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The Money In ‘Mystery Shopping’
Sometimes you can feel you are being cheated. But you can’t figure out why or how.
It’s just a feeling. But feelings are powerful, and we should listen to
Lazy Agents Mean Low Prices
Your house is listed and nothing’s happening. You call the agent to get a voice-mail, so you leave a message. Next day the agent tells you, drop your price
Pandemic Property Prices
How things have changed. Both the world and our lives. And how quickly. It’s July 2020. Think back a year. Whatever was worrying you then, surely seems trivial
Help For 2020 Home Buyers
The 2020 real estate world is not kind to home buyers. Gone are the days when buyers – be they family home buyers or investors –
How Sellers Can Earn At Least $80,000 In 6.5 Hours
Years ago, we fell victim to a simple scam. A fake email was sent to our accounts department asking for an invoice to be paid.
How To Save Your Home
The word ‘mortgage’ is French in origin. It means “an agreement until death”. In January 2020, the number of Australians suffering
Drop Your Agent, Not Your Price!
The easiest way to sell any property is to drop its price
In most cases, however, owners should drop their agent not their price.
How Ads Kill Sales
There are 195 countries in the world. Yet Australia and New Zealand are the only countries where agents expect home sellers to pay for advertising costs.
The Coronavirus Excuse
Aside from the pandemic, I believe something else is hurting home sellers today. I’d like to tell you about it.
Home sellers, you are being told that prices are crashing, and the property market is falling off a cliff –
Home Sellers Must Shop Around
With prices at an all-time high and the market showing signs of being at its peak, it’s a good time to sell property.
Falling Dominoes In Off-The-Plan Property
It’s one of the oldest tricks in real estate – distort the sales results to make auctions look good.
Agents Say “All Buyers Are Liars”
How to get the truth and the best price by Neil Jenman This happens all the time in real estate… Buyers make an offer on a home. They tell the agent they “won’t pay any more”. The agent contacts the sellers and urges them to accept the offer. The agent may say: “If you don’t […]
Control Your Fear Of Agents
In February, Lana and Ian, a retired couple, decided to sell their home. An agent said auction would get the best price. Only dishonest or incompetent agent
Money Can’t Buy You Love
A common mistake of agents – and the reason they often fail to get the best price for a home – is this: They focus too much on price.
Selling Without An Agent
For Sale By Owner troubles show how hard it is in Australia to compete against real estate agents. Despite the emergence of several private
Cancel the auction!
It all looks so good in the beginning. The agent loves your home and is confident it can be sold for a huge price. Just like the one up the street where the owners got three hundred thousand dollars above their reserve price.
Sellers lose heavily at weekend auctions
Home sellers lost millions of dollars in last weekend’s auctions. Most never realised it. On the contrary, many sellers thought they got a great result because their homes sold above their lowest price – known as the “reserve”.
25 facts about real estate advertising
If home sellers knew the truth about advertising, if they knew what went on behind-the-scenes, they’d realise they are part of what can best be described as a billion-dollar scam.
17 Rules for Investing in Real Estate
by Neil Jenman The biggest mistake in real estate is failing to do enough research. Look for yourself: Every month, thousands of homes up for public auction and almost all short-sold, often by tens of thousands of dollars. And why? Failure to do adequate research. No, in most cases, make that “ANY research”. What about […]
How to Beat the ‘Ad Scam’
HOME SELLERS BEWARE: One result is 100 per cent guaranteed with many agents. You lose. No matter what happens, whether your home sells or not, whether you get a good price, a bad price or no price, the agent wins and you lose – big time.
Neil Jenman and Failure
For years, I have said three words to real estate consumers – “DON’T SIGN ANYTHING!”
This Man is an Agent… But We Can’t Show you His Face
Years ago, when I worked in my real estate office, another agent came to see me. He seemed nervous. I took him into my office and closed the door. Almost in a whisper, he said: “I need to sell my house.”
The ‘Kicker’ Scam
Like all scams, this one can appear perfectly reasonable – at first. Especially if suggested by a smooth-talking agent or, sadly, media commentators who haven’t done their research.
Selling Your Investment Property? Don’t Evict the Tenants!
The main goal of most agents is to make sales, not look after home-sellers. Oh sure, agents say they put their clients’ interests first. But the evidence suggests otherwise.
Should I Auction My Home? – A Dead Duck in 2 Minutes
Discover Why Auctions are a Dead Duck – In Two Minutes! Answer the question “Should I auction my home?” and earn yourself thousands of EXTRA dollars!! How long does it take you to save thousands? Discover how you can in two minutes!
How to “Nab” a Bargain at Auctions
Contrary to mythology, auctions are never the best way for homeowners to sell. But they are often the best way for homebuyers to, well, I’ll say it again, “nab a bargain”.
How Much Commission Should You Pay an Agent?
There are several important points home sellers should know before choosing an agent based on their rate of commission.
Warning to Income Seeking Investors
The saddest stories I see are retirees who lose their savings – sometimes their homes. Lured by above average returns, unsuspecting folk sink too much money into companies that sink.
7 Ways to Get a High Price – In any Market!
The cheaper you price your home the easier it is to sell. And, the easier your home is to sell, the quicker your agent gets paid.
Bait Prices Help Agents – Not You!
Last weekend a home was being auctioned. Like most auctions, the buyers had been lured along with bait pricing.
