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HOW TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE SAFELY
If you think real estate agents are dodgy, you obviously haven’t met property investment advisers, they are mostly worse than dodgy, they are deadly.
How to Handle Agents: Part 3
Your home is “listed” with an agent. If you took note of the first two parts in this series on “how to handle agents”, things should be going well for you.
Warning as “Rogue Agent” Busted
Unlike so many modern agents, Brent Peters doesn’t look like a “rogue estate agent”. He hasn’t got a slick shifty look to him.
How to handle agents : Part 2
Okay, you’ve contacted a few agents. They are on their way to your place. What are you going to do when they arrive?
How to Handle Agents: Part 1
Last Saturday I spoke with a pig. Rude, mean, inconsiderate, selfish – a horrible man. It’s probably an insult to call him a pig – an insult to pigs I mean.
Buy a Buyer!
Today’s most common real estate scam is the ‘ad scam’. Most agents mislead sellers into believing that sellers “need to pay marketing costs”.
Where Your Ad Money Goes!
On the surface, it all seems fair and reasonable. You need to sell your home. Your agent says you need to advertise so you can attract buyers. It costs money to advertise. As the advertising is all about you and your home, it seems fair that you pay for it.
Protect or rescue
Thomas is a 33-year-old underground miner with four children under six. He lives in a remote town. Two years ago, wanting to secure his family’s future, he contacted a real estate wealth creation company on-line.
Sell first or buy first?
Few things make agents more excited than a “seriously motivated vendor”. In lay terms, that means a homeowner with a powerful reason to sell. There are few more powerful reasons than buying another home before selling your existing home.
Booming lies
The one thing always booming in real estate is the lies the industry tells the public. Aside from the daily false quotes given to sellers and buyers about the prices of properties, the most common lies are the auction clearance rates.
Don’t get “TIED” to a Real Estate Agent
Recently, a home-seller signed-up to sell her home with an agent. What happened next is what happens to thousands of sellers.
‘Auction clearance’ lies
Auction clearance rates are lies. Pumped-up statistics. It doesn’t matter who’s sprouting them, auction clearance rates are deliberately false. They are so far from true as to be laughable.
10 worst lies real estate agents tell home-sellers
The old joke: “How do you know when real estate agents are lying? Answer: When their lips are moving.” is not a joke, it’s real.
Home sellers – do not drop your price!
When home sellers get anxious about selling, the first thing they usually do – or, more correctly, the first thing agents suggest they do – is “drop the price”.
HOW TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE SAFELY
If you think real estate agents are dodgy, you obviously haven’t met property investment advisers, they are mostly worse than dodgy, they are deadly.
How to Handle Agents: Part 3
Your home is “listed” with an agent. If you took note of the first two parts in this series on “how to handle agents”, things should be going well for you.
Warning as “Rogue Agent” Busted
Unlike so many modern agents, Brent Peters doesn’t look like a “rogue estate agent”. He hasn’t got a slick shifty look to him.
How to handle agents : Part 2
Okay, you’ve contacted a few agents. They are on their way to your place. What are you going to do when they arrive?
How to Handle Agents: Part 1
Last Saturday I spoke with a pig. Rude, mean, inconsiderate, selfish – a horrible man. It’s probably an insult to call him a pig – an insult to pigs I mean.
Buy a Buyer!
Today’s most common real estate scam is the ‘ad scam’. Most agents mislead sellers into believing that sellers “need to pay marketing costs”.
Where Your Ad Money Goes!
On the surface, it all seems fair and reasonable. You need to sell your home. Your agent says you need to advertise so you can attract buyers. It costs money to advertise. As the advertising is all about you and your home, it seems fair that you pay for it.
Protect or rescue
Thomas is a 33-year-old underground miner with four children under six. He lives in a remote town. Two years ago, wanting to secure his family’s future, he contacted a real estate wealth creation company on-line.
Sell first or buy first?
Few things make agents more excited than a “seriously motivated vendor”. In lay terms, that means a homeowner with a powerful reason to sell. There are few more powerful reasons than buying another home before selling your existing home.
Booming lies
The one thing always booming in real estate is the lies the industry tells the public. Aside from the daily false quotes given to sellers and buyers about the prices of properties, the most common lies are the auction clearance rates.
Don’t get “TIED” to a Real Estate Agent
Recently, a home-seller signed-up to sell her home with an agent. What happened next is what happens to thousands of sellers.
‘Auction clearance’ lies
Auction clearance rates are lies. Pumped-up statistics. It doesn’t matter who’s sprouting them, auction clearance rates are deliberately false. They are so far from true as to be laughable.
10 worst lies real estate agents tell home-sellers
The old joke: “How do you know when real estate agents are lying? Answer: When their lips are moving.” is not a joke, it’s real.
Home sellers – do not drop your price!
When home sellers get anxious about selling, the first thing they usually do – or, more correctly, the first thing agents suggest they do – is “drop the price”.