August 5th, 2007 Categories: Arlington, Keller Williams, Selling
I have been out of pocket the past week or so and decided I better get back in gear and get my blog updated.
What better way to do this than to announce that we finally have a new place to call home! Our new office address is 2101 Wilson Blvd Arlington VA 22201. My direct line is 703-242-6058. We are in temporary space on the 11th floor and expect, by the end of the year, to be in our offices on the first floor making it easier for customer to walk right in from the main street and metro just outside our front door.
Our new office is located within the heart of Arlington, Virginia. We have coffee shops, restaurants, residential condos, schools, shops and single family homes surrounding us. The facilities themselves are freshly painted, newer carpet, work out facilities and parking as well as great views, good size offices and a mega conference room for when we all get together to talk real estate.
I hope you will come by and visit- I look forward to helping you and yours with all your real estate needs.
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August 5th, 2007 Categories: Keller Williams, Reston
I am proud to announce O’Gradys Landscape has finally finished! While you have seen in a previous blog the back yard. Here’s what they’ve done for my front steps.
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After:
Call Terry O’Grady for all your landacaping needs (tell him Scott sent you): 703-533-8962…Need I say More!!!!
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August 5th, 2007 Categories: Arlington, Buying, Keller Williams
While I have enjoyed a week off from blogging and spent the week before that doing fluffy posts about my local landscaper and trips into Arlington, Virginia for dinner, now I think its time we get back on track and start talking about the game we love… Real Estate!
In doing just that I have set up a forum on the Meetup.com platform. I can thank my friends at Sellsius for the tip. Per their suggestion I went to www.meetup.com and I established my group, described my initial vision and linked it to my home page here at ActiveRain (check the name badge to your right). Tuesday night is our first face to face meeting and I can’t wait. I have had several people join, I have set up the location, I have advertised within my own office (somewhat- Im trying to keep it such that only new people are meeting) and the date is finally here. After all was said and one, 3 days before my event I received an email from the ‘Meet up’ team with tips on how the first meeting should go and in it also included gentle reminders on how I could manage the event.
My hope is that we get several different types of backgrounds all coming together to share their story and ideas so that we can all ensure our customers are provided the latest professional services we all strive to offer. Stay tuned for more on how the ’Meetup’ went. I will be sure to post it here. ActiveRain will undoubtedly be a topic of discussion.
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August 5th, 2007 Categories: Arlington, Buying, Keller Williams
I am really amazed at the high and lows real estate business has offered me the past few months. Just last week I was crying the blues to my favorite colleague that this market is really hard to manage and how one day I have a buyer and the next day I may not. It’s quite an interesting buyers market. Ironically however I did something today that one might think would usually happen only in a sellers market…….
This past Saturday I had a very interesting scenario occur. I was out shopping for houses with my buyer. We had a tour of 4 homes and a potential rental unit that they may want since they need to get out of their house soon and wont rush into buying something they don’t like. (My kind of customer- they know what they want and will accommodate their situation rather than force a purchase that won’t make them happy- Keep everyone whole!) At any rate we went shopping for quite some time and turned over a lot of houses-While each house was quite impressive in its own right, throughout the day I had been starting to sense that none of these houses were even close to what these buyers had in mind. I was starting to wonder what we were doing. Rather than turn on a sales pitch on one of these properties I decided to quiz my customer on what’s going on in their head. After a few minutes I find out there was a specific house they had in mind and sadly there was no for sale sign in the front yard. They are pretty sure they’d want that house but again, no for sale sign. They were looking elsewhere out of necessity but clearly they had their mind on this one specific house. Heres actually where I turned on the sales pitch….
We jumped in the car and went right over the their dream place. I went right up to the front door and knocked. The buyers answered I explained the situation. We were all actually invited in for a tour of the place. It was quite impressive. In addition the owner is actually considering selling it in the next 6-12 months. My buyers while closing on their current residence in two weeks could actually rent a place for a year and start negotiations on this property before the current owners even think about listing it (with me 
)…
Its not often you get lucky like this and while the deal isn’t settled it’s this kind of excitement that keeps me coming back for more. My buyers could end up in their desired home (because of course as we walked through they fell in love with the place) the current owners could sell it without having to list it and I have dual agency agreement on both side and could get a larger slice of the pie while providing both clients top notch service and a potential discount (but only if they ask 
)
Hopefully this week coming will have as much energy!
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August 5th, 2007 Categories: Keller Williams
This past Saturday while I was making history for the week (see my blog below) I had something funny (not really) happen that I wanted to share…
My tour started at 10AM sharp, I followed my buyers to a place they had preveiwed online and now we were going in to see it. I clicked open the lock box- opened the front door, Ladies first, husband second and agent last. I escorted my buyers through the property- telling them what I knew about the place, neighborhood and city and offered to follow up with the listing agent on anything we couldn’t figure out. We went room for room.
Just about halfway through the tour another agent marches up the front step. She had parked us in and had her buyers in tow as she plowed forward. She rushed through the front door, took her lollipop out of her mouth, and exclaimed she had parked us in and how much longer would we be. As my jaw hit the floor I politely offered we would be another 10 minutes or so and went on with out tour. My clients gave me a look and I realized at that point this tour was over regardless of the 10 minutes because of this other agents distracting,UNPROFESSIONAL behavior.
As we approached the end of our tour (walk through at this point) I realized the agent had moved her cars creating less of a reason to talk with her as we left however I noticed she was standing at the front door while her clients were in the back of the house inspecting the patio- She was to busy knawing at her lollipop to offer them any assistance.
While I’m not in their relationship and I don’t know the arrangement they have my negative perception of what was going on is probably more true than I’d care to have confirmed. I can’t help but wonder how a client could work with an agent that clearly was not doing anything productive during their time together and how could a potential buyer take someone sucking on a lollipop at all serious when thinking of buying what most would consider their largest purchse/investment of their lives.
I’m posting this to share how poor manners and unprofessional behavior can create a bad perception for yourself and the industry. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give yourself and this industry your best foot forward. If not for your clients atleast for the sake of other agents trying to do right by their customers.
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We will never do this to your listing….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSWccfdO3Y
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703-283-4524
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