positive on real estate

What is the problem with most people making money in real estate? I got a clue ona plane ride to Vegas. 

Winnipeg continued to increase at a double-digit pace during the first three months of this year, according to a new national survey by Royal LePage Real Estate Services.

The real estate firm said a severe shortage of homes for sale and strong buyer demand drove up selling prices for all three major types of homes during the first quarter.
The greatest escalation was with detached bungalows, where prices jumped by an average of 19.7 per cent to $229,125. Condominium prices increased by 13.1 per cent to $138,000, while the cost of a standard two-storey home rose by 10.1 per cent to $242,943.

The agency said Winnipeg was one of several cities that bucked a widespread trend toward more moderate price hikes in the first quarter.

“Buyer activity in Winnipeg was extremely vigorous during the first quarter and propelled the housing market to its current strong state,” said John Froese, a broker with Royal LePage Prime Real Estate in Winnipeg.

Dave Lakhani
http://www.boldapproach.com
Listen to the whole interview to discover a secret link on Dave’s website that contains a ton of free gifts for you. Like an interview with industry great Seth Godin.

What does Jimmy Buffett’s Parrotheads, Apple Mac Heads and the Kiss Army, all have in common? They all enjoy a large fan base of zealots for their products and services. Dave shows you how to create your own army of followers that will guarantee your success in any marketplace.

Dave Lakhani has been described as a “Marketing Genius”,”Business Acceleration Strategist” and “Multipreneur” by his peers and the media.

Dave shares with you million dollar ideas that he charged me a ton of money when he originally taught me these principles. He opens up and shares:

• How to get clients to find you.
• Building Your own Cult-Would you like to build a list of clients as fanatical as an Alabama Bible Revival?
• The difference of manipulation and persuasion.
• How to position yourself as the expert in your local market.
• Dave actually builds a model to dominate your Real Estate Market in 90 Days or less.
• How saying no to business, can actually get you more yeses.
• Why facts tell, stories sell.
• Building your million dollar expert persona.
• A completely unique and wildly effective new way to virtually guarantee that your prospect will buy in your area.
• Why money follows action.
• How to make your listing irresistible.
• Why getting people out of their head and into their emotions will guarantee you real estate selling success in any marketplace.

Belief in your product is the most important thing in sales. So how how do you succeed when your home prices keep dropping? Dave shows you how to deal with what might seem like a crisis of conscious for some. 

This is by far the most revealing sales training I have heard in a very long time. In fact, I guarantee you have not heard this from any real estate trainer.

I thought these two posts from clients might demonstrate some positive things going on in real estate these days:

I. NOW is the Time to Buy Kapolei Real Estate!

 John Riggins Honolulu Hawaii

II. The Unexpected Positives in Real Estate

Connor MacIVOR Santa Clarita CA

Chris Frerecks
http://realestateblogsites.com
http://www.kineticblogs.com

Our clients are under siege. The current atmosphere as manifested by the more than happy to print anything negative media is that a Recession is eminent. This is affecting our client’s productivity as their own psyche has been hammered as has their potential buyers and sellers.

NAR has tried to do what they can, but they have used logic with statistical reframing as was so brilliantly displayed by http://www.inman.com/inmannews.aspx?ID=65242.

I really want to use the true power of the mastermind to create something larger than what everyone vendors and agents are currently doing. I want to raise the level of the conversation in the online real estate world.

Conference Call Starts This PartyI think the next step is a short and open conference call for all interested participants.Let’s do it Thursday Jan 10th at 12 Pacific. I would like all interested agents and vendors to jump on the call. I will send details Monday. Please be there as we will talk about how we will spread the word and get this going.

Hello-

Please read this all the way thru……

Unemployment in L.A. was at all time highs. Foreclosures were causing lending institutions to create entire new work out departments for pre-foreclosures and short sales. The only good being reported about the real estate market was cute stories of St. Joseph statues.

I remember how sick I was of all the bad news. Walking into my real estate office was like walking amongst the living dead. Eyes of disbelief and fear reminded me of the reality of the recession that infected my city. I remember my partner reporting the math on his “farm” area he worked in Westchester, CA

30% drop in year over year value .

The news came from television, magazines and newspapers back then.

Sound familiar?

Pundits say we are getting ever so closer to history repeating itself.

Whether we are or not, no one really knows. But I do know one thing. Our state and our emotions drive our decisions. The old sales 101 saying, “ We buy with emotion and justify with logic” still holds. I believe that markets are heavily influenced by this “group think” that occurs in part from a daily deluge of crap or good news.

We as an industry have benefited handsomely from the Real Estate run up. Our clients have looked towards us for advise and many have spent a small fortune with us.

I don’t need to tell you that like my old  real estate office above, most of our clients are looking for leadership.

Today we have the Net and we are the media to a large degree.  For the first time in history we have the power to create a collective voice. Especially thru our content we produce and disseminate thru our sites, blogs, and email.

Sure you have created killer aps and technology. But the benefits have not really reached that utopia talked about years ago in the Godin books or Cluetrain Manifesto. Thought Leadership and Group think can spread virally thru the web. Both Political parties do it to get their ideas across. But our clients have not yet spoken with any sort of unified message. I am sure there are plenty of reasons why, however I think this is a perfect opportunity to change that.

I am calling on all my vendor friends and those I do not know yet, to participate in what I am tentatively calling Positivity on Real Estate. This is a tremendous chance to use the web as a true marketing and publicity vehicle as we have always said it should be. We can lead by example. We can help frame the debate, and help our clients to create a positive image for their product.

Hey, it may or may not help change anything. But it will give focus to agents and brokers that sorely need direction.

First, I wish to circle the vendors as we have the resources. Then hand pick and then recruit Realtor bloggers and Website owners to create a new vibe and a new spirit.

We can offer them our leadership and resources to get their message out.  The first step is to get Vendors to raise their hand and then we will pick a day to conference. We will then establish a game plan to carry out this task.

This is a tremendous opportunity to give back and if executed properly will place us all in very high esteem in the industry. I already have many vendors & Realtors on board with their commitment of time and resources.

I look forward to hearing back from you with your thoughts, ideas, and criticism. Feel free to pass this onto anyone whom you think needs to see it.

Cheers,

Tim O’Keefe
Spider Juice Technologies
www.houseblogger.com

P.S.

FYI: I have been writing as an ”anti Bubbler” for years now:
http://www.houseblogger.com/houseblogger/real_estate_bubble/index.html

“It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want.
  It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings
  and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love.
  The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door,
  buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see
  all of us as one.”
   ~Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)
    Stand-up comic

Until one is committed
there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation),
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one’s favour all manner
of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamt
would have come his way.

I have learned a deep respect
for one of Goethe’s couplets:
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1951

 From Gary Halbert, author of The Coat-of-Arms Letter, the most mailed direct response letter in the history of direct response advertising…Gary Halbert…
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
  talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

 ”You are a child of God. Your playing small does not
  serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about
  shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure
  around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
  We were born to make manifest the glory of God
  that is within us. It is not just in some of us;
  it is in everyone.

 ”And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
  give other people permission to do the same.

 ”As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
  automatically liberates others.”
  ~ Gary Halbert (1952 - 2007)
    The Gary Halbert Letters