How to Choose an Agent
When you are thinking about selling, you are the most wanted person in real estate. Every agent wants to be the chosen agent who ‘lists’ your home.
Neil Jenman
About Neil Jenman
Posts by Neil Jenman:
Why You Should Consider Selling Your House Without A Real Estate Agent
Would we be better off selling our homes privately, or should we be going into the real estate game?
Rent to Buy Schemes are Dangerous Scams
Home ownership, that great Australian Dream, is harder than ever before. Across the nation, tens of thousands of families are locked-out of homes they can never afford to buy.
Murder for Sale
Overseas, they are called ‘Stigma Homes’, where something terrible has happened in the past, usually a murder. Stigma homes – or ‘Murder Homes’ as they seem to be called in Australia – can be hard to sell – as at least one irate home-owner in Melbourne is discovering.
How Auctions Kill the Highest Price
What you are about to read contains information that should be read by every homeseller contemplating selling by the public auction method. It contains simple and logical mathematical proof that selling by public auction is, by far, the worst way to sell a family home.
The Lying Game
Anyone who gets involved in the property market – whether as a seller, a buyer, (and even an agent), has probably wondered why so many people tell so many lies.
What is the Jenman symbol?
It is an ancient Moorish symbol which is supposed to bring good luck and ward off the evil eye. In about 1880, Robert Ormond Maugham (one of the founders of the British Law Society), brought it back from a trip to Africa.
Ethics in Investing
“Anyone who says money doesn’t cause happiness is either a liar or a loser,” yelled the guru. His audience laughed as one. It was ten minutes since he bounded onto the stage, but the guru already had them seduced.
Ethics in Real Estate
In 1943, a 69 year old writer, W Somerset Maugham, published an essay on Virtue. He said most people accept the importance of the virtues of integrity and self-sacrifice, but this is not enough to weigh against the powerful motives of self-interest.
Ethical Concerns for Australian and New Zealand Real Estate
Real estate consumers are losing millions of dollars due to the lack of ethics in real estate. It is a national disgrace in both Australia & New Zealand. And it is time it stopped.
