Real Living partners with Centralized Showing call center
For Central Ohio’s largest residential real estate agency, streamlining the effort to get prospective homebuyers in the door meant adding a middleman.
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HOA Move-In & Out Policy
Americans are a highly mobile society. Considering the amount of personal goods and furniture that many are blessed with, moving a household from one place to another efficiently takes both time and planning. When it comes to homeowner association moves, especially mid and high rise buildings, the logistics often involve coordinating with management, neighbors and others to minimize disruption. Here is a sample policy which can be adapted to your use:
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MLS future: Bring a big gun
Inman blog scan
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Add firepower to real estate presentations
Perspective: An arsenal of ideas for agents
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Kathryn Dean named Wash Univ. architecture graduate school director
Architect Kathryn Dean, founding partner of Dean/Wolf Architects in New York City, has been appointed director of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
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The foreclosure crisis
Curtis and Twyla Christian are facing foreclosure. They?re not sure how they are going to come up with the $8,000 they need to keep their home.
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S&P/Case-Shiller: House price decline rate may be slowing
House prices in metro Atlanta fell 0.6 percent from May to June and dropped 8.1 percent from June 2007 to June 2008, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index.
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home sales rose slightly in July, prices fell
Sales of new homes rose in July, but still fell short of economists’ expectations, and home prices continued to sink.
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Home-price index falls 15.9% in June
Real estate brief
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Offering Sellers a Menu of Services: Good Idea?
Have you ever heard the commission-negotiation-avoidance strategy of creating a menu of packages for a seller to choose among? For example (all figures are illustrative only), you might offer a 4 percent package which includes minimal services; a 5 percent package which has a moderate level of service and a 6 percent package that includes a kitchen-sink level of service.
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