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Expiration dates are easy to lose when an agent carries a dozen listings and one inbox. The date lives in two places, the listing agreement and the MLS record, and the two have to match. …
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One extra zero in a list price is easy to miss at nine at night and impossible to miss once the listing is public. That is the usual life of an MLS data entry error: …
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Before your assistant gets an MLS login, somebody has to read the rules that come with it. Those rules differ from one MLS to the next, and so do the fines. The categories below are …
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A purchase contract can hold a dozen dates, and every one of them has an owner: the buyer, the seller, the lender, the title company or an agent. Miss one and the result can run …
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When you've run every closing on your own, handing the calendar to someone else is hard. Yet, at a certain point, a coordinator becomes a necessity, and the first job is deciding what that person …
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Everyone celebrates the accepted offer, and then the file starts filling with dates. A lender wants documents, an inspector wants access, a title company wants a name spelled correctly and the closing date does not …
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Leads pile up in an inbox faster than anyone can sort them. Some are ready to see homes this week and some are browsing, and from the subject line alone they look the same. A …
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You can hand a call list to an assistant in ten minutes, and the legal homework behind it takes longer. The FCC defines a telephone solicitation as a call or message meant to encourage the …
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The sign-in sheet from Sunday is still on the clipboard on Tuesday. By then the visitors have toured other homes, and a follow-up message has to compete with all of them. A remote assistant cannot …
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Say a listing goes live on Friday with the signed agreement still in the agent's inbox, the square footage copied from an old listing and a flyer that says who the home is perfect for. …
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A listing appointment can be hugely rewarding. You get to meet an owner at a big moment and lay out a plan for the sale. But that's not to say that preparing for one is …
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While the MLS (multiple listing service) makes comparable sales, or comps, easy to find, the usual grumble among agents is that a comparative market analysis (CMA) turns an agent into a data clerk, pulling sold …
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