Category Archives: Education

The Real Estate Swagger Rap – by the Tom Ferry Training Crew

Coach to realtors, Tom Ferry and his crew have put together this amusing real estate rap video – and it actually tells a pretty accurate story of what has happened to the real estate market, locally and nationally. Credit for me seeing this goes to Stacia Loo of Thach Real Estate Group who posted it…

HUD launches the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program (EHLP) – Washington Residents Eligible for Assistance

This is a media release that was sent to me for BellevueBusinessJournal.com, but I wanted to post it here so that my real estate clients and readers can learn about it here first. On June 20, 2011, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in conjunction with NeighborWorks America launched the Emergency…

Are YOU a Salesperson? Four Steps to Overcoming Sales Objections

In all the years I’ve been involved in real estate as a real estate broker, agent, property manager, appraiser, leasing agent, new home sales and in multi-family development and investment, I’ve never considered myself a sales person.  There are many who believe that we are all sales people, constantly selling ourselves and there is probably…

Want to Use Technology to Be More Efficient in Your Business?

If you use (or want to use) technology to be more efficient in your business, you should be subscribed to Denny Andrews‘s 90 Second Technology Tips.  I’m a subscriber and look forward to each and every episode that Denny puts out.  Check it out!

One-Day Real Estate Marketing Training Event Comes to Bellevue: Agent Reboot

This was first posted at BellevueBusinessJournal.com and is re-posted here with permission.  If you work in the real estate and/or tech industries and have not been to an Inman event, you are missing out.  I’ve been to Inman Real Estate Connect conferences in San Francisco and New York and they are always great events.  Hope…

AAA Properties Actively Recruiting Agents/Brokers Looking for Low Costs, High Commission Splits

After flying under the radar as a one broker office for a few years and for the past couple of years having just one other agent, my company, AAA Properties is now actively recruiting new real estate agents (now called Brokers here in Washington state).  Because I have a small office with very low overhead,…

The Big Idea: Your Most Valuable Skill

The Big Idea — Your Most Valuable Skill From Brian Johnson’s PhilosophersNotes:  “The most valuable skill that you could ever develop is the skill of directing your thoughts toward what you want—to be adept at quickly evaluating all situations and then quickly coming to the conclusion of what you most want—and then giving your undivided…