Urgent Alert: Sophisticated Email Scams Target Real Estate Industry
If you haven’t already heard the news, there are some pretty sophisticated scams targeting the real estate industry—the real estate professional, homebuyers and home sellers. Criminals are hacking into the email accounts of real estate agents or others involved in a...
How’s Your Transaction Management Plan?
Like most real estate agents and brokers, when I first started in real estate, the office where I worked required the agent to create and maintain an on site copy of their file at the brokerage main office. Unless you (the agent) retained a complete backup of the...
Get Agency Confirmation. Get Paid.
What Is Agency Confirmation? Often times, when we, California transaction coordinators, are working on a real estate transaction for an agent and a seller or buyer, we receive an Agency Confirmation (AC) from the transaction coordinator or agent on the other side of...
4 Items to Include in Your Listing Presentation
I’m beginning to sound like an old timer when I say that I firmly believe that “if you do not list, you will not last.” It’s as if I am saying, “In my day, we walked five miles to school every day in the snow….” Nevertheless, you can handle so many more sellers at one...
Are you a one-man band? If so, read this…
Have you ever seen a one-man band? I’ve seen this guy before—fairly recently actually when I walked through Chinatown in Los Angeles, after a trip to “Art in the Streets” at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He’s actually pretty good. According to the signs, he has been...