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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Who is the No 1 Sequim Real Estate Agent?

If you ask who the No 1 Sequim real estate agent is, you would get a number of answers, depending on whom you ask. You might ask even before you hear the answer, “Who cares?” I like that kind of skeptical question.  I’m one of those people who doesn’t put much stock in statistics, because

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How to Find a Real Estate Agent in Sequim or Port Angeles

How to find a real estate agent in Sequim or Port Angeles is one of the most important issues for a buyer or seller today, and that’s true whether you live outside the area or have lived in Clallam County for 20 years.  The real estate business has been changing dramatically, brokers have gone out

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Sequim Real Estate Broker and Integrity

A Sequim real estate broker has been and continues to set the pace for brokers on the Olympic Peninsula.  We are way out in front with the most powerful Internet marketing system on the Peninsula of any agent or broker. We have been first over and over again, and every time we are giving buyers

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Sequim Escrow: The Real Estate Closing Process

A Sequim escrow is a real estate closing, and the process is a little bit of a mystery to most people.  Buyers often ask, “How does a closing work and what can I expect when I buy my Sequim home?”  Let me take the mystery out of escrow and closing.   Sequim Escrow – What

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Real Estate Agents – A Dime a Dozen?

Are real estate agents a dime a dozen?  Maybe they are, but I’m reminded of something I learned many years ago in Alaska.  I had graduated from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks with a degree in economics, but I wanted to become a teacher.  I knew that teachers were a dime a dozen, and

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Real Estate Marketing

Real estate marketing.  Where is the wisdom?  That is a question I have asked rhetorically in years past when I hear of foolish decisions or major blunders in real estate marketing or any part of a transaction.  I hate to see a real estate transaction killed because of inexperience or foolishness.  On a national scale,

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The Curse of a Referral: Referrals Are Supposed to be Reliable

We have been taught in business that referrals are the most reliable way to find a professional, and we have been taught for decades that the best source of business is referrals from happy clients or friends or business acquaintances.  And that has been the teaching in the real estate brokerage business, at least it

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Wanted: New Sequim and Port Angeles Real Estate Agents

Sequim and Port Angeles Real Estate (branch office of eXp Realty) is hiring new agents who want to be trained and mentored to be top producers. Training and mentoring at entirely new levels Broker is a 20-year real estate attorney (ret.), successful Realtor and top producer, author of two books and thousands of articles Cutting edge

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Who is this Sequim Realtor?

Who is this Sequim Realtor?  He was a Captain in the USAF during the first Kuwait war and stationed at Nellis AFB near Las Vegas.  He loved running 15 miles across the desert at 100 degrees, and became a lover of nature photography.  He left the Air Force to work in Prison Ministry, and then

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The Case of the Disappearing Realtor

Sounds like the title to a tantalizing new mystery book, doesn’t it?   A book like that might  be chock full of suspense with the characters  experiencing emotions ranging from  confusion to  frustration and a maybe even a dash of irritation. Too bad that what I’m talking about here isn’t fiction.   For far too

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Sequim Real Estate Broker Creates Massive Internet Brokerage

Sequim real estate agents are wondering what Chuck Marunde is doing to sell so many homes and get so many qualified leads.   Neighbors of a home Chuck has listed in Sunland on the golf course are seeing the sign and the activity and wondering who this broker is.   They’re used to seeing the

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Finding a Real Estate Agent Who is Good

Finding a real estate agent who is good is not something some people consider important, or they don’t realize how to find a good real estate agent. Pick a Real Estate Agent (Pick a Card) A buyer decides he needs a real estate agent to buy a home, but this buyer makes a huge mistake,

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Real Estate Agents on Bicycles?

Some real estate agents around the country are riding bicycles to save gas and the environment while they show their clients homes for sale.   Amazing!   In this photo, an agent in San Diego takes clients out. This presents a challenge to all of us who are Realtors.   Do we promote bicycling to

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Jobs: Hiring Sequim Real Estate Agents

Sequim and Port Angeles Real Estate, LLC, Broker Chuck Marunde is paying out 90% to agents, and that’s virtually unheard of in Sequim and Port Angeles.   Chuck reflects here.   “Agents need to be able to take home a lot more of their own commissions, and that means reducing their ridiculously high overhead and

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Sequim Real Estate Agents

How many Sequim agents are there? By my last count there are 218 real estate agents in Sequim, Washington. Wow. That’s one agent for every 18 Sequim residents (including babies), if you believe the city population of 4,000. Of course, most of the agents do serve a larger area outside the city limits, too. Okay,

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