Agent Interview Checklist
I’ve created many checklists over the years, and I thought you might find these checklists helpful. There is a Buyer’s Checklist, a Buyer’s Closing Checklist, a Vacant Land Checklist, and a Real Estate Agent Interview Checklist: Sequim Buyer’s Checklists Possibly Related Posts: Port Townsend Video Tour Sequim Horse Property Are Buyers Competing to Bid Prices
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Real Estate Agent Interview Checklist
Do you have a real estate agent interview checklist? There are some very important questions you really should ask your prospective agent before you hire him or her. This list of real estate agent interview questions is the result of 37 years in real estate as a Realtor and attorney. I’ve had many real estate
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Sequim Real Estate Checklists
Chuck Marunde created a number of Sequim real estate checklists over the past two decades, and buyers from around the country have been using these to keep themselves out of trouble and to make wise decisions about buying Sequim real estate. So today we will share some of our most popular checklists. (You might want
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How to Sell Your Home: 7 Myths Part 3
Introduction to 5 Installments: Selling your home is no small matter, and since I’ve been in the real estate business going back four decades and transitioned from traditional marketing to powerful Internet marketing technologies, I’ve seen a lot of changes. While consumers are quite aware of the changes in how they search for homes and
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Review Their Online Resume
You can learn a lot about a person by reviewing their online resume and their history and standing in the profession. I’m astonished, however, how few Realtors are actually using the Internet, and how many don’t have a good resume online for buyers like you to read. For goodness sakes, whatever you do, do not
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Why Emotional IQ is Important for Your Realtor
Your Realtor’s emotional IQ (intelligence quotient) is far more important than most people realize, and I’ll tell you exactly why. Most people certainly realize that their agent should have a lot of real estate knowledge. They also realize that competence, professionalism and honesty are critically important. So now that we’ve just eliminated 50% of all
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How to Sell My Home from an Industry Insider
“How to sell my home” is an important question if you want to sell your California or Colorado or Texas home prior to buying a home in Sequim. Maybe you’re in a hot market, and your home will sell the first day with offers above the listing price, or maybe you’re in a normal market
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Due Diligence and Buying Your Home
Doing your due diligence when you buy a home is extremely important, or you could end up with some big mistakes, like paying too much for a home, or discovering problems you should have discovered before you closed. I’ve written many articles on this real estate blog about due diligence on every aspect of buying. Here
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How to Sell My Home and 7 Myths of Selling a Home
How to sell my home is a question that many homeowners have been asking. The challenge for a homeowner without hands on experience within the real estate industry is that there are many myths about selling homes, and real estate professionals propagate some of these myths. If you plan to sell your home, this is
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The Whole Real Estate Business is Changing
The real estate business is changing dramatically right in front of our eyes, and don’t believe for a second that it isn’t changing for consumers like you. It is. Many of the changes are obvious to buyers, like being able to use the Internet to search for real estate, and being able to do so
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Your Real Estate Agent: Quantity or Quality?
Advertising drives almost everything today, even which real estate agent some buyers and sellers hire. How do you choose your real estate agent? I received a call from a homeowner who wanted to sell her home, and she was clearly impressed with which agent has the most listings or who sells the most homes. Little
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Don’t Forget Your Sequim Internet Connection
When you buy a home in the Sequim area, do not forget your Sequim Internet connection. A good high speed Internet service is almost as essential as electricity today. Who doesn’t use the Internet? Now that videos are so popular and streaming movies is also big, high speed and plenty of bandwidth is mandatory. Not
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Do People Hate Real Estate Agents?
Do people really hate real estate agents? This is an intriguing question, but not without merit. There are two professions that have earned very bad reputations, no three: used car salesmen, lawyers, and real estate agents. I have spent my life in the latter two professions. As an insider, I can tell you attorneys earned
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Resources for Buyers
This Sequim Real Estate Blog has so many resources, it became obvious I needed a page with links to many of these resources. Sequim & Port Angeles Real Estate (also registered as iRealty Virtual Brokers) has built the single largest library of powerful resources for buyers of Sequim real estate. This page and the links
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How to Find a Sequim Home
How to find a Sequim home with video help is today’s topic. I’ve talked with hundreds of buyers in the past few years, and I’ve shown hundreds of homes. I’ve helped a lot of buyers find their ideal retirement homes. In the process I’ve learned what buyers are doing to search for their homes. I
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Where is the Adult Supervision in Real Estate?
Do we need adult supervision in the real estate profession to protect consumers like you from unethical, illegal, fraudulent, or just incompetent behaviors? Doesn’t the profession already have plenty of adult supervision? As a retired attorney and real estate broker, I can tell you the answer is, “Not so much,” and here’s how to protect
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Buyers Hire the First Real Estate Agent They Talk To?
Did you know the first real estate agent buyers talk to is the one they usually hire? A National Association of Realtors’ survey indicated that 85% of buyers hire the first real estate agent they talk to on the phone without any pre-qualification, without any interview, without any due diligence. Hard to believe? Buyers Hire First
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Greatest Fears of Buyers
The greatest fears of buyers are many, but the vast majority are not actually things buyers need to worry about. Mark Twain said, “My life has been filled with calamities, some of which actually happened.” We all tend to worry about things that never happen and are unlikely to happen. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati
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Green Homes in Sequim and Port Angeles?
Green homes and eco-friendly building has become one of the hot subjects of the day, and has been for quite a while. Builders are running advertisements about how green their new homes are. Realtors are taking seminars to get green credentials to add to their name with all their other initials. Appliances are advertising eco-friendly
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Your Sequim Home Builder and Quality
How do you know if your Sequim home builder will really build your retirement home with the kind of quality you have dreamed about for years? Of course, one answer is that you won’t until you are living in it for a while. The other answer, which is the better one is to find a
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