Ten Reasons NOT to Hire a Real Estate Virtual Assistant

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Jenifer

#10 – You want to continue working 14 hour days so you can squeeze in time with clients and all the administrative stuff you have to do.

#9 – You enjoy updating listings, statuses and price changes on your website.

#8 – You look forward to hand addressing all your business Christmas card envelopes.

#7 – Scheduling all your own tweets and Facebook posts is at the top of your to-do list.

#6 – Creating your newsletter and holiday email blasts doesn’t take more than 5 minutes.

#5 – You have a math degree so bookkeeping comes easy to you.

#4 – You like typos in your blog posts.  It gives them character!

#3 – You don’t have any unfinished projects on your to-do list.

#2 – Database management is your new hobby and you believe data entry builds character.

#1 – Your budget affords you the luxury of hiring a full-time, in-office assistant who you can pay a premium wage to work 8 hours a day even when you have no work for them to do, plus benefits.

If none of these apply to you, you are probably a great candidate for working with a virtual assistant.  If you’ve never worked with a virtual assistant before, give me a call today and I’ll explain all the benefits of partnering with me in your real estate business!

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Selling Your House As-Is – Guest Post by Rich Cederberg

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Jenifer

If you own an Albuquerque House you need to sell and you don’t have a lot of money for repairs, you may be considering selling in as-is condition. While this may sound like a good way to save some money upfront, it’s probably not in your best interests. Here are three important things to consider:

  • It will make your home much harder to sell. Advertising a home for sale in as-is condition is unusual. It’s usually only done on bank owned foreclosure homes or on fixer upper homes that are in extremely bad condition. Labeling your house “as-is” alerts potential buyers that your house needs serious repairs which you are not willing to pay for. You know what? They are probably not willing to pay for them either!
  • It will cost you more money. In case you haven’t noticed, foreclosure homes and fixer uppers always sell for considerably less than market value. We’re talking about 20% below market value or more. Trying to save money by refusing to do repairs will cost you a ton of money, way more than the actual cost of the repairs.
  • Many repairs can be paid for out of proceeds at closing. You say you don’t have any cash to pay for repairs upfront? That’s OK, you can still put the house on the market. Any buyer who makes an offer on your house is going to want to have a home inspection performed anyway.  If the home inspection reveals repairs that need to be done,* your Realtor should be able to help you locate repair people who will accept payment at closing.

Worried that the home inspector will discover you need a new roof or some other major repair? No worry, every offer has a repair limit on it. The amount varies on the age and condition of a property, but typically ranges from $1,000 to $2,500. If the total repair cost exceeds the repair limit you won’t have to do it. However, if you don’t agree to do the repair the buyer can elect to pay for it themselves or they may terminate the contract. Or they may want to adjust the sales price. Even an adjusted sales price would be better than the as-is price.

Sell your home as-is only if you are sure the condition of the house is poor. Otherwise you’re much better off agreeing to do a few repairs.

*It is your responsibility as a seller to disclose any problems with the house that you know of. Failure to do so could result in a lawsuit.

Guest post written by Albuquerque Real Estate Agent Rich Cederberg, (505) 803-5012,

Venture Realty Group 505-255-5609

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Email Signature

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jenifer

Your email signature gives your recipient a quick easy way to reply to you via phone or email. I have used a person’s signature to get in touch with them when I didn’t have time to look up their contact info but remembered I had an email from them.

If your email client allows it you should have a full signature in every message you send. It should include your name, email address, phone number and website, if you have one. If you don’t have a website, call me and I’ll help you get one. You should also have a signature in your replies and forwards. These can be smaller and include only name and phone number.

Some people put a photo of themselves in their signature or a graphic of their company logo. If you do this make sure its a clean image, not fuzzy or pixelated. Check out my signature

Email Signature

The link below gives step by step instructions on how to set up an email signature in just about any email client that exists today. If you need help setting up your email signature, contact me today!

How to Create an Email Signature

 

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Excel 2010 – Something I learned today

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jenifer

So I’m doing this spreadhseet project and I needed to copy and paste a row but I also had some cells in that row hidden. I couldn’t get it to only paste the visible fields. I did some research and here is how to do it:

Select the row or column you want to copy
Click Find & Select in the top right corner
Select Go To Special
Check Visible Cells Only
Then proceed with your copy/paste as usual

This saved me TONS of time today!

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iPad Revolutionary for Real Estate Industry?

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Jenifer

Click here to find out how.

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