Hi There,
You haven’t heard from me lately because all of a sudden I’m
in a hot market, well… the bottom of the market is hot. The question is will
the heat rising from the bottom bubble to the top? It’s inevitable, isn’t it?
By now, you know I’m an optimist…
And then this:
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| The Ridge at South Mountain is in Foreclosure |
In the interim, the bottom of the market is hot. Properties
priced lower than the market value are selling. People are shopping for deals
and they’re finding some. Transactions have become more difficult as banks lay
on more and sometimes onerous guidelines. A lot of deals are falling apart on
the way to the closing table and some right at the closing table. But I am in
the business of helping people buy and sell real estate and except for keeping
an eye on the weather, there’s not much I can do about all that, so I am here,
taking fresh pictures, enhancing properties on the internet, and doing what I
can do to market the properties I have listed. And toward that end I am playing
with the big boys in the industry, listing aggregate giants, Zillow, Trulia,
Homes.com and to a lesser extent Realtor.com. I have a paid subscription to
Zillow advertising my services and I’m getting calls. As more people begin
their search on the internet, they say 90%, it makes playing with the big boys
worth while.
There are still problems with geocoding in the rural areas.
I have your latitudes and longitudes in the MLS and on file, but sometimes I
sit in the living room on Sunday night with my laptop manually mapping your
properties so they’ll show up in mobile searches in the right places. So far
there’s no app for that.
Someone said at our board meeting that I must have a lot of
free time to attend to all of this technical stuff. Not really. We all have
1440 minutes in a day. Last night around 10 pm I was online figuring out how to
hook a dual monitor system to the newest computer in my arsenal and this
morning I was here before 6 am writing to you. I have to go to the office today
for a business meeting and to preview homes we have listed. My new housekeeper
asked me how I could work at this pace, and I told her, half the time I’m
playing. I work awfully hard to be able to play at this level. Yesterday
morning I was up on Cherry
Mountain Robert Frost said, that
makes all the difference.
4 Seasons Homes and Land, Inc
PS Friends, I haven’t
ever asked for you to recommend me to your friends and family members, because
I know most of you live far away, but I’m going to ask you on the behalf of the
buyers and sellers I may, through you, be able to help. If you run across my
profile on Trulia or Zillow (and you can do that by visiting the website and
plugging in the zip code here, 28018) and review my service, it would help me,
and consequently the higher ranking in the site will generate more phone calls,
which will in turn help you. Thanks.
