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Eureka Montana Real Estate

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Why is YOUR Eureka Montana REALTOR not giving you Cash Back..


Why is YOUR Eureka Montana Real Estate Agent, your Eureka REALTOR not giving you Cash Back at your Real Estate Closing. Buyers Rebates are NOW legal in Montana but the Agents are seeming to Hide this Fact from the BUYERS, why?
The Answer: Basic Greed.

Ask your Eureka Montana Real Estate Broker to GIVE you Cash Back at Closing, DEMAND a Buyers REBATE, you are Entitled to this, the Law Now permits it and yet the Realtors are still convincing the Buyer that it is something mysterious and being so vague about it - when the Fact is they simply don't want you to have a part of their paycheck, Bottom Line - end of story.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Coldwell Banker Cares about Coldwell Banker and Not About the Best Marketing Plan for the Seller to Find a Buyer

Realtors Marketing you on Mega Sites is NOT good for Buyers to Easily Find You and is NOT good for Sellers to get SOLD quickly and for a decent price.

It was a Sunday, I took hundreds of photos, by Sunday night We had re-worked the photos, cropped them, created slideshows to embed on websites and on blogs, within 24 hours we had online videos coming up at the top of the Search Engines, we had large photo galleries on multiple sites, the week before we had around 20 hits a day to CarpenterLake.com - 2 days after our marketing campaign we had 200 hits a day – this was all viable interest from potential buyers searching online – this kind of marketing is in the BEST interest of the Real Estate Seller.

We had listed this Seller’s property with wonderful photos on over 30 websites, these websites are connected to our Number One Internet Marketing Network for Northwest Montana. We have Websites on EVERYTHING Northwest Montana, all towns – destination and recreational opportunities.

By Wednesday our Website Visitor Stats was increasing rapidly and the phone was ringing, by the end of the Week COLDWELL Banker Eureka Montana had stopped us from marketing this listing, which we were doing for FREE and would have SOLD it FOR the listing agent while they got PAID for Doing NOTHING….

There is a Carpenter Lake in Many States, yet Carpenter Lake.com is Number one for Carpenter Lake. You would expect that this would be obvious but it is NOT – we work hard to be number one to get Our Real Estate Sellers found and we do this for $50 a year per site per listing. Realtors talk their Sellers into believing that this Kind of Marketing is NOT good for them. Why? Is it because it is Too Cheap ? Is it because the Seller can find a buyer without the Realtor and BETTER then the Realtor?

The Buyers are ALL looking online for what Sellers have for Sale YET the Realtors are Still Marketing in Newspapers and Shiny Magazines and Even Charge $5000 and up to Market Real Estate for Sellers and Gullible Sellers Take it On the Chin and Pay up. (NEVER pay a Realtor to Market your Real Estate – that is THEIR job) Better yet Market your Real Estate without a Realtor online where a Buyer might just actually find you.

Back to my Story, the Seller had called me asking for Help, I got permission from the Listing Agent to do an ENORMOUS amount of Free Work for the Seller and my take in all this was if and only if I found a buyer I would get the same 3% that any Realtor would get. So my Company went to working with a Dynamic Internet Marketing Campaign and for Free. I am telling you this story to tell you how far REALTORS – and Coldwell Banker will go to STOP you from knowing that you can use Internet Marketing for thousands upon thousands of dollars cheaper then they charge you. And you can STOP lowering your price every other week because the Realtor cannot get you found by the Buyers. And this will save possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars.

You would expect your Realtor to Give you the Best Marketing out there but instead they giver you Realtor.com and other Mega-Website Listing Options. Instead your Realtor believes every word their Corporate Head tells them instead of figuring this stuff out themselves.

Realtors are No Longer needed in the Real Estate transaction and they are convincing Seller that they are still need and will protect them in the real estate Transaction.
No Way – No How.

Realtor CANNOT protect you in the Real Estate Transaction. I am a Broker Owner, I QUIT the National Association of Realtors last January – I KNOW this Stuff – Don’t Use a Realtor – Don’t List With ME… Sell by Owner on the Internet Where the Buyers are looking for you.

Our Network is Enormous, We offered FREE marketing to this Seller because we knew the Seller and wanted to help them find a buyer. We felt bad because they had NOT had one showing in 2 years according to the Seller and we got a VERY good marketing campaign out for their listing VERY fast and the stat counter went crazy.

We had this real estate for sale on every related state and local site that we would and this marketing was hooked up in our network in such a way that NO WAY would a buyer looking or if a buyers agent were to look they would miss it.

Of course Real Estate Buyers agents do not wish to look for ALL possible options they only have eyes for the MLS database and Buyers that work with these ( REALTOR) buyers agents DO NOT get told about all possible real estate options to buyer in their area. Realtors want to sell you what is easiest and WILL NOT google the area to look for real estate, buyers do however and if they are loyal to their REALTOR they will tell the REALTOR what they found and convince the Realtor to call the FSBO – Bank – Or Non REALTOR member to show the property and get a commission.

