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Beat “mortgage stress” and keep your home.by Neil JenmanReading time: Apx 7 minsSelling a family home is one of the most stressful events in life. The stress compounds if the reason for selling is another stressful event.Such as financial stress.After nine straight rate increases, thousands of home-owners are in financial stress. Or “mortgage stress” as […]

by Neil JenmanReading Time: 5.5 mins apx If you’re selling your home, the first thing you’ll likely hear right now is that “the market is bad”. Or that “prices have dropped”.And who will give you that sad and bad news?Probably a real estate agent, that’s who.Now, before you cave-in and accept a lower price for your […]

by Neil JenmanReading time: Apx 3.5 minsA few years ago, I got the best compliment of my life. My wife said that I never let her down.I beamed with pride. I thought of Emerson’s words about success being: “winning the respect of intelligent people and appreciation of honest critics.”I never want to let anyone down […]

What sellers and buyers seldom know.by Neil JenmanReading Time: 3.5 mins apxIf home sellers and buyers were better informed about real estate, they’d get a much better result when they sell or buy real estate. There are so many ‘secrets’ in the real estate world – information that’s deliberately hidden from consumers or information they […]

You can do so much better than a typical agent.by Neil JenmanReading time: Apx 8 minsATTENTION HOME-OWNERS.Australian home-sellers are the most bluffed in the world. The real estate industry has done a massive con job – convincing you, the home-owners, that, when you sell your home, you need a real estate agent.That’s not true. Not […]

THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS,FOR DOING LITTLE OR NOTHING!by Neil JenmanReading time: 3 mins apxImagine this for a job. It’s in the real estate industry.On average it pays $5,000 an hour. You see, you only spend five hours – that’s the time, as an agent, that you’ll spend “working” to arrange a buyer for an average home.Today, […]

Explaining three vital words for property consumersby Neil JenmanReading Time: 5 minutesFor more than 20 years, I have hammered the same message to home sellers and home buyers: DON’T SIGN ANYTHING! I have repeated it millions of times. I have printed all sorts of paraphernalia emblazoned with the “DON’T SIGN ANYTHING!” message.From fridge magnets to […]

HOW TO INSTIL COMPETENCY IN YOUR AGENTby Neil JenmanReading Time: Apx 3 minsImagine the following scenario: You list your home for sale. You know it’s worth around $1.5 million. But you’re hoping for more.A few hours after you sign-up, the agent brings some prospective buyers. As they view your home, you hear them gasping in […]

by Neil JenmanReading Time: Apx 8.5 minsWhen you sell a property in Australia, most agents expect you to pay advertising costs. Usually, this amounts to thousands of dollars. That’s in addition to thousands of dollars in commission when you sell.Or as happens in many cases, if you sell.Many home-owners get so cheesed-off with the selling […]

Real estate agents to avoid.by Neil JenmanReading Time: Apx 4 minsThis is not easy to say, but it needs to be said:Many times, agents who call themselves ‘NUMBER ONE’ are the biggest crooks in their area.By “crook” I mean dishonest. I mean misleading conduct.These dishonest agents catch a lot of honest home sellers. They also […]