Real Estate Blog - What topics would you like to see?

[Anonymous]

A good real estate blog topic would be: How to buy and sell a house without an agent.

But, oh, wait, you're an agent.

[Anonymous]

I'm an agent and get asked that question at least once a week. I always provide very good helpful information to buyers or sellers who don't want to use an agent. I received an offer last night from an unrepresented buyer who used a contract from Staples that would have totally f**cked him if my seller had signed it. I gave him our board form of contract and told him to fill in the blanks and thereby have the protection a buyer needs.

These are just cheap people who want to save some money. If my house sells to him, fine by me. He will make some mistakes that will cost a little bit of money but he will still save more money by not being represented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You got a terrible reaction when you posted using your name, and are now trying to leave a trail of breadcrumbs for people to Google and find you. It's obvious.
Just stop.

I looked you up in MRIS. You just got your license a few months ago, and you have only done a few transactions. Less than a dozen.

I'm an agent. And I despise what you're doing and what agents like you are doing to the rest of us who bust our butts working hard. I write a blog, not on LNF but on something you've all heard of and read daily and I never mention my name or business here. Ever.

[Anonymous]

19:11 poster. You mean protections like, if the deal gets messed up and somebody wants to sue somebody, the buyer or seller or both has to pay your legal fees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You got a terrible reaction when you posted using your name, and are now trying to leave a trail of breadcrumbs for people to Google and find you. It's obvious.
Just stop.

I looked you up in MRIS. You just got your license a few months ago, and you have only done a few transactions. Less than a dozen.

I'm an agent. And I despise what you're doing and what agents like you are doing to the rest of us who bust our butts working hard. I write a blog, not on LNF but on something you've all heard of and read daily and I never mention my name or business here. Ever.

Well, that escalated quickly.

This poor agent needs marketing ideas, not blog ideas.

[Steve]

Anonymous wrote:Here you go. "Steve" asked for help before and DCUM shut him down

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/460288.page

I was able to validate assumptions and I learned one new thing: How much people want value floor plans.

Now my site it released and I'll work on folding that in some time. I received far more helpful than negative responses so I don't know how you came to your conclusion. Thanks for following me.

[Anonymous]

Unless you can offer some truly unique info or are an amazing writer, don't bother with a blog on your site.

The problem with business blogs is they usually don't provide any value - to the business or the customer. And they are usually poorly maintained.

Better to spend time find clients and sharing knowledge first hand then sitting and writing blog posts. The first will get you farther.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:19:11 poster. You mean protections like, if the deal gets messed up and somebody wants to sue somebody, the buyer or seller or both has to pay your legal fees?

Protection as in if the property doesn't appraise or the buyer can get financing he can void the contract. Same for home inspection and any other type of inspection, he had no out

The default paragraph provided no protection to the buyer is the seller defaulted. I thought the buyer should have that protection

The form of contract did not address legal fees but the buyer's lawyer had an addendum that did address legal fees. Wonder why the lawyer didn't try to protect his client with the ability to void the contract. What do you think, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless you can offer some truly unique info or are an amazing writer, don't bother with a blog on your site.

The problem with business blogs is they usually don't provide any value - to the business or the customer. And they are usually poorly maintained.

Better to spend time find clients and sharing knowledge first hand then sitting and writing blog posts. The first will get you farther.

If you write well do a series of real estate blurbs and have a sheet that you take to open houses. Buyers pick up paper at open houses and allow you to easily engage buyers. The PP is right get from behind your computer and talk to buyers and sellers. No one will read your blog but they will talk to you on a marketing setting such as an open house. You should be doing at least one every weekend and vacant houses on Saturdays. One new agent in my office followed this advice and is doing very well. The others who whined about it will be ex-agents by the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

So you helped an unrepresented buyer write a contract that had worse terms for the seller, your client?

[Anonymous]

PP The unrepresented buyer wrote his own contract which he obtained from Staples. That contract lacked the terms that I inserted into the contract to protect both him and the seller should there be the law suit to which you alluded. He had a lawyer write an addendum to the Staples contract addressing legal fees should there be a suit under the Staples contract, the language I added or the language the lawyer added.

In the Staples contract, the unrepresented buyer wrote: "Buyer will do a home inspection by X date." To protect the seller, I had to add "what happens after the home inspection." If there was no resolution, the seller's property would be tied up in a contract until a court could decide under the suit to which you alluded which should be done about the contact. As written by the unrepresented buyer, there was no way to void the contract.

Again, a seller is protected when all terms are clear in a contract. But you clearly know that.