The Environment and Social Responsibility

Social and environmental responsibility is a buzz topic these days, something we are all exposed to through marketing here in North America.  You can't help but see green coloured packaging, advertisements and communications everywhere.  What I have not seen to date is a community, village, town, city or otherwise, that has stepped up and commited to only building homes that conform to a respectable environmental standard.  Because whats good for the environment is good for the social setting.

What is Your Community Like?

Here is where you all come in - I would love to hear feedback about programs like this in your neck of the woods.  Heck, I hope we have some comments that open my eyes to communities that have…

Networking is one of the fundamentals in life, nevermind real estate.  Families are networks, school is a network and a career is a network.  The trick is finding the interconnections between systems or processes - and simplifying the associated complexity.

One essential networking basic that was shared with me lately: being sincere.  This is something I took for granted and never really consciously acknowleged.  (Note: I am not a social butterfly, nor do I focus on networking much of the time... this is one of my weak points I am working to improve).  Strong networking is sustainable, like search engine optimization (SEO) practices.  You don't want to build a house on a poor foundation, only to have it crumble and need excess attention in the… Read Full Post

What is important.  Three words that most of us would wrestle with for a few seconds before instinctively answering.  Then a minute or two later after some reflection we may add to the initial response or even modify it.  I would guess that after a solid 10 minutes most of us would be satisfied with out response, and only one thing would be certain: the collection of responses would be hugely diverse.

So what is important within the context of the Real Estate industry? Based on a combination of personal experience and time spent within the REW Community Forum apparently a lot of things.  Technology.  Foreclosures.  Marketing.  Conversion.  Content.  Search engine rankings.  Response time.  Doing enough.  Doing too much.  Not doing enough.  Contracts. …