Priorities To Success In Real Estate

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As the Fall market is fast approaching, it very well may be an ideal time to assess where your business is today and where you would like to take it tomorrow.  A good beginning is to give yourself an honest determination of your strengths and the areas that contribute to your success or lack thereof.     I.   Which of the items below are your… Read More

Real Estate Commissions and Building A Home

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Most Realtors in Fairfield County, Ct. have done an outstanding job of explaining to homeowners the ways in which a lower commission negatively affects the selling price of their homes.  Some agents, however, continue to struggle with delivering this message.  The list below should be extremely helpful to both agents and home sellers in that regard. 1.  Low enthusiasm often equates… Read More

The Lesson, A Mystic and Fate

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We all should know that if we attempt to do something often enough, even if we are great at it, we will lose at least on occasion.  Conventional wisdom is that you can judge a person’s character by the way in which they handle adversity. I recently read what I thought was a similar and interesting perspective… Read More

Photography and Real Estate

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I was recently perusing one of the popular hotel websites.  The exercise served as just another reminder of the importance of photography in marketing anything in our digital world.  Selling real estate, as we are all well aware, is certainly no exception.  I don’t believe any more needs to be written about the importance of stellar… Read More

Karma

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I recently came across a list written by The Dalai Lama.  It was entitled “20 Ways to Get Good Karma.”  Number four was one that made the greatest impression on me.  It read, “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”  Isn’t that the truth? The One That Got Away Other blog… Read More

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