So in the travels of 27 plus years in real estate, most of the training I received early on, was the craftwork of the deal. Call it old school if you will, but given the comparison to today’s “newer” agents, and the use of technology, there really isn’t any craftwork. And […]
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Navigating Off-Market Deals
I tend to get this call a good number of times every week, from folks I know super well, and from those that I’ve never met, but got my name somehow, someway. Everyone seems to be after an off-market deal, but are they really deals or not? “Good question” I say. What is an off-market […]
Is Negotiation Dead?
ne·go·ti·a·tion nəˌɡōSHēˈāSH(ə)n/ Discussion aimed at reaching an agreement…………….it’s all but dead here in Portland, Oregon in 2016! Why do I say that? OK, I’ll hop on my high horse and explain. It’s really just my perspective on how us realtors are dealing with each other in transactions. Somewhere along this incredible run up, through arguably […]
Real Estate 101 is not the Avatar in the Cloud
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I’m reading my real estate agent/broker magazine today, and the entire issue is devoted to new technologies, cloud stuff, virtual broker stuff, stuff in the cloud stuff. But not a single part in the same article, is the connection we are supposed to have, […]
New Broker at CORE
I was down south a few weeks back, taking care of some family issues, and also finding some time to visit a few places in California wine country. At one particular vinyard, I met the chappy in this photo. We struck up a chord, found out we both like movies, real estate, and wine. So […]