Shawn OBrien

Looking for affordable new construction in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Well I represent some of the best priced and most reasonable builders. I have one builder who has presold most of his new construction in 2008. This in a market the media is calling "poor". We have been able to do this mainly die to the quality construction at current low market values. We are offering a choice between a 3 bedroom 2 full bath 1200sqft ranch or a 3 bedroom 2.5 bathroom 2 story at 1550sqft for $229,900,in Absecon, NJ. Yes $229,900 and your choice. This is 1 of 3 new constructions in Absecon and yes its the cheapest.

I also represent another builder who is offering new construction in Egg Harbor City, NJ at the low price of $214,900. This will be a 3 bedroom 2.5 bathroom 2 story, with 1550sqft. This is a great open floor plan layout with bartop divide between kitchen and dining room, extra wide stair and hallways, walkin closet and master bath in master bedroom. At the present moment this is the only new construction available and of course the best priced.

Finally I may have a builder aquiring land in desirable Smithville, NJ. This is a great area with its on schools and one of the best associations around. The association offers 2 olympic size swimming pools, 2 recreation centers with pool tables, foos ball tables, saunas and full nautilus equipment work out facility all for a low monthly association fee of $48.00 per month, owe and they pick up your trash too. By the way the rest of the residents of Galloway pay about $38.00 per month just to have trash picked up, so this is the bang for the buck. Now if my builder had a buyer for a 3 bedroom 2.5 bathroom 2 story with a 1 car garage in the $250,000 range he could probably aquire a lot in one of the great cul-de-sacs of Smithville.

So if you or someone you knows is searching for homes in Galloway/Smithville, homes in Absecon or homes in Egg Harbor City call Shawn O'Brien first at 609-442-9537 or email me at ShawnOBrien@KW.com, or visit my website at www.ShawnMOBrien.com

As always buy now its a buyers market and its your time to shine!!!

$233,900 buys you a 3 bedroom 2 full bath new construction ranch in Absecon. With a full basement, ktichen center island and open and flowing floor plan. Situated on a large 85x118 lot, on a quiet and private street. This is a preconstruction blowout and rare sale. Only 2 new constructions for sale in Absecon for under $250,000 and this one is the cheapest. Also there's only 1 for sale so once its gone its gone. Not much buildable land for sale at reasonable prices. Economy is down but so are prices and interest rates, which makes the iron hot and time for you to pull the trigger. It's amazing that more buyers were buying when the prices were at there all time highs. Now that the prices are at record lows along with interest rates less buyers are buying. Now is the time to get the deal of the century. You could be the one 5 or 7 years from now that says, "I bought at a great time," to your friend or a bank when your cashing out your equity. These are the times when millionaires are made. Act today on this new construction home for sale in Absecon, New Jersey, or any house in the Atlantic County area, cause its a buyers market why aren't you buying. Yes there is mortgage monies and free grant monies available, despite what you here on the news. Call me and I'll tell you how. Feel free to call me anytime at 609-442-9537 or visit my website at www.ShawnMOBrien.com. Good Luck and talk to you soon.

I take you back to June of 2001 soon after 9/11. As allot of people were I was doing a bit of soul searching as well as searching for some extra income while the economy was in a bit of a slump. In searching an employee of mine, told me how he invests in real estate and how I should try it. Now I was working in one of Atlantic Cities casinos and although I was making great money for my age I didn't have a real savings to start investing. So my employee said, "You've got a great personality, why don't you sell real estate?" In fact he told me if I got my license he would buy and sell all his properties through me. Well in 2001 I did, and he kept his promise, by the end of that year he bought 5 properties through me as well as referred everyone in his community to me. By the end of my first full year in real estate I made almost $22,000 which doesn't sound like much but this was about half of what I was making in my full time job, so I saw potential.

