It’s the end of February and every year about this time, people tell me they want to sell their home in the spring. What they don’t realize is we are already well into the spring market right now. Just this last weekend my real estate team got four different buyer clients under contract to purchase […more]
We wanted to talk to you about what’s going on. There’s been a lot of changes in our industry and in our world in the last even couple of days, a couple of weeks, last couple of months. We’ve gotten a lot of inquiries, questions, concerns, all of that and we wanted to have […more]
I told myself I wasn’t going to write anything about the Coronavirus but this morning I felt the need to discuss my personal roller coaster of emotions surrounding the events of the last two weeks. Please do not translate this to mean that I think I’m all that important or that I have huge problems. […more]
This is my first blog post in several days, and since then the Corona virus has taken over our everyday lives. I plan to continue to post home sales stats; as far as reporting on new businesses and events in the Brookside/Waldo area–that news is on hold, since most of it right now consists of […more]
I wanted to take a moment to talk to you guys about what’s going on in the Kansas City real estate market and give you some information on how the coronavirus is affecting us and what it means to you and your family. I pulled some numbers this morning based on what currently went […more]
As a top real estate agent in the Kansas City area, I get asked a lot of questions. One of the most common questions from sellers is, “If our home doesn’t sell right away, how do we know when we need to lower the asking price?” My blunt answer is, “When the home isn’t receiving […more]
A few days ago I got a random phone call from someone that was asking about a “pre-foreclosure.” I asked, “Did you see that on Zillow.com?” I knew he had, because that’s really the only public website that advertises pre-foreclosures. I said to him, “Do you have a few minutes for me to explain what […more]
In America today, I’m convinced that we are now conditioned to accept mediocre customer service. Too many managers don’t teach their employees how to speak with a customer. Too many companies get bloated and stop focusing on the experience from the customer’s view and start focusing on their bottom line. The product you want to […more]
Over the last three years, my real estate team has been involved in over 150 bidding wars, mostly as the seller’s agent. We’ve become experts at it and I’ve personally taught classes on this subject at the Kansas City Realtors Association in Overland Park, Kansas. I could probably write an entire book on the subject […more]
The internet has obviously transformed our lives, but as a REALTOR®, I sometimes have this love-hate relationship with it. I love it because it saves me countless hours of time and helps me sell homes faster, but it also causes some of my clients to be upset, frustrated, and even downright angry. Sometimes that misguided […more]