Real Estate Marketing & Investing
Home Designs of the South: The Best Selling Plans For Dream Homes with a Southern Flair will show you how to build an elegant home with all of the detail and charm of gracious living!
This book contains over 300 home plans-including 75 brand-new designs-feature wrap-around porches, sweeping staircases, and more. The homes are created by some of the nation’s top architects and designers and meet recognized North American building codes.
A majority of potential home buyers use the net to find homes. As an agent, if you do not have an effective real estate website to promote yourself, you are missing out on valuable leads.
Think about it, print advertising can be very expensive, and direct mailings are time consuming in addition to the cost.
However, once you set up your website, it will be working for you each and every day, getting you business. Many potential customers will start with a search on their favorite search engine. .
Email is a great resource for Realtors too. It keeps you in contact with many clients, and helps them stay informed regarding new listings. There are many programs that allow you to set up automatic email responses. This means that clients can fill out a quick form detailing what they are looking for in a property, and emails will be sent out to them every time a new property meets their criteria. It saves them search time, and they feel they’re receiving quality service. This also helps you build a database of email addresses for you to send marketing materials to.
With just a little time to set up, your website will bring you business all day, every day!
How to Succeed in Commercial Real Estate is a comprehensive, practical book for investors interested in commercial real estate. It is written for anybody – those just beginning in the business, as well as experienced brokers and sales managers .
The author shares a wealth of other practical knowledge reaped from 30 years in the business. You will get a straightforward overview of the business of selling commercial property. It also covers the four main specialty areas -retail, office, industrial, and investment—as well as crossovers and emerging specialties.
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This is a terrific book for any broker and a “must read” for any rookie broker Read More
In Foreclosure Myths: 77 Secrets to Saving Thousands on Distressed Properties, Realtor Ralph Roberts and Certified Mortgage Consultant Chip Cummings expose the 77 myths that prevent would-be homeowners and real estate investors from pursuing from foreclosure investing.
You will learn how to distinguish the difference between good and bad deals. You will also learn how it is to find, evaluate, and obtain foreclosure properties, and unveil the power of using other people’s money to leverage your own personal investments.
Foreclosure Myths: 77 Secrets to Saving Thousands on Distressed Properties includes quotes and stories from many of the nation’s top industry professionals, with contributions from real estate investors, attorneys, real estate agents, industry insiders, and top foreclosure experts from across the country. The book also incorporates a healthy Appendix packed with state and national foreclosure guidelines, including valuable contracts and websites, sample forms, checklists, and all the necessary tools you need to find, evaluate, secure, and profit from foreclosure properties.
Every once in a while, a real estate agent will email me with some form of this question: “Do real estate postcards still work?” Because they use the word “still,” I have to assume they feel real estate postcard marketing was more effective in the past than it is today. I usually respond in a way that is cryptic at first but makes sense eventually.
I tell them that bad real estate postcards don’t work today, and they didn’t work ten years ago. But good real estate postcards work as well today as they always have. You see, the medium itself hasn’t become any less effective over the years … just the people behind the medium. Many real estate agents have not adjusted their postcard marketing approach to keep up with the times. Trust me on this one — I worked in the real estate postcard industry. [Read more...]