Smart moves for preparing a home with pets to sell
When you make the important decision to sell your home, consider your pets. Removing them during the marketing period can make a big difference in the way your house shows.
How?
Every part of your home is for sale and must be seen easily. Your pet may bark, make a mess, or even worse, bite. A small investment of time and money to stage your house to show well will reap rewards of a quicker sale and a higher price.
Mortgage Morsels: What Are Interest Rates Now?
If a mortgage lender gives you an answer to this without asking you any questions, say thank you, hang up and call someone else.
Why? Because in today’s world there is no such thing as “today’s interest rate”.
What does it take to succeed as an agent in any market?
Some of the least likely people succeed in real estate.
As a manager and broker interviewing potential agents, it was always a challenge trying to figure out those that would be stars, those that would just make it and those that would fail. Experience tells me that an agent’s success or failure is not usually based on one strength or weakness.
Tales From the Listingbook Training Trenches
A typical reaction to Listingbook is: “There’s a great new application that will help transform your business. Yeah, Right!:
But once agents kick the tires a little, they begin to see how it can make a difference in their business.
I see this all the time as the Training Manager for Listingbook.
Listingbook’s Ira Luntz talks about real estate’s “new Web landscape”
Listingbook Executive Vice President Ira Luntz delivers views on the new Web landscape for real estate in a Q&A with Inman News.
Inman’s Roadmap to Recovery editorial project focuses on ways the real estate industry can rebuild in the face of the financial crisis.
Luntz, a 25-year veteran of the industry, is responsible for ensuring the smooth installation and implementation of Listingbook technology with various MLSs nationwide.

