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Is It Time For a Multiple Buyer Listing Service?
Is it time for an MLS database of active buyers? I ponder this on the heels of difficulties in locating quality resale homes amidst the bank owned rubble of today's market. We have long been beholden to the seller in the Real Estate hierarchy as a home listing sets...
The Accidental Landlord: A Crash Course to Leasing Your Scottsdale Home
I get it. I really do. You need to lease your Scottsdale home in the worst possible way. Be it job trouble, an exotic mortgage that is done playing nice or any number of other financial ghoulies that have hitchhiked this recession, you need to get away from that house...
Hire Me, I Spent 50K to Dominate Irrelevant Keyword Searches!
"List with me because I dominate page 1 of Google for Scottsdale Real Estate, as well as Neighborhoods X, Y and Z!" A familiar refrain. Firmly entrenched in the Internet Age of Real Estate marketing, it would be reasonable for a consumer to expect his chosen agent to...
No, That Is Not My Listing. Yes, You’ve Come to the Right Place.
A disconnect that will sometimes occur when a Scottsdale Real Estate consumer lands here on the Scottsdale Property Shop site, not all of the properties you see listed for sale here fly under the banner of Realty Executives. Matter of fact, of the forty some thousand...
Selling a Home in Scottsdale? Keep the Agent Bonus in Your Shorts.
Thanks, but no thanks. Therein lie my in-depth feelings regarding buyer agent bonus compensation. It's a tricky business, this whole trust-building endeavor. From the initial consultation with a prospective client, to the signing of the closing documents and all...
Why Aren’t Agents Showing My Scottsdale Rental Property?
Wonder why your lonely Scottsdale rental property is suffering from a lack of showings? Because your agent is offering the sales force a half-eaten ham sandwich as compensation, that's why. In an open, competitive market, I hope it goes without saying that all...
The Realty Executives Re-Launch: A Shot Across the Bow of Scottsdale Real Estate Brokerages
Ordinarily, we here at the Scottsdale Property Shop are not overly concerned with the machinations at play within our brokerage. Perhaps an odd disconnect given that Realty Executives has dominated the top spot in market share for virtually every measurable category...
What’s Mean and Grey and Stupid All Over?
There are dragons lurking in the dark recesses of your property listing. Mean dragons. Scaly, grey, mean dragons that might rise up out of their lairs and go all Godzilla on your potential showings if left unchecked. And what, pray tell, is the name of these...
The McCormick Ranch Subdivision Series: Casas Dia Festivo
Casas Dia Festivo is a patio home subdivision located at the SW corner of Hayden and Mountain View Road in McCormick Ranch of Scottsdale, AZ. Similar in size and character to the Santa Fe patio home community in the Southern portion of the Ranch, Casas Dia Festivo...
You Want to Preview My Home? Buzz off, Ebert.
I have seen my share of thumbs down houses over the years. It’s a sad truth, but for every summer blockbuster, there is a Real Estate Gigli. Properties that look so promising in the MLS trailer fall flat despite the star-studded cast. Granite counter tops,...