5.21.12 Monday News you can USE

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
- Jack Paar

What choices are you making with regards to what's going into your head? YCM

Have clients who went through foreclosure? Check this out!    The banks are sending out 4 million more letters to offer to pay restitution to those they made mistakes on - only 4.1% responded to the first mailing!  I wonder if they mailed it to the foreclosed property address :)

Hey - all you Canadian Real Estate agents - your clients are investing in the USA maybe you should refer some of them to fellow YCM agents!!

Time Magazine - Housing recovery has officially begun!

Interesting statistics in this Article - Bank of America offering up to $30,000 to complete a short sale!
Average Sales  Price Foreclosure: $150,000  Short Sales: $185,000 and then add in increased expenses with a foreclosure for taxes, maintenance fees, condition of the home, and attorneys fees and it's easy to see this makes dollars and sense! Wells Fargo and Chase are also contemplating doing more of this!

Got a neighborhood farm - look at this NextDoor.com cool site with some really useful features.

Are you ready for the Echo Boomers?

5.14.12 Monday News you can USE!

John Maxwell says - “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.”

How are you growing today?
What are you going to do today that makes you a little bit uncomfortable and will help you reach your goals?

Buyers - Mortgages at New Lows

Inventory Down 41% - And when that happens, what normally happens to prices?

10 Markets Poised for Double Digit Gains - Is one of them YOURS? BIGGEST NEWS TO SHARE!

Let us know which expert you think is right? Is now the best time to buy your first home?

How to fire a pushy agent - Some good nuggets and insight into a buyers mind.

Great Ideas are valuable How one Canadian traded a paperclip for a house!  Play Big & Better this week!  Love this quote:
The experience wasn’t about gaining a house. It was the power of “working together to make it happen” and being “open to adventure”.If I had not traded away that first paperclip, none of this would have happened”  It’s not really about paperclips, he says, but how you network with individuals and touch their lives.

From The Coaches at Your Coaching Matters
Kate Vail
Donna Fleetwood
Ilona Matteson
Donna Stott
Mike Stott

5.8.12 Monday News you can USE

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., author: P.S. I Love You

Buy Now! Homes won't be getting more affordable

Inventory Down in Many Cities

Mortgage Rates at Record Lows

100 Markets Improving

Anybody noticing a trend here?  Get your buyers to take action now!   Call Expireds from a year ago - Knock on a FSBO's door - the market is changing. Are you working it to your advantage?

4.30.12 Monday News You can USE

Had someone who told me today that FSBO's are a waste of time because she had been out to see three of them and none had listed... I was reminded of this great quote by Michael Jordan:

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

When do you quit?

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Numbers of Contracts Increasing

Are buyers confident yet?

Homes Prices may be bottoming out

Opportunity - Homeownership rates down to lowest levels in 15 years

Canadians - beware the greed factor!

For your Buyers 4 ways to get a great deal on a mortgage

Mike Stott

http://www.YourCoachingMatters.com
678-232-0927
Mike.Stott@mac.com