Showing posts with label panic in the markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label panic in the markets. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2009

Three main reasons not to use an agent

We all better know that the real estate market has seen better days. As the economy becomes more and more tight and families continue to cut back we are seeing a large increase in the FSBO market. it's important that FSBO home sellers take advantage of the different marketing methods available to them.What I have found is that many people choose not to use an agent for three main reasons.
1) Many people in the FSBO market have been wronged by an agent. They have had a bad experience with their agent. In many cases the agent did not follow through with their promises during the listing presentation. Many FSBO's say that their agent simply did not communicate what was going on with the home while listed.
2) most of the FSBO's do not trust agents. This is typically a case in which an agent lied to the owner about showings, marketing activities, or some other factor.
3)During this tough economic times consumers are finding hard to pay a real estate agents the thousands of dollars in commission to sell the home, especially if number 1 and 2 above are true.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

We have been told not to tense or worry.

The uncertainty and panic in the markets were bad enough, but the big worry was what was going to happen next? What we all going to do in future? Many of us feel that economics is very big topic to wrap our minds around. The financial system is really “TOO BIG” as well as too complicated to understand . We have been told not to tense or worry. Americans are willing to put pencil to paper to figure out if it makes economic sense for a spouse to work or stay home with the kids, but few of us pay enough attention to the economy at the aggregate level and as Americans, we need to be more and do more.
There is so much going on in the financial markets right now. There are a million people giving a million different opinions on things. The pundits and government officials assure us that the economy is going to well soon. But is that really true? I don’t think so. You know I’ve been feeling nervous all this week. I’m normally not the nervous type of guy .It’s hard to be up all the time but you know the bad economy and it was clear to me that if I was nervous, I can make everyone nervous, and so it wasn’t worth the effort. I’m still not sure how all of this is going to turn out, but I’m going to try my best to relax and take it as it comes. Although there are so many issues that effected things in different ways.
People often try to check on which market could be the best, especially when you are trying to have that move into your new business, it is imminent that you have a closer look at any market.