First Funds Framed

Posted on Jun 16, 2011 by in Buyers, Real Estate Career

You know how some businesses will keep the first dollar they ever made and frame it?  Usually they display it somewhere near the front door or the cash register, or in the office.  I always thought that was a neat idea, although I’ve never done it. In real estate, you need to keep client files [...]

Community Service Day

Posted on Jun 21, 2010 by in Real Estate Career, Tri-Cities, WA

I love being a part of Windermere Real Estate. Perhaps my favorite part of being a Realtor here is Community Service Day. There’s always a lot of grumbling, at least on my part, in the days leading up to it. I think about past projects and the year we had way too much to do [...]

Personal Business Year-end Re-cap

Posted on Dec 30, 2008 by in Real Estate Career

The latest issue of The Real Estate Book, which is a publication that features local homes for sale, has several pages of agents trumpeting their total sales for the year.  Another agent and I joked that we had “missed the memo” stating that this was the year to advertise this way.  Seriously, it’s like the [...]

Real Estate on my iPhone

Posted on Sep 10, 2008 by in Real Estate Career

I just got a new iPhone, and I LOVE it!!!  A blackberry technically would have been better, because then I would have had access to the local MLS, which for some unknown reason isn’t navigable on a Mac-based system. But, who cares?  I can use it like a cell phone, listen to some iTunes while [...]

Tri-Cities Tech Tip

Posted on Feb 28, 2008 by in Miscellaneous, Real Estate Career

Yeah, I know, I know – I told you a couple months ago that, despite my reputation for being the techiest tech techster REALTOR in Tri-Cities, WA I’m not really THAT amazing. But yesterday we had a web site class here at the brokerage, and people were trying to figure out what their domain names [...]

I Only Heard the Water Running…

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 by in Real Estate Career, Real Estate Industry

This poor agent in England…he was showing a house and encountered a nightmare. The worst thing that ever happened to me while showing a house is hearing the sounds of someone in the shower.  The buyer and I skedaddled before the owner exited the bathroom! 

Oodles of Googles

Posted on Jan 19, 2008 by in Real Estate Career

It is standard procedure when someone I don’t know contacts me via my web site or a floor call, to google them.  I basically check to see if they have a criminal record or were mentioned in the paper for some nefarious reason.  It’s not fail-safe, by any means.  Another agent did the same thing and nothing negative [...]

First Post of the Year on the 5th day of the Year

Posted on Jan 5, 2008 by in Real Estate Career

I know, I know…my husband, Matt McGee (SEO Extraordinaire) is going to kill me.  His favorite mantra (besides, “Do your shoes belong here?!”) is “Write everyday…you need new, fresh content everyday!” Well, I don’t always have new, fresh, exciting things to write about.  So I went back and took a look at my 2007 posts.  [...]

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