About Fremont's Parkmont

Where did he go? Such a nice guy too... Those words kept ringing through my head as I wondered where my seller must have gone. He and I had the long talk about his accessibility throughout the transaction and how important it would be to sign documents "en route" if he was going to leave the area. Well, leave the area he did, and now I cannot reach him. It's been about a week and a half.

As it is now, I have a short sale listing with him in the Parkmont area of Fremont. Nice area. See for yourself here. We had no activity for 3 months, now I have 2 offers, and I need his signature yesterday.

Other words that ring through my head are--"Hind site is 20/20." and, "I should have..."

Has anyone run across this or has something to share with the Realtor community so as to prevent this from happening?

You may not know this yet, but my blog needs readership. Yes, your reading it now, but just look at my comments on my previous blogs. My website gets quite a bit of traffic, but my blog?--I have next to 0.

My Active Rain gets some readership due to the fact that Active Rain bloggers simply feed off Active Rain, kind of an obsession with bloggers here.

But more on facebook is being published all the time. Lee Aase, the Chancellor of Social Media University, Global (SMUG) writes references to the news media about the applications of facebook below.

Here are some links to major news coverage about Facebook:

• USA Today
• Newsweek cover story
• TIME
• LA Times on application development in Facebook
• Fred Vogelstein’s LA Times essay on Facebook.
• Two articles in MarketWatch (Lee Aase is quoted here and here.)

Granted, I am very new to facebook and it's applications, but you can bet that facebook is an innovation in the home and in the business world. And, I will definitely be looking closer into the ways that it can help our office and our industry. At least there people write on my "wall."

Every home owner has found those "Just Listed" cards in their mailbox, then as an afterthought, tossed them in the trash. Well, as part of my GRI (Graduate, Realtor Institute) education a while back, I had the fortunate experience of learning some great marketing tricks while at the same time not upsetting the delicate ethical goings on of the real estate industry. One of these such tricks was a postcard.

For the agent who represents the seller, (the listing agent) they get to mail out all kinds of things for the homes they are listing:

• Just Listed: Parkmont Beauty w/ Huge Lot
• Pending: The Parkmont House
• Just Sold: That Same House I've Been Telling You About For About a Month
  

1. Gets the buyers agent name out in the community.
   
2. Promotes their buying success (owners/sellers take notice too).
3. Eliminates the need to ask for listing broker permission.