Tag Archives: Real estate
Vegas and RESPRO – What Happened is Definitely Not Staying!
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Rick Gregory.
I attended RESPRO’s (Real Estate Services Provider Council, Inc.) 2010 Annual Conference in Las Vegas and found the event time very well spent.
This being my first time to RESPRO’s conference, I was a little unsure of what to expect. I knew there would be presentations and content shared regarding all of the recent RESPA enhancements, [...]
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Plan to Forecast?
Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Jeff Lefkowitz.
These are the “Dog Days” of March: we still feel winter’s chill (especially here in the northeastern US,) the next major holiday is Memorial Day, and we’re just getting a feel for the 2010 sales market. We are also inching closer to our first tweak of the Operating Plan, or even possibly, that time when [...]
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Two Things: Agents and Listings
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Wendy Forsythe.
I believe there is great power in simplicity. I think we generally over complicate business. Heck, I think we generally over complicate life. But that’s a completely different blog post.
Let’s get back to keeping it simple in the real estate business. I have several people in my life who remind me almost daily that what we do [...]
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“Can you rephrase that, please?”
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Paulette Costa.
How many ways can you express your thoughts? Dan Roam gets us thinking about expressing our thoughts in pictures in his book Back of the Napkin. It’s a great concept and use this type of simplistic art to demonstrate ideas and concepts often and it works well, especially when I’m communicating with visual thinkers who, according [...]
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Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Sherry Chris.
On the one year anniversary of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), more than one million homeowners have gotten temporary reductions in their mortgage payments, with 12 percent receiving permanent modifications. Although to date this is just minimal success, plans announced this week will increase this percentage significantly as banks rethink their policies and qualifications. [...]
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One-Stop Shopping: What’s Happening?!
Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Rick Gregory.
It almost feels old fashioned to use the words “one-stop shopping”. Heck, it was very common many years ago for real estate firms to own both insurance agencies and mortgage brokerages (even my great grandfather owned a real estate and insurance company back in the early 1900’s in Hackettstown, NJ.) In today’s world, however, we [...]
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7 Steps to Reinventing Your Leadership Style
Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Robert Albanese.
How often have you heard people say “if I could just start over again, I would…” and statements of that type? Please read the following statement and then stop for a few moments and just think about it.
“If you want to completely reinvent your leadership style, you can. But you must plan well and then deliver [...]
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Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Sherry Chris.
This week officially kicks off the beginning of real estate season or, as I like to say, the Real Estate New Year. The 2.9 percent increase over December on new “For Sale” homes in January certainly will help the market get off to a great start. I wish everyone a Happy Real Estate New Year [...]
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Dig Up Your Passion and Energize Your Enterprise
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Paulette Costa.
I’ve observed a disconnect in our business recently. Like the economic debacle we are experiencing, it didn’t happen overnight. It was a long and winding road that sidetracked us – from home ownership advisors to contract writers; from proactive to passive prospectors, from excited drivers of business to expectant and sometimes even complacent riders on the [...]
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Are You Running With or Against the Wind?
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Jeff Lefkowitz.
Whether you’re running a multi-office brokerage, or you’re running your own niche role, one thing is for certain: in the Real Estate business you will always be “running” -running to make sure your operations are covered, running to keep your clients happy, running to improve profitability. It’s hard to break that pattern. There is so [...]
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Protecting Consumer Data in the Real Estate Industry
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Robert Albanese.
As we begin the new year, I thought that it would be a good idea to write a brief reminder about the importance of protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in our business practices. It is important to keep in mind that PII is captured in many ways, some that immediately jump out at us, and [...]