Coldwell Banker STOPPED us
from putting these photos and videos on websites everywhere to benefit the Seller. And though with IDX – ALL Realtors have each others listings on all the Realtors sites – so it is ok as long as you stay within their system of control. If you market as a FSBO – or market your REALTOR listed property on a Targeted Internet Marketing Website for your Area where BUYERS will find you then Coldwell Banker says NO. They want your LISTING on Realtor.com only and they don’t want you to know that our type of marketing works. If you find out then you will do it yourself and they can’t have that.
Coldwell Bankers parent Company has financial interest
in Realtor.com and that is why the want to keep control over you.

A Realtor, a Franchise should NOT be able to tell you what your Marketing Choices are, they should not be allowed to have this kind of power.

We spent a week removing hundreds of photos, lots of videos, emailing other sites that had picked us up to remove videos, changed blogs, changed photos and pulled a marketing campaign that would have got the Seller a buyer. We took it on the Chin and What you need to Know is DO NOT let your Realtor stop you from marketing in a way that REALLY is beneficial to you. Do NOT let your Realtor stop you from putting up your own fliers – picking your own websites to market on. You Do Not NEED a Realtor, a REALTOR, NAR member NEEDS you !!! You should be calling your own shots – but instead the Realtor convinces the Seller that those sites won’t work – when they CERTAINLY do – and then the REALTOR convinces you to lower your price – lower – lower – YOU LOSE.

Coldwell Banker STOPPED us from Actually Benefitting the Real Estate Consumer and For FREE. STOP using Realtors - It can hurt you more then you may be able to see at the time. You Think they know what you need them to know, you think that it is their job to know this stuff. But they REALLY don't Know and with this... YOU Lose.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Merchantable Title Removed From Realtors Standard Forms - WHY?

Why was the concept / provision of "Merchantable Title" removed from the Realtor's Standard-Form, why do Realtors have so much Power? I know that Realtor - Standard Forms are For Realtors but How far will State - Local and Federal Agencies Let REALTOR - NAR go in their direct and seemingly deliberate attack on the Real Estate Consumer.

What is Merchantable Title ? And how can you better Protect yourself?

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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Where Does Your Realtors, NAR member look for Real Estate options for the Buyer to Buy Real Estate in Eureka. Well It seems they look ONLY in the MLS

Is it Really TRUE that Realtors, Member of NAR only look in the MLS for Real Estate for Sale or On their Franchise Website. In the last week I have had several agents tell me that they look ONLY in those 2 places. Now if a Real Estate Agent is to be VERY knowledgeable of Real Estate for Sale in Places such as Eureka Montana for Example they had better learn how to Google, to search for Eureka Real Estate for Sale on the Internet and NOT the MLS. A buyer Does not automatically Know NMAR.com they search for what they want and the Don’t Find your REALTOR…

Folks, REALTORS are misleading YOU.... BUYERS are Not Looking in Magazines for your Eureka Montana Real Estate, Buyers are Not looking on Franchise Websites unlesss they just happen to find them, and buyers are NOT searching the MLS first unless they know the area and a REALTOR tells them to. If your Looking for Eureka Montana Waterfront Real Estate What will you type into the search engines.. will it be Century 21, will it be Coldwell Banker, will it be NMAR or will it Obviously be "Eureka Montana Waterfront Real Estate" Makes Sense to Me.. What Would You Do?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

your Real Estate Transaction is VERY complex, you NEED to know a Whole lot - don't even try.. JUST use a Realtor.

NOT....

The National Association of Realtors wants you to think that your Real Estate Transaction is so very complex. That it is Mind-numbing, eye-glazing, Frustrating, has lots of Math, so many people to call and things to do.. surely it would be over your head and quite frankly to hard to even Go There.

The NAR wants you the Real Estate Consumer to Give up Easily on Not Using a Realtor and to believe that it is “Easier” and better for you to use a Realtor, I mean hey, it’s their job right. What could you possibly know about Real Estate that Your Realtor does not Know?

As a Real Estate Broker Owner I am here to tell you that you Know a Whole lot more about selling your home then your Realtor. They punch in your data into a form, the title company closes the deal, it is a No Brainer process for Big pay. You Do NOT need a Realtor, but hey if that Secret gets out and is really believed across the board then the Multi-Billion Dollar “Realtor” Cartel comes tumbling down and the Consumer takes back their real estate transaction and the Consumer Wins.

I mean wouldn’t it be terrible if your neighbor walked over and said “hey, I got a buddy in Florida looking to move here, you interested in selling” and what if you said “yes” and the buddy buys it, closed at the Title Company - contracts written up by a Real Estate Attorney and there was No Member of the National Association of Realtors involved? Would the Earth Stop Turning?

I mean really how bad would it be if buyers and seller simply bought and sold without the dangerous interference and drama of a member of the National Association of Realtors who wears their “Ethics” badge and worthless credentials as some sort of intimidation and fear tactic into making you BELIEVE you NEED them.

A Realtor, a member of the National Association of Realtors, really can cause more harm then good in your real estate transaction. And in the future when something goes wrong or comes up they PROVIDE no protection for you the Real Estate Consumer, What So Ever.

It would just be soooo awful if Buyers and Sellers could navigate without all the drama, financial loss and damage done to them.

