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Reduce Real Estate Lies

Home sellers don’t come more vulnerable than Marion and Michael. This trusting retired couple are no match for the ruthless agents in Sydney's east.
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How to handle agents

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…
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How to handle agents

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…
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Where your ad money goes

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”.
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Where your ad money goes

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…
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Protect or rescue

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…
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Sell first or buy first

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…
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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…
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