Now its 2003 and I'm at my second real estate office, a small Century 21 that helped me reach a higher stage of my career. Now although I reached high limits and made more money, I always new there was a better way, I was unorganized at best. I was working haphazardly, long hours and all times. There were plenty of times I wouldn't see my family for days. I would put a suit on by 8am every morning sell real estate all day and then go right to work by six, come home by 2:30am and do the same thing again the next day. Now because I worked crazy hours so did my clients, so there would be times I was doing contracts or on the phone in the middle of the night. I couldn't do this forever so I reduced my hours at the casino and it now was my part time job to my full time real estate job. Now I thought this would solve my chaotic life....but it didn't. I just began working later for real estate. I drove my wife so crazy being on the phone so much she booked a cruise because she knew this would be the one place she could see me without having to surgically remove my cell phone from my ear. Don't get me wrong it was a great time in real estate and I was doing well. In fact I was the top selling agent in my office for 3 years. 2005 was my best year as it probably was for allot of agents, the difference with me was I knew I didn't know enough about the real estate business or business itself. I also saw the writing on the wall with the amount of inventory that was stacking up, and I had a feeling the good old days were over. In fact I was right by 1st quarter of 2006 my sales were down almost 20%! I really knew now there has to be a better way.

In the end of 2006 I ran into a highly respected Real Estate Broker from another local office. In our short conversation at Wawa he said, I may be opening a new real estate company in the area called Keller Williams Realty. It peaked my curiosity just slightly, because although there were no Keller Williams in my area, I had heard of the company when I went to Florida. It also interest me by who was telling me about, one of the most respected and knowledgeable real estate professionals in the area, that man was Bill Wagner.

In 2006 I did make the million dollar club although my business was down about 20% from 2005. At the awards dinner I saw Bill again and told me he was in the incubating stage of opening a Keller Williams. Of course very nervous of change and probably gave the typical, "I'm happy where I'm at, again I was definitely interested. He did not try and force Keller Williams Atlantic Shore on me, rather focused on how my business was doing and what was I doing to change it. He asked questions like, "do you have a database?' and" Are you focusing on your 20%? I don't remember my responses but they couldn't have been that well thought out cause I had no database and no idea what 20% of what he was talking about. He without telling him knew this and since it was a celebration and cocktail hour simple said, I'm going to drop a book off to your house tomorrow and I want you to read it and well talk after you've read some. Next morning early, shorting after 9am, I get a knock at the door, its Bill with a red book. Now known to me as the Millionaire Real Estate Agent, is the best business, not just real estate, business book I've ever read. Now honestly I only read about 40 pages before Bill called me, but when he called he asked me if we could sit down and talk more about my business, not Keller Williams, my business. I accepted, and my wife and I went out to dinner with Bill and his wife. During dinner Bill explained to me ways I could improve my downward sloping business, and not that it was all ground breaking stuff, but structured and it all made sense. For example, having a database that actually works with systems to help keep me in contact with my clients. DUH! Focusing on the tasks that actually make me the money in my career. How about making an actually schedule for myself, as if I was an employee for my own business!! DUH, DUH!! Not rocket science stuff, but things I just hadn't done. These were just some of the simple tasks we talked about, most of Bill's ideas were out of the box, again not rocket science just great ideas I had never thought of. Midway through the night we did speak about Keller Williams Realty and its mission statement, goals and training!! Training was a big deal for me, because I'm not one to be too proud to say, I don't know something, but if I don't I want to find out. The other aspect of Keller that really peaked me was KW Cares. This is Keller Williams Realty's charitable organization. Basically each market center was charged to raise $30,000 per year to give back to their local community. How great is that, this says a lot about a company, and not only do they give to local charities, they give back to their agents and their families in need, (ex; A KW agent is ill can't work and has a lot of medical bills, that market centers KW Cares committee applies for a grant through corporate. I've seen them give more than what was asked for, thousands more.) The culture of this company, from what I had read and what Bill was telling me, blew me away. To say the least, I got it! I felt this was the change, knowledge and structure I was looking for. That evening I told Bill, I would be coming to work at Keller Williams Realty, as well as invest in the company.

