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First week of August and we get the July jobs report on Friday. Not likely to be a great number, but the FED has dismissed all the jobs misses so it shouldn’t be a surprise, unless the FED sees something new. I do think the inflation report next week is also likely to be a terrible number, but once again, the FED will just dismiss it with its new favorite word, “transitory” and keep right on ignoring the inflation we all see. Housing is another issue, prices continue to rise across the country and in many areas, it’s more than double digit increases year over year. While activity has slowed down a little in some areas, volume of both home sales and demand remains strong. Fueling much of that is the insane rise in rents. Last month we saw a 2% increase in rents, leading to more than a 10%…
“The higher the climb, the better the view.” Bacotkeren.blogspot.com Dayo Dekker began buying rental homes close to streets where houses were being revitalized and renovated. He did not buy on the same street where revitalization was actively taking place, but he bought ahead of the path where the revitalization was headed so he could still buy at a low enough price to get a good profit from his tenants, and yet he could see his values pop up quickly as more and more other investors started buying around him and fixing up houses. Dayo positioned himself with a rooftop view of his local real estate market and bought ahead of the curve for a quicker return on income and value. Rent vs. Buy Decision If you are a renter in Memphis, TN, rents have gone up 13.5% year over year. That means if you were paying $1,000/month in 2020, you…
Meet Samantha Knoerr who helped Christy Buck build the massively successful Christy Buck team from 3 to 28 members. Starting out as a babysitter she rose to Operations Manager of one of the most dominant real estate offices in the Houston Texas area. As the power behind the Christy Buck Team, Samantha and Christy have built a team by deploying systems and strategies from the Workman Success Systems. If you have resisted hiring a good admin, and want to learn how to work less and make more, discover how Samantha uses organizational excellence to grow each member of the team to profitability for everyone! Samantha is the Chief Operations Officer for the Christy Buck Team and a lifetime area resident. While studying Psychology in college, Samantha decided to pursue her career in real estate and began working with Christy as her assistant. She has been with The Christy Buck Team…
As a leader, do you have your finger on the pulse of what’s happening every week? Your team needs real leadership in a time that they need it most! People are still buying and selling and if we feel responsibility to help them, we have to figure out ways to help prospects even though we are physically restricted. Master Coach, speaker, trainer and radio host, Cleve Gaddis, from Remax Center in Atlanta, addresses how giving your team structure and systems can shift them from Lead Accountability to Lead Awareness. Cleve Gaddis is a Master Coach, speaker, and trainer with Workman Success Systems who works with some of America's most-profitable teams. He specializes in helping family-owned brokerages and teams navigate the challenges unique to family businesses. Cleve hosts "Your Move Atlanta," a weekly radio show on 640 AM, a Fox News station on iHeartRadio. He learned to sales the hard…
So many times, people will ask me why some people are far more productive than others? Why some people are more organized than others? How is it that some people get far more done in less time than others? Well, to me the answer is largely that people who do more, are much more likely to be more scheduled in their actions and activities than those who aren’t. I learned early in my career from a well-established loan officer that you can spend all your time trying to remember what you were supposed to be doing next, or you could spend your time doing the things you needed to do. It’s a choice. Back then, we didn’t have CRM’s to auto populate tasks and activities into our schedule for us, but we could use a planner to schedule WHEN we had to look at or review something or when we…
Ralph Waldo Emerson-“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” Samir and Sabba had finally found a home that would give them some rest from the busy city and the noise. They had been visiting with a builder who called them to let them know that he had a ready-made house that had everything on their wish list. The first buyer was supposed to close in the next two and a half weeks but had backed out due to a family emergency. So if Samir and Sabba wanted the house, they would need to buy it right away, or the builder would have to take the next offer. How could Samir and Sabba close in two and a half weeks on the new home if they could not sell the old one yet? They would need to use a large…
2021 has been a far from typical year. As everyone tries to find what the new normal looks like, we all are trying get ourselves adjusted. As we approach August, we realize the next “new” hurdle will be getting everyone in the family on track with the new schedules and timing of all the kids going back to school. Back to school in any other year takes some getting used too. In 2021, with most of the country sending their kids back to school on a full-time basis is going to take some extra work! These time and schedule adjustments, even for those without children, can become a real challenge. I for one do not have any children living with me that are going back to school. However, the entrance to my community is on the same street as a school. Everyone that lives here knows that you must work…
