The Importance of Licensed Real Estate Agents

Today, more and more people would prefer to make payments for their own property than having to pay for rent. They also see this as an investment which is right because it earns them great financial benefits too. This is why the real estate business is now considered a great business type to enter in. Some individuals can even claim that they are a real estate agent in eastside wa but how do you know that they are to be trusted? How do you know that they are certified to do the job and with good quality?

Real estate agents who are licensed are 100% certified to do the job of making sales, examining acquisition, managing rentals or leases. It is a huge plus if the real estate agent that you’re hiring has good working experience especially in terms of trading involving real estate. They also act as effective mediators thru the utilization of gained knowledge about real estate properties dealt with. They are also well versed with the legalities involved on everything about real estate especially about transactions. They are very much qualified to make correspondence especially about some questions regarding real estate  which include property overheads, real estate market assessments  and the trading intention. They are equipped with good communication skills as well as adequate or even impressive knowledge about the standard property sizes, legal limitations, the common repair costs, and property reconstruction. One way to easily get a trusted listing of real estate agents is to check on the yellow pages, on the internet or on local real estate firms. You can also do the word of mouth technique to know the best real estate agent in town. You can ask for recommendations from your friends and family or even some acquaintances.

One thing you should remember when hiring a real estate agent is to make good verifications on the agent’s credibility, success rate and the standard fees charged by a licensed and professional real estate agent. It is advised to make accurate comparisons between the real estate agents of your choosing. This would help you locate the best real estate agent with a good deal and is worth the investment that you’ll be making especially when you are looking for the best real estate agent in eastside wa.

Preparing Your Home for Sale in Eastside WA

When you’re still preparing for home selling, easily getting carried away with the excitement of a successful transaction as well as the benefits it brings sometimes really do happen, but dont get caught up with the tide, know the right moves in preparation for successful homes for sale eastside wa.

It is certainly wise to be really wary of the things that you can make changes in and the things that you cannot change in your home such as the location. We all know that once the construction is done in that specific location, there would be no turning back. even if you no longer like the location, there’s nothing you can do about it. But you can make definite changes on the size of your home as well as its style. Both changeable aspects will of course require money and may even cost a lot but you have to make the right judgement and balancing out to make the important changes. In other words, you are making the right investment to make great renovations and improvements for your home. This would bring even greater advantages such as increasing the home value especially when you’re planning to sell your home in the future. One thing that is also unchangeable is the proximity of the home to different services such as shops, hospitals, centers, church and etc. This is one very important thing with the real estate business since homebuyers would love to have the advantage of having the needed places within reach. But you can't control the quality of the places such as the nearby school for example. You can't change their standards neither can you change the neighborhood that the house is in. Now lets go further on preparing your home for a sale.

There are actually a lot of ways you can do without having to spend so much money to make changes and gain the wonderful achievement of a house sale that is worth it. You can enhance on both the exterior and interior of the home that you have by cleaning up and then doing repainting to freshen up the look. Another thing that you should consider is to ensure that the pricing of the home is according to the parameters or the standards set by the neighborhood in which it belongs. If by chance you are selling homes for sale eastside wa then you should find the right agent to get you appropriate analyses from the market.

The Safety Talk You Need to Have With Clients

September 2014 | By Melissa Dittmann Tracey

 

Keep all parties safe in a transaction by offering buyers and sellers these important tips

 

Have you had the safety talk with your clients yet? It’s not only for their safety but for yours too.

It’s a conversation far too many real estate professionals omit from their discussions with home sellers and buyers. September is REALTOR® Safety Month, and most real estate safety information mostly centers on how to keep you safe when meeting new clients during showings or at open houses. But safety from your clients’ perspective presents an entirely new set of issues.

“When you go to listing appointments, do a security survey with your clients,” suggests safety specialist Tracey Hawkins, founder of Safety and Security Source and a former real estate professional. “Discuss with them how to make their home burglarproof when it’s on the market and how to keep their belongings safe. No other real estate agent is talking about that. This can be a way to distinguish yourself in a listing presentation. They may have already met with four or five other agents, but when you provide them with something different — a handout for a seller safety plan — you help set yourself apart.”

Hawkins provides a checklist for agents to use as they walk through homes with sellers, looking for items to tuck away during showings like those prescription medications and gaming systems and checking the adequacy of the home’s lighting and door locks. She also says safety is an important conversation to have with home buyers prior to viewing homes for sale, particularly vacant homes like distressed properties where squatters could be present or maintenance issues may pose added dangers.

Read the entire article at: http://realtormag.realtor.org/sales-and-marketing/feature/article/2014/09/safety-talk-you-need-have-clients

Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich is Full of Timeless Lessons

01/27/2015 by Joe Tesla Kennedy

 

“Thoughts are things” is the title and the first words of the first chapter of the book.

When I first read those words, I didn’t really understand what they meant – even when I read the first chapter and the examples offered in Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich. It didn’t resonate until I got to the end of the chapter and read, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive, and believe, it can achieve.” Then I started to get it. That was 1972.

By coincidence, it was only a few days later that I heard the late, great Earl Nightingale say, “You become what you think about.” At that moment, I got it. It clicked. And it has clicked ever since then.

More reading and studying about thinking and the thought process revealed that neither Hill nor Nightingale had the original thought.

From Socrates to Samuel Smiles, to Orison Swett Marden, to Elbert Hubbard, to Dale Carnegie, to Napoleon Hill, to Earl Nightingale, to Jim Rohn – they all had their own way of saying THE SAME thing.

Read the entire article at: http://bellevuebusinessjournal.com/2015/01/27/napoleon-hills-think-and-grow-rich-is-full-of-timeless-lessons/

Get inside your clients' heads: 3 psychological lessons for real estate

Kevin Hopp - Contributor

Jan 27, 2015

 

Understanding likeness, trust and loss aversion as they relate to buyers and sellers

 

The practical psychology of real estate has always been to realize that you are selling your client’s dream, not their property. Real estate is not a product like any other, and it is a classic agent mistake to try to turn it into one. Being conscious of how real estate connects people is critical to understanding what would motivate someone to buy or list a house through you.

The way clients search for real estate has gone digital, and more recently, it has gone mobile in a big way. Real estate technology is more prominent than ever before, and companies all across America are trying to “hack” the home buying process. You can spend hundreds and thousands of dollars attempting to set yourself apart with technology. It’s impossible to deny that investing in technology will grow your real estate business in 2015, but never forget that in the end, real estate is about sales, and sales is about people. Here are a basic few tenants of psychology that you can leverage to set yourself apart as an agent.

Read the entire article at: http://www.inman.com/next/get-inside-your-clients-heads-3-psychological-lessons-for-real-estate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheFutureOfRealEstateMarketing+%28The+Future+of+Real+Estate+Marketing%29