Pending home sales rose solidly in February to their highest level in seven months and remain higher than a year ago, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Led by a sizeable increase in the Midwest, all major regions except for the Northeast saw an increase in contract activity in February. The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, rose 3.5 …

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro recently announced HUD is allocating more $1.8 billion to public housing authorities in all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to make needed capital improvements in their properties. The grants are provided through HUD’s Capital Fund Program, which offers annual funding to approximately 3,100 …

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If you have not read either of the first two posts entitled “Close More…Make More…Work Less I and II” you should go back and read them to get the most out of this tirade. Great…glad your back. So we had 20 agents that all understood the cost of generating leads, the cost of not following up and we hadn’t had a word about how to …

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If you haven’t read the blog that preceded this one, turn off your recorder and go back and read “Close More, Make More…Work Less I” Now that is done we can focus on the second phase of having a system. Systems allow us to measure our effectiveness and determine what was most effective and expand on it as well as what was least effective and …

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