http://havenrealtors.com/blog Real Estate On Your Terms - And Mine, Too Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:45:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello and welcome everybody! Well, right now “everybody” means only a few curious ones: me, myself and I. I am very excited about starting this blog. First of all, because I finally can do it. More seriously, I think that there are things to be discussed about real estate business, how it’s practiced ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2007/05/31/real-estate-on-your-terms-and-mine-too/ Lately, we've been bombarded by "comments" from somebody desperately trying to promote a new - created just last September - website for FSBOs. To promote, we must say, in a very dumb way by submitting that "buy-sell FSBO" gibberish as a comment to our blog. Well, we decided to look - ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2007/02/25/selling-fsbo-heres-help-from-russia/ We are on the verge of offering an exciting new tool for Haven customers.  As a matter of fact, we will let anyone who is selling their home on their own use our slide show service, even if their home is not listed through us on the MLS.  Basically, we ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2007/01/22/a-new-tool-for-haven-clients/ At Haven Realtors, you are the Quarterback and we are your team.  We let you call the shots and we are there to help you score a touch down with a bit of assistance.   Don't ask us to go much further with the football analogy, because our specialty is real ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2007/01/22/about-haven-realtors/ I just got a very angry email from a customer whose property I listed on the MLS last Wednesday as "MLS Entry Only". And I got angry myself. Not with her although she needs to read stuff more attentively in order to not get confused later. I got angry with ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2007/01/12/when-agents-deceive-people/ OK, everybody realizes now that the market is tough, competition is fierce and the bottom lines get hurt. So, what would you, as a seller, look to do? Cutting your costs, right? Wrong. Why do sellers pay hundreds of dollars to advertise on websites like ForSaleByOwner.com? Exactly: because they don't ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2006/12/07/builders-how-may-we-rip-er-help-you/  If you are going “For Sale By Owner”, there is a good chance you don’t want to list your home because you don’t want to pay a 5%-6% commission to a broker. Of course, there is always a small percentage of the homeowners who do everything themselves. And, truth be ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2006/12/05/to-list-or-not-to-list-is-that-really-a-question/ Last Sunday, I conducted an improvised poll by calling people who sell "By Owner" just to see how quickly sellers respond. I have made 20 calls and in 14 cases nobody was there to pick up the phone. If I were a buyer or a buyers agent, 70% of the ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2006/11/28/selling-then-pick-up-the-phone/ Metro Detroit now leads the nation in the number of foreclosures, according to some estimates. If you are a homeseller this should be alarming for you because it means that soon hundreds and hundreds of new properties - owned by banks - will be put on the market. Many of them ... http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2006/11/25/michigan-real-estate-market-seller-beware/ Happy Thanksgiving to everybody from HAVEN! :) http://havenrealtors.com/blog/2006/11/23/giving-thanks/