My first day at Keller Williams Realty was the 2^nd Wednesday in March of 2007. I wasted no time getting my desk set up and organized. By midday I was on the phones calling every person I knew and had ever spoken to. Every number that was written on scraps of paper (this was my old database). As I was calling them I was entering them into my new database follow up program as well as asking them for referrals. When I was first told to this, I was uncomfortable, but after asking a few of my clients I realized they were happy to give them to me. (This remains today still one of my biggest sources of leads. Throughout the first 3 months of being at Keller Williams I had implemented a lot of the systems I was learned and read about in training. Guess what......it was working, I saw a difference in the amount of listings and sales, and in fact I ended 2007 up from 2006. Not by much, but it was slightly better, and saw the potential. In 2008, for the first time in my 7 years in real estate I wrote a business plan with the help from Bill and KW intranet online training. This is another powerful item I learned here, how do you know how to get somewhere if you don't know where you're going! DUH!! In fact as of October 2008 I am having my 2^nd best year ever and possible could end of being my best year, in what most are calling a bad market. Trust this is not an accident; it's me being on purpose! It was one of the best things I've done this year in addition to time blocking everything. Yes I mean everything, especially family time. Gary Panter my team leader told me the story of when he first started working with Bill, and Bill told him open your planner and first schedule what time you're going to spend with your family and schedule everything else around that. This is the most important thing I've learned at Keller Williams.

You could say Keller Williams Realty changes lives but that wouldn't be believable to most. So what I will say is, Keller showed me how to build, "Careers Worth Having. Businesses Worth Owning and Lives Worth Living"

And of course always remember;

GOD, FAMILY then BUSINESS

Shawn M. O'Brien

Keller Williams Realty Atlantic Shore

200 Tilton RD, Northfield, NJ 08225

www.ShawnMOBrien.com

ShawnOBrien@KW.com

609-442-9537

609-484-9890

Yes I mean free no gimmicks or catches. How would you like to buy your first home in Absecon, Galloway, Atlantic City, Egg Harbor City, Northfield or Pleasantville New Jersey and put no money out of pocket. Yes no money in what the economists are calling the worst credit crunch and economy as a whole since the great depression. The state of New Jersey and Atlantic County are giving forgivable second mortgage grant monies. I have used these funds for many buyers over the last year and it is to good to pass up. Ok here's how it works call me Shawn O'Brien@ 609-442-9537, I will put you in contact with a reputable bank, Countrywide, Superior Mortgage or Atlantic Coast and they will tell you first if you qualify. Don't be nervous it is not hard to qualify. Basically if you make under $92,000 married and $71,000 single and haven't owned a home in 4 years you qualify for something. Once you qualify we will figure out whether you qualify for as little as a 4% grant from the state or a much as a $30,000 grant from the Atlantic County. Depending on how much money we can get you and what monthly payment you qualify for we will find a home in that price range. Once we have found the house that you LOVE and fits your financial needs we will make an offer. Now the best part is the wonderful mortgage professional I have put you in contact with due 90% of the work. All you have to do is provide them with copies of everything they ask you for quickly as possible. For a list of these professionals visit my website at www.ShawnMOBrien.com. During the time you are being approved by the bank, we will be conducting a home inspection, termite inspection, survey and full title search to make sure this property is safe, dependable and ready for closing. Now when we go to closing the only stipulation on most of these grants is that you own the property for a period of 5 to 7 years depending on which grant your getting. The large grant for $30,000 is only 5 years. Without further hesitation.......there is no catch, the grant is forgiven, you never pay it back. Now if you do sell during the 5 years you will be made to pay some back, the longer you own the less you owe.

Now if you are in the situation that you may have to relocate and move within the time periods I mentioned, I would suggest not taking the money. At this point I am telling most of my buyers if your buying a home you should plan on being in it for a period of at least 5 years so you get the right amount of appreciation and make LOTS OF MONEY WHEN YOU SELL!!! But if your someone who frequently relocates I have something for you. An INTEREST FREE GOVERNMENT LOAN!!!!! Yes the feds aren't the only people that get these great bail outs, we can get them too, its just not advertised a lot. Yes a $7500.00 tax rebate at the end of 2008 or 2009, to be paid back on a schedule of $500.00 per year for 15 years at ZERO PERCENT INTEREST!!!! How good is that. You may have heard in the beginning of 2008 the feds passed the housing stimulus package, this tax rebate is part of that bill. Again if you have not owned a home in the past 4 years and YOU BUY A HOME IN ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY BEFORE APRIL OF 2009, you are eligible for up to $7500.00 interest free tax rebate. These opportunities are not going to be around forever to BUY NOW, CAUSE ITS A BUYERS MARKET AND ITS YOUR TIME TO SHINE!!!