Archive for San Antonio Board Of Realtors
Discrimination and Fair Housing Laws
Equal Opportunity Housing Karen Fiddler, a Mission Veijo real estate agent, recently wrote on her ActiveRain blog about an experience with a client that wound up forcing her to make a decision to drop the client based on discrimination and fair housing laws. Typically, when you hear the words discrimination or fair housing laws it [...]
San Antonio Real Estate Needs Your Help.
You can help change San Antonio. I have a bit of a headache. I’m tired. I’m a little more than frustrated. San Antonio real estate is in serious danger. If you’ve been reading this blog regularly, you may have noticed recently that there have been quite a few articles about listings and the San Antonio [...]
San Antonio MLS – What is it?
The San Antonio MLS Read any real estate blog and you’ll quickly learn that Realtors® love acronyms and abbreviations. One you’ll hear more often than not? MLS. Short for multiple listing service, it’s what agents use to help you find a home in San Antonio (or wherever you may live). Simply put, it’s a giant [...]
San Antonio MLS announces upgrade – more home photos.
Sixteen was ok, but twenty five is great news. The San Antonio MLS (Multiple Listing Service) has just announced it’s latest upgrade and with it comes a feature that I couldn’t be happier about. More photos! Previously, when listing your home, agents were allowed up to sixteen photos to best showcase your home for sale. [...]
Short Sale Disclosure In San Antonio
Shhhh… Don’t Tell The Neighbors. Today, in an email from Trulia, I noticed an interesting question about short sales and disclosure. Real estate agent Cathy Cataletto of Staten Island posed several questions to agents across the nation regarding short sales and how we (and if we) are to disclose them (real estate laws vary widely [...]
Quoted In The North Bay Business Journal
Social Media And Real Estate Agents. Yesterday morning, I received a link to an article in the North Bay Business Journal from a few friend of mine on Twitter. I had spoken to the author of the post, Jenna V. Loceff, last week as she asked me about my thought as a real estate agent [...]
Real Estate Bloggers And Journalists – Are We All That Different?
How does what we post on real estate blogs affect your views? This video requires the Abobe Flash Player to be viewed, click the image below to download and install the plugin for your system. This video is a discussion of the problems of real estate blogging as [...]
Are Realtors® Too Positive About The Market? Or Are They Not Doing Enough?
Thoughts on how we deal with the question, “Is now a good time to buy?” In some ways, it might seem like career suicide to dare suggest that we as Realtors® might sometimes be too “sunshine and roses” when it comes to talking about the market, but the fact is, I often wonder how to [...]
