason, certain things are required for it to be considered legally valid. These include capacity to contract, legal objectives, offer and acceptance and consideration.
Real Estate Lease Options - Using Real Estate Lease Options
Real estate lease contracts have many elements that constitute the agreement between the landlord and tenant. One of these, if offered, would be a real estate lease option allowing the tenant, or lessee, the privilege or option to renew the lease at the end of the term.
Real Estate Leverage - Increasing ROI with Real Estate Leverage
Carefully selected and applied, financing with lower cash up front can increase your ROI (return on investment) cash on cash with leverage. In short, even after the P&I payment is factored in, you can dramatically increase the percentage of ROI in the right situations.
Real Estate Leverage - Top Risk Reduction Strategies for Real Estate Leverage
Real estate leverage for investors can be a very useful and profitable tool. However, certain risks can be reduced with the proper research and planning. Using these strategies can significantly reduce the risks of real estate leverage.
Real Estate Leverage - Top Risks of Real Estate Leverage
Leverage, or the use of other people's money to control real estate, is an effective tool for real estate investors if used properly. Using only 10% down payment can produce a very attractive Return on Investment if other factors are properly balanced.
Real Estate Liability & Lawsuits - Lessen Your Exposure to Real Estate Liability & Lawsuits
Over time, real estate agents and brokers are being held to ever-higher standards of practice. Can you recognize the types of clients that seem to make the best plaintiffs in suits against real estate professionals? You may still choose to work with a client, but it's wise to know when to be extra careful. Your agent or broker real estate liability and lawsuit exposure can be controlled.
Real Estate Liability - Document Management and Real Estate Liability
Real estate liability for the brokerage is something that should be carefully investigated and actions taken to reduce it. Document management is one facet of real estate liability that isn't expensive to do right, but it's very important.
Real Estate License Basics - Help With Real Estate License for Agents and Brokers
Do you get a real estate license as an agent or a broker license? Find out requirements and differences with respect to exams, responsibility for each and business opportunity.
Real Estate Listing Syndication
Why real estate listing syndication is important, what it is, and how to get it done for your listings.
Real Estate Listing Syndication - Easy Real Estate Listing Syndication
Many real estate agents and brokers have a website, but do not have their listings syndicated to major real estate portals. Their website service may not provide this ability. Learn how to get it done here.
Real Estate Listing Syndication - Necessary and Easy
I've posted a couple of times about real estate listing syndication. It's not a complicated subject. We want to display our listing clients' properties on as
Real Estate Listing Syndication Definition
Too many real estate agents and brokers only tout their own website exposure to their clients. Listing clients should be shown that their listing is syndicated to multiple busy web real estate portals.
Real Estate Listings Not for Social Networks Like Twitter and Facebook
There is considerable disagreement over this, but I do not believe you should be posting your listings on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks as many gurus tell you to do it.
Real Estate MLM - Multi-Level Misinformation
NAR's statistics from buyer and seller surveys consistently indicate that only a very tiny percentage of buyers first saw the home they ultimately purchased in
Real Estate MLS System Software - Why Not to Use Real Estate MLS System for Contact Management
Many MLS system software and online systems offer contact and prospect management as part of their package. There is nothing wrong with them, and it's nice to have the integration with the MLS. However, your business is then dependent on a product over which you have no control. Your board could decide to change systems at any time.
Real Estate Marketing - Life-saving Value in a Sneaky Envelope
It's a kind of weird day for news feeds related to marketing by real estate agents and brokers. It's no wonder that new real estate practitioners are confused
Real Estate Marketing - What You Work...Works
What's your most effective marketing media or method? Is it different for name branding than for listings? Do you swear by postcards and direct mail? Or,
Real Estate Marketing Niches - Choosing a Real Estate Marketing Niche
Many highly successful real estate agents and brokers get that way by concentrating on one real estate marketing niche and serving it well. Learn some of the best niche market opportunities here for real estate. Commercial properties, FSBO's, resort and vacation properties, minorities, first time buyers, singles,luxury homes and condominiums are included.
Real Estate Marketing Tip - Tell Them What IDX Search Is & Why It's Better
Too many real estate brokers assume that visitors to their websites or blogs all understand that they are searching all local listings on the IDX search pages. They don't, so be sure you tell them.
Real Estate Marketing With Video - Using YouTube for Real Estate Marketing
You're missing a huge opportunity for free real estate marketing using video, primarily on YouTube, the biggest player out there. Tips for getting the most out of short easy videos here.