"By choosing our path, we choose our destination." Quotemaster.org When you are looking for the quickest and easiest path up to your mountain, take the Mountain Trail Guide Sherpa with you. A good financial advisor, a good economist, and a knowledgeable mortgage professional are like Trail Guide Sherpas. They are standing at the top of the mountain, looking down along every trail. When asked, the financial trail guide can point clients to what looks like the best trail to get to their destination. Let's take a look down the paths of homeownership: 1. The median home price this week of $363,300 is up over 23% year-over-year. The media is saying it is a Home Affordability Crisis. But remember that Median Home Price does not determine affordability. Affordability is determined by the relationship between home value Appreciation and wages. Appreciation is only up 14% year-over-year. People…
I’ve been hearing from my clients and have read some comments by others that people are saying they are going to “wait” until home prices come back down and it’s more of a “buyers’ market” before buying their next home. That is an interesting thought, but it begs the questions: • When will those prices come back down, and from what level and to what level will they go to?• Will the come back down price be lower than it is today?• What is the cost of your current housing doing?• What will the cost to borrow be IF, and it’s a big if for a reason, if the cost to you to borrow LESS MONEY is higher than the cost of borrowing MORE MONEY is today You see, I am not sure who it is that is guaranteeing that home prices will fall below where they are today, and by how much they are guaranteeing those…
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What if there was a way to schedule yourself an hour a week to help you generate $25K, $50K, $100K, or more? In our business it isn’t all that big a challenge if we make a choice to commit the effort toward that specific result. It really is that simple, you just have to do three things: 1. Identify the time, this case Wednesday for an hour2. Identify the strategy – plenty to choose from3. Commit to the work until you reach the result. It’s not any harder than that! For most of my clients. It is just a matter of setting it up as a personal challenge and then holding them accountable to the plan and the work! Right now, my favorite challenge is looking back over the clients we did loans for prior to December of last year, or those we spoke with about doing a loan that…
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anonymous We are experiencing an unusual real estate market convergence of robust home sales, the highest home values we have ever seen, and the lowest mortgage rates we have ever seen. These three factors, rarely ever seen operating together, are like walking into a master design studio full of problem-solving tools and innovative ideas hanging on every hook. As a result, you can redesign your home, your finances, and your lifestyle. Don’t wait too late to get started, though. The market is always moving. This week we were surprised by mortgage rates dipping lower than we have seen since February. The Federal Reserve assured investors they would give plenty of notice before tapering off on the mortgage-backed security bond buying. The Fed’s aggressive bond-buying has been a critical reason mortgage rates have remained…
Clearly, agents need to be on top of the latest innovations to help their clients, so here’s a quick rundown of two new tech tools that will add more profitability to your toolkit. It’s hard enough to keep up with the demands of buyers and sellers, but when we add new technologies into the mix in the form of apps, platforms, and services, it can be overwhelming! Here’s a few tips on what’s available to you to help buyers buy and seller’s sell: No agent on site? No problem! What if you could show a property without being there? You may be thinking, ”virtual tours have been around for years,” what’s so novel about that? I’m not talking about virtual tours at all! There is a new innovation in the showing game, called Occupi (www.getoccupi.com/). This app was developed when an agent kept complaining to her tech-head boyfriend that a…
Half the year is done, and opportunities remain strong. As many are complaining about the typical items like “lack of inventory” or “rising interest rates”; my clients across the country are checking in up more than 9% in total units over the same time last year. So somehow, people who are working are making it happen! It’s not hard to see why people are swayed by the media and those YouTube “experts” with their doom and gloom forecasts, it’s hard to see the reality looking through the distorted lens of much of the information. Yes, home sales in the month of April were down 4.4% year over year. This helped fuel the speculation of the end of the housing market. Then the May numbers come in UP 8% year over year and nobody seems to have much to say? It doesn’t stop there, mortgage applications are down 6.9% - 5%…
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