Sellers 4 Inexpensive and Easy Ways to Get More When You Sell Your Home When you first put your house on the market, you want to boost the value as much as possible before showings start rolling in. This can seem like a daunting task, which can come at a hefty price. However, there are several ways to add value to your house that are easy to accomplish and […]
Agents Ask and you shall receive…Want Success? Ask the right questions. Key Takeaways: You cannot advise and consult without knowledge of the Client  Only through Asking the right questions, can you be a Trusted Advisor The right Questions are paramount to a Realtor’s success Cast aside Ego, Fear, Judgement, and Assumptions    I recently was in a two-day Counsel of Residential Specialist (CRS) seminar, taught by Mr. […]
Agents The Only Thing We Have to Fear…Is Success? Key Takeaways:  Many time-consuming tasks can be Delegated. Fear of Delegation is a real, crippling hurdle. Many agents fear what lies at the end of a successfully-leveraged business. We must face our fear to create the business and freedom we seek.   As a real estate broker in Boise, Idaho; I hear the oft-repeated refrain […]
Agents What is an “Ethical” Decision? A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making Key Takeaways:  Realtors are often faced with ethical dilemmas which have no ready-made answer or solution  The path to ethical decision making lies in asking yourself the proper questions What is “Legal” and what is “Ethical” are often not the same    As Realtors and Fiduciaries (which I firmly believe we should behave as such); […]
Entrepreneur I Hate Cubicles Key Takeaways:  The Millennial Workforce is demanding open, collaborative work space I’m pretty sure nobody has ever liked Cubes… seriously  Advancements in wireless data transfer have assisted open-concept design  Open-Concept office design affords flexibility and greater space-utilization to users    I hate cubicles and it seems that I am not alone. Across the country, one […]
Agents Dress for Success: What You Wear Matters Key Takeaways  What you wear, and your appearance in general, has a direct impact on your success.  Like it or not, others will judge you based on your appearance. Perception is reality – create the reality you wish for yourself.   This may frustrate some people. I hope that it stirs up some thought and […]
Entrepreneur Planet of The Apes: Where eCommerce and Traditional Retail Collide Whether you believe that we are all descendants of apes, it is not difficult to see from where the comparisons stem. Mankind is very basic in terms of needs, desires, and motivation. My belief that our evolution will never take us completely away from this “Primate” intuition is a consistent theme in my posts. As a […]
Agents Why are you reading this? 5 Questions to ask Every Single Buyer The following questions should take place at your Buyer Consultation. We feel that it is imperative to hold a Buyer Consultation, for every buyer client you work with.  It is only through the vetting process and Q&A of some sort of buyer consult, can you hope to gain the necessary knowledge of your client in […]
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Entrepreneur To Brick, Or Not To Brick? As much as moving “To the Cloud” has been embraced in the past decade; so has moving “To the Street”. Online retailers, such as the eyeglass retailer Warby Parker, have seen significant gains in market share and penetration using physical brick and mortar stores.  The physical locations are used as marketing tools much more than they […]
Agents “Are you Planning to Fail?” – Framework of A Business Plan A good business plan should start with answering the question, “WHY?”    That is, why are we doing this? Why am I (or we) starting this company and what do we hope to accomplish? What do we hope to give to our customers and clients? What is our unique value proposition? What moves us in a […]
Agents Team Up with an Investor: How a realtor can expand business with investors How is representing investors in residential and small multifamily properties different from representing homebuyers?  Investors have different goals than do the average homeowner. Typically, investors have specific criteria for which they are investing, which can be highly dependent upon the individual. However, investors are all similar in that they are seeking some type of return on the […]
Agents It is Not About You: The best piece of business advice I ever heard… Although it is something that had been rattling around in my head for years; I first heard the following from Mr. Jay Abraham:   Love the Customer, not the Product/Service You Provide Love the customer. Better yet, consider the customer a life-long client and fall in love with them. To provide the high level of value to […]
Buyers The Money Pit: 3 Efficient and Cost Effective Improvements for Your Home Suggestions and tips for home improvement can be highly subjective based on the goals of the homeowner. For example, is the improvement taking place in order to increase the marketability or market value of the home? Is the improvement necessary due to some sort of functional obsolescence or deferred maintenance? Perhaps the improvement is not […]
Investment Properties Boise Office Space Construction Despite Vacancy There are several dynamics, on both the Supply and Demand side, which lead to over-supply of office buildings, and the initiation of development projects in already-high vacancy environments. I have found that identifying the causes is much easier than brainstorming viable solutions. This dynamic has not been as prevalent in the Boise market as it has been […]
Agents It’s the Inequality, Stupid For a long while, I have suspected that the top agents in our industry collect a disproportionate amount of the sales and income available in the market. This was supported mostly by my own observations and qualitative evidence; along with National Association of Realtors Statistics such as: 84% of those who obtain a real estate license are out of the […]
Entrepreneur So, you want to be unemployed? Tips for an Aspiring Entrepreneur. In October of 2012 I was a Boise City Firefighter, a union member, and a public employee. I had one of the most dependable occupations one can have, at least in regards to the danger of being fired (no pun intended). Two days later, in November, I was unemployed and on the streets. Well, not […]
Agents The “Secret” of Passion Passion… such a powerful word. We all desire passion. We all seek to live with gusto and passion in varying degrees, to varying extents and in various arenas. Often, we look at passionate people and think, “If only I could have the passion that they do… imagine the action I could take towards living my […]
Investment Properties Real Estate Investors who are killing it Real Estate Investing 101 The key to any real estate investing is that you make your money on the buy and not on the sell.  If you buy the wrong property or even if you buy the right property at the wrong time; you will lose money. Timing, the knowledge of market movement, and the […]
Agents Time Management Skills and Habits Why does this matter? Well, we all have the same 24 hours to work with each day. Some people have trained themselves to get 10X the amount of productive action wrapped into their day than do other people. How do they do this?   When I think about Time Management I think about two concepts: […]
Agents Seven Realtor Technology Trends Recently, at INMAN Connect San Francisco, National Speaker and Tech Guru Kristi Kennelly presented 7 Technology Tips and Trends that are reshaping our potential as Realtors to execute our profession. They have been summarized below for your reading pleasure.   LINKEDIN Contact Export – How many of us have dozens, if not hundreds, of LinkedIN contacts? […]