Colorado Mortgage Loans by Ben Yost

One of the things that I admire about Greg is how thoroughly he makes sure that EVERYTHING he can do is done to market a sellers property. Custom signs, coffee table books, the list goes on and on. When it comes to sellers, he gets his money the old fashioned way, he earns it.

One of the quiet unsung Bloodhound heroes of a broker is Cheryl Johnson. If you want to see someone who puts EFFORT into building Read the rest of this entry »

Teams have proven themselves a potentially profitable strategy in real estate brokerage, as almost every mid-large company has at least one pretty successful team under its roof. I’ve never had buyer agents or specialized listing agents on my team. I use the same philosophy Dad and his buds.

Though they all agreed about the possible income teams offered, many eschewed that approach for a modified Read the rest of this entry »

One of my favorite recent projects has been AreaAtlantaHomes.Com.

What’s most exciting for me is that the project itself is being cooked up with some ingredients that are really conducive to it evolving into the Broker Market Domination System I talked about here a few months ago:

The Marketplace is a large Metro Area with lots of interesting geographic niche opportunities and a naturally progressive Read the rest of this entry »

Have you heard of Private Transfer Fees?  A private transfer fee is a fee that is required to be paid each time a property is sold at closing.  The transfer fee is attached to the property as a covenant that can run for a period, often 20 or 100 years.

The fees are being used for a variety of purposes.  In some cases, they have been used to satisfy demands from environmental groups.  Read the rest of this entry »

Mr. Obama’s latest program for the foreclosure crisis attempts to stabilize the market in a different way than his previous attempts.  Before, the feds tried to keep people in their homes by negotiating reduced payments through loan modifications.  Few people were able to use the programs and of those that did the rate of default recidivism was 50% within six months.  The “new” Read the rest of this entry »

[Kicking this back to the top from March of 2007. -- GSS]

I wrote this in 1996, I think. This was a fun story for me, a chance to play with two characters I like a lot. Brian Brady has wondered about locales in these stories. There always is one, a real place where the events transpire, but the narrative is so minimal, I can’t see how anyone could guess where they’re set. Not this time. Read the rest of this entry »

[Teri mentioned this old post (from June 2007) to me on Friday, and I'm revisiting the third act because it's pertinent to some new business I want to take up tomorrow or Monday. --GSS]

 
Extracted from BloodhoundBlog post #1590:

This came in as a comment last night.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be competitive and wanting to win, but, reading your posts the last few weeks, you ego is a Read the rest of this entry »

I attended Homegain Nation early this week.  It was a fantastic time, giving me the opportunity to meet many great people I’ve known online for years.  I decided to run a little experiment and bring my Ubuntu laptop, while leaving my windoze machine at home.  So…Ubuntu performed extremely well, but MLS vendors performed very poorly.  I was not able to get the following Read the rest of this entry »

Technology “expert” Clifford Stoll precisely 15 years ago in Newsweek:
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote this coming on four years ago, one of my last posts to PresenceOfMind.net, my philosophical/political/literary home on the web. The planned strike of our undocumented friends has come and gone, but the underlying idea — a strike against the looters on June 1st — still resonates with me. What say you? Is this something worth pursuing? –GSS

Francisco looked silently out Read the rest of this entry »