Real Estate Marketing

The Realtor tries to convince the Real Estate Seller that need to be on Realtor.com - they do this through spouting statistic such as they get 60 Million hits a month. How many of these "Hits" do you really think has anything to do with Eureka Montana Real Estate... maybe 10.

The Realtor does not see the relevance of a buyer being able to find your website on a search engine or to directly type in the website and find the Real Estate that you - the Seller has for Sale.

Realtor’s arrogance or their one hundred percent believe in what their “franchise” or the “National Association or Realtors” tells them is not good for you the real estate consumer.

A Realtor will say things like Realtor.com gets over 60 million hit’s a month. And they convince the real estate Seller that this is where they need to be in order to sell their real estate.


This simply is NOT true.

What Does All these “Hits” to Realtor.com that your Realtor brags about, really mean to you the real estate Seller?

The Realtor, their Franchise and the National Association of Realtors wants - NEEDS you to believe that if you list with a Realtor, a member of the club, that you will be put on websites that will get you found by your buyer.

But in Reality - a real estate buyer is looking online for what you have to sell but they are not necessarily going to Realtor.com to do so.

If you were a real estate buyer what you do to start your online search for real estate say in Idaho. Say you want Idaho Horse Property. Would you limit your search to Realtor.com - go there and type in Idaho, or a known zip code, and then fumble through listings looking for horse property in Idaho or in Reality would you Really go to Google.com or your Favorite search engine and type in “Idaho Horse Property”.

I would MOST definitely go the search engine way. This way I would get ALL options, including the For Sale by owner and Non-Realtor “Idaho Horse Property” for sale.

And if I really wanted to narrow down the search I may even type in IdahoHorseProperty.com and see if it is relevant or useful in my search. But in No way would I want to get lost in a mega-site of hundreds of thousands of listing to find some specific type of property. If your Realtor is telling you different, they are Wrong, think it through and decide for yourself.

Franchise companies, such as Coldwell Banker, C21, Sotheby’s, and ERA are all owned by the same Corporation and they want you to be on their corporate website as well as sites like HomeGain, Realtor.com and other Mega-Sites that your listing will be lost on.

This Corporation wants this because they are part owner in these websites and they get “Ad Dollars” from Big Companies such as Insurance Companies, Mortgage Companies, Book Companies, Computer Companies and hundreds to thousands of other companies who PAY big money to advertise on their website because they get so much traffic.

These website get the traffic from Your Real Estate Listing. And the Realtors, the agents who faithfully work for these companies believe every word they say and follow their leader, without question.

Your real estate listing makes the whole process work. Without your real estate listing, photos and information on your property - state and town, then it would be painfully obvious that the real purpose of the website is the multi-million dollar company that website has created from ad dollars and selling “stuff” - Not Your Real Estate.

They do not want Realtors and Sellers to have their own websites and to compete for their traffic in the search engines.

I have had many a run in with the Association of Realtors when I tried to compete in “their” market on the internet even when I was a loyal - and reputable member of the National Association of Realtors. They want their agents to submit content ( which is photos, write ups and information about Your Real Estate Listing) to their websites so that they can use this “content” to make their websites useful and interesting to people who go there so that they can sell them “other” stuff.

So what really does a “hit” to a website mean? If your Realtor says that you need to be on Realtor.com and that this site gets over 60 million “hits” a month what does this really mean.

A “hit” could be a one second landing, it could be Realtors themselves, it could be advertisers, data providers, or people looking for something else on one of there pages. Realtor.com has 914,000 pages as of today. A “hit” is on any of these pages, and is certainly NOT relevant to your “Idaho Horse Property” for example.

You begin to see how this works and you wonder what makes the Realtors lie like they do. The thing is the Realtors I have spoke with on this are faithful workers for the “man”.

They “honestly” believe that you, the real estate seller will have more luck selling your “Idaho Horse Property” - for example - on Realtor.com than on a more relevant, target and useful site that your buyer can easily find you and take interest in your real estate for sale.

You Need a Website - Full Size Photos - possibly video ( homemade just fine) - and lots of information on your property and why it is so great, put this out there on the internet where buyers are looking for you.. Get your Real Estate for Sale FOUND better then your local Realtor can, I guarantee it.

Not only is being on Realtor.com Not Necessary and Not Effective but it is a quick way to lose your buyer.

If a buyer is looking for “Idaho Horse Property” - for example and finds something possibly as a place to start on Realtor.com they will call the Realtors and you may just lose your buyer to the Realtor pushing another listing that they just happen to have for sale.

Or they may find this listing of interest on a local Realtors website. With IDX all the Realtors have each others listings on their website and a buyer does not really know whether they are calling the listing office or not.

So if your buyer calls another office - odds are they will push their own office listing, yes because they get paid more but not only that, it is easier to sell listings in house because of the constant drama and deliberate tactics used among Realtors in competing offices. It is just easier and more money to sell in house and easier yet to sell your own listings.

Remember the more hits that Realtor.com can get from you’re your listings being on their site, the more money they make from advertisers and all the other stuff that they sell on their website.

Crystal L. Cox