Does Integrity Matter

Does Integrity Matter?

Does integrity matter? If you could have a confidential and totally honest and transparent conversation with a politician in Washington D.C., or a used car salesmen in your town, or a lawyer in the city, or an employee at Google or Amazon, or a division head at the Department of Justice, or a supervisor at

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The Sequim Home Buying Process: The Buyer Timeline

The home buying process in Sequim is a mystery to some who haven’t bought and sold a lot of homes over a lifetime, but even if you have a lot of real estate experience in Boulder, Houston, Miami, San Bernardino, Phoenix, or Anchorage, every real estate market is unique, and every area of the country

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The Ultimate Buyers Agent: Your Personal Concierge

What if you had the ultimate Buyers Agent (apostrophe intentionally left out) who was your personal concierge helping you filter through homes on the Internet long before you arrived in Sequim, and then walked through your list of favorites with you discussing features and the true fair market value of each home with you? And

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A Real Estate Broker Who Puts Clients First?

A real estate broker has a business model and personal values that guide how and what he does for his clients. Too often a real estate broker is focused purely on his commissions, and so everything he does is deeply influenced by the profit motive. The average client would assume their real estate broker is putting

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The Big Mistake Some Buyers Make Selecting a Real Estate Agent

You will be selecting a real estate agent. The purpose of this brief article is to share one tip with you–how to avoid the big mistake that some buyers make when selecting a real estate agent.  If you screw up selecting a real estate agent who can represent you well, it will cost you, not me.

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Do Buyers Owe a Realtor Loyalty?

Loyalty is earned, not automatically deserved. This subject comes up periodically because some buyers have the mistaken notion that they owe their undivided loyalty to the first Realtor they talk to, and other buyers will use several Realtors at the same time with no sense of loyalty at all. The first approach is not wise if

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What is Your Realtor’s Job as a Buyer’s Agent?

What is your Realtor’s job when he or she is representing you as a buyer’s agent? This may surprise you, but as a buyer you probably have a more realistic understanding of what your Realtor’s job is than most Realtors. Today, I want to take a look at what you are entitled to expect of your

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Is There a Moral Obligation to a Realtor?

The question today came from a gentleman who asked whether he had a moral obligation to work with a Realtor who had emailed him and talked to him on the phone about some properties. This gentleman clearly is a man of integrity, and it’s honorable that he would have a sense of loyalty to a Realtor.

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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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Who is Chuck Marunde

Who is the Number 1 Selling Agent in Sequim?

Is your Realtor the number 1 selling agent? If you’re a buyer, you want a real estate agent who has a proven track record, but be careful about statistics. They can be misused. This article will show you what the single most important statistic is if you are hiring a buyer’s agent or a listing

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Do Realtors Exaggerate?

Do Realtors exaggerate about their success using statistics? I think we all know the answer to that. The most articulate answer probably goes something like this, “Some Realtors exaggerate their statistics to make themselves look better than they are, some Realtors exaggerate a little from time to time (still inexcusable), and some Realtors are absolutely

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Sequim Agent Creates Powerful Search Tools

At least one Sequim agent is having the time of his life. “I love this business, and with the incredibly powerful Internet tools that are available today for buyers absolutely free, searching for your ideal home has never been easier, and it’s never been more fun than it is today.” This is one example of

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Sequim Realtor Having More Fun

At least one Sequim Realtor is having more fun than he has ever had in his life. How can a Realtor be having so much fun in the real estate business, and in Sequim, WA no less? I’m happy to share how this is happening. The answer isn’t so much about me as much as it

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If You Get, Give: If You Learn, Teach

“If you get, give: if you learn, teach,” is a quote from Dr. Maya Angelou who was a remarkable woman, an author and a civil rights leader. She died last year at the age of 86. Why do I quote her on this real estate blog? Because her philosophy and the way she lived her life echoes my

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Who is the Number 1 Selling Broker in Sequim?

Who is the Number 1 Selling Broker in the Sequim area, including all of Clallam County? Congratulations are in order to Chuck Marunde, who is the number 1 selling broker of single family homes by volume going back to January 1 of 2013 through the first six months of 2015 thus far. This means Chuck is

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How Does a Buyer’s Agent Work?

What does a Buyer’s Agent do? Here are some practical tips on what a buyer’s agent does and what you should expect. Remember, one of the single most important decisions you will make is who you hire to help you find a home, negotiate the price and terms, and help you through the process of doing your

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Housing Inventory

Sequim Housing Inventory

The Sequim housing inventory is as low as it has been in many years, and buyers arrive every day to search for their perfect retirement home. Buyers moving here tell me there are no storage units available in the Sequim area. That’s never happened before, and it’s another indication of how tight the housing inventory is now. 

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Secret Agent

How would you like a secret agent of your own? Wouldn’t it be great to have a real estate buyer’s agent you can trust to help you filter through the MLS listings in Sequim, Port Angeles, or Port Townsend? Since the best homes in the best areas are selling now, sometimes within a matter of days,

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Research

Be Careful with Research

Buyer’s are doing a lot of research online these days, and there are many free online resources to do a tremendous amount of research on homes and land, but there is a huge trap for the unwary. This real estate blog with almost 1,800 articles, the free online tools (including mobile devices), the books, the

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Please Do Not Mistake My Kindness for Weakness

“Do not mistake my kindness for weakness.” A young man was dating an assertive woman, and he wanted her to know that she should never mistake his gentleness and kindness for weakness. The young man was a professional fighter, but he was also a humble and kind personality. That kind of personality can be misunderstood,

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