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I believe to be a successful real estate agent you need to be able to adapt to the market. When we saw the market swing we had the opportunities like most agents to capitalize on the short sale market and brandon foreclosure market. While we are happy we chose not to focus on the short sale market you really need to be a special kind of person to deal with these in my opinion, I nor my wife has the patience to deal with these.

We feel however we may have missed the boat on the foreclosure market. Although we have worked with mostly buyers since we have been in real estate jumping into the bank owned market could have been a great avenue to increase our business, most of recent sales with buyers have all been foreclosure homes and…

Ok this was a first. I actually had a internet salesperson hang up on me today, usually it is me hanging up on them. We received an email from this Sales Manager from epagelisting so my wife calls after I told her it probaly is a lead company trying to sell their leads but call just to make sure, she turns the phone over to me after a few minutes. He starts going on how they have qualified buyers in Brandon that they can guarantee 3-5 buyers and guarantees they are real qualified buyers, no lookie lous and such. For the low cost of $500 per month plus 15% of the commision. Now usually I hang up on them at this point but this time I let him rattle on.

I then ask the gentleman don't you think I could spend $500 per month of my hard earned dollars on google…

False short sale list prices. We are seeing more and more listings on the Tampa mls that are just not realistic and are fictious numbers that effect the entire real estate market. If you are working with a buyer who is not interested in short sales it gives the appearance that they can buy a home at a price that is a lot lower than a bank is going to approve. For instance there are two similar homes on the market one is a short sale with a list price of $150,000 and the exact same home listed at $190,000. Now the actual fair market value on the home is around $185,000. Well the buyer is looking at the exact two homes and say wow that short sale home is $40,000 less than the non short sale home it appears at first glance if you were to purchase the non…

We have been working with rentals since we have been in real estate and sales has always been our main focus and will continue to be, We are now  growing our team and venturing full force into property management and have the backing of Christopher T. O'Brien CPMS with KW Property Management Services. Chris has many years of property management experience and combined with our internet marketing we plan to build a great network and offer a great service to the Tampa, Brandon and Hillsborough communities.

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The saying you need to "list to last" is something I have always been told in real estate.Well if that saying still holds true then we are beating the odds. We have this year closed close to 90% buyers compared to listings and only carry a few listings at the moment and turn down listings that are not priced competative. We focus most of efforts into working with buyers and especially Tampa first time home buyers

Our office celebrates all the listings the agents have which is a great thing but in todays market unless you have a listing that is priced right it will not sell or if it is a short sale the odds of making it to close are against you. So I wonder if that catchy little phrase still holds water, do you really need to list to last in todays real…

Short sales are a joke in my opinion. I saw a stat that said about 20% of short sales ever come to fruition. I find it hard to believe that number is even right.The whole process is a joke the banks have buyers and sellers waiting in limbo on offers that will not be approved. They treat real estate agents like crap, the sellers like criminals. There is just homes sitting on the market that have no chance of selling. If you dont have the ability to handle the short sales then start the forclosure process and move on.

This is a real live situation I dealt with the.We had an offer of $375,000 and this was pretty much the buyers top number.The short sale negotiator told me the buyers need to be around $400,000 and their bottom line the bank needed to net…

I give my kudos to all the real estate agents going after the short sale business. Me myself I don't like to be burned and tortured slowly so you guys can have the short sales, why anyone would set out on purpose to target this market  is beyond my wildest dreams, but to each its own.We are fortunete we work with a lot of Tampa relocation buyers and they typically don't have the time to be fooling around with short sales.

Like there was not enough things to do as a Realtor. I decided to start a Real Estate forum geared to the Tampa Real Estate Market.With all the several different blogs to keep up with, different social networks, updating my websites, and last but not least showing and selling homes.I think we need to add more hours to the day. I am either stupid or crazy not sure which one probaly both but I guess I am glutton for punishment. But serious now I have been to many real estate forums including of course real estate webmasters which is one of the best around and thought it would be great to have a forum for real estate professionals in my market to exchange ideas, promote their listings, advertise their services and more.

I know it is difficult for agents to…