A look at everyday life with our Century 21 team
We just returned from the CENTURY 21 Global Conference in New Orleans. What a great company! There were so many things offered, there just wasn’t enough time to take it all in. We learned so much and met some really inspirational people. It feels good to come home with our heads full of great ideas! …
Dave recently returned from a market evaluation feeling discouraged about the lake home being too dated to appeal to buyers. He said it was a solid, well built structure and was clean and well cared for, but he just couldn’t see buyers getting excited about the way the place looked inside. I could see his …
I recently caught up with Dave McNulty to ask him about one of his closings. I’d heard the sellers had an exceptional background and wanted to know more about them. Dave told me one of the sellers spent two years in a concentration camp in Europe and actually witnessed his own father being shot. After …
Every morning we wake to and every day we live around the sound of chainsaws and wood chippers. It’s not the peaceful summer sound that we expected to surround ourselves with this year, but we say to ourselves that it’s the sound of progress. It’s like my dad used to say about the smell …
We finally synched our schedules with the weather and were able to put our dock in the lake last night. It feels so great to be interacting with open water again! Now we just need a boat and some sunshine… I guess I’ll settle for partly cloudy at this point. I don’t think I’m being …
The local Realtors Association just released trend numbers for our area, showing three years of listing and sales activity. I was anxious to analyze what they sent, because the last three years have been very interesting – to say the least. Two of the trends that stood out to me are relevant to potential sellers and buyers and answer two …
We’ve had a string of really nice listings come on board in the last few weeks. Every Tuesday morning we gather for our Property Tour to see our new listings and the anticipation of finding out what we will be seeing is really fun. After Property Tour, the work of matching properties with our buyers begins. It’s easy to …
Our weekly Property Tour offers an opportunity to discuss aspects of our new listings that may raise red flags with buyers or lenders. The new lending environment that we are faced with is less forgiving than ever before, so we like to know if we have hurdles to clear before we get to a crisis …
The last month has been full of activity for us! The onset of summer brings more people to the area and that means a lot more contact with property owners and potential buyers for us. We love it! It’s a feast and famine business, like many others and we could always use more horses when …
Every week, when we gather for our property tour, there is a great anticipation among the group about what lies ahead. We love to see new properties! Yes, it’s everything everyone thinks – fun! However, it’s a very small part of what comprises our actual day to day work, so when we get to see …
