Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Santa Clarita Valley Weekly Updates

If you are looking for market data – you have come to the right place.  These newsletters are extremely accurate and contain data from all of the cities within the Santa Clarita Valley.  Real Estate data that is gathered and compiled from each of the Boards of Realtors in Southern California.

Most all of these cities are part of the Santa Clarita Valley – Acton might be the only community that folks question.  But because of our Paris911 Team being active in Acton – it is a GREAT idea to place this information at your fingertips as well.

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These maps regenerate their data each week.  If you want to get your own, much more detailed, newsletter about Real Estate Values in the Santa Clarita Valley fill out the form below.  You will be emailed in short order with the first of your weekly updates.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Santa Clarita Realtors – We put “real” in “realtor”.

Santa Clarita Realtors

It has always amazed me that in this day and age – where information is so abundant with the advent of the internet and wiki – that service providers are still giving non-factual information to those that are enlisting their services.

If you found out something that you were told to be false – it would make you angry.  Now think about something that cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars being false.

We always tell everyone that works with the Paris911 Team to check what we are telling you with another source.  Even if that includes interviewing another agent or team, calling up the local boards of realtors, or calling the National Association of Realtors.  With all of the information in the world being so accessible, as I stated previously, I am amazed anyone gets away with it.

Here is what I think happens – it is the hard close tactic coupled with “high pressure” that is making people rush and sign before validating the information that was relayed to them.

When someone comes to your home expecting you to sign a listing contract when you have already told them you are interviewing others – and press you as if your desires are not valid, that person should have another issue when they wake from a state of unconsciousness.

I am not advocating violence – but attempting to drive home a point.  You are the consumer, you are the one doing the hiring, it is your dime (at least if you are the seller), you should be able to make your own choices without being bombarded with lies and pressure.

Be Safe and My BEST.

Monday, May 17, 2010

I am currently on the crapper… Please leave a message…

image Voice Mail for Real Estate?  It is necessary, because when we are with clients in meetings or showing properties I definitely consider it rude to answer the phone.  Our clients deserve our 100% attention.

But I want my greeting at our business offices very short, concise and to the point. 

I want to let the caller know that they have called the right place and it was not a misdial.  I then want to inform them I think Voice Mail sucks, but we have no choice at the time they called.

Thirdly – I want to advise the caller we will return or call them back as soon as possible.

How is that?   Less that 40 words, or there about.  But you will notice if you call around to other agents you might get the “schedule” voice mail.  I return calls between 1 and 2 and again from 6 to 7, that means that agent never answers their phone. 

How about the VM that says we are tied up with clients or finding buyers for our sellers and sellers for our buyers.  Why not just say all of the possibilities – including being on the “john”.  But I digress.

I have had it taught in some of the time management classes to “always return calls”, never answer them.  But what about someone like our team, that do our best to pick up the phone, if we know the number or if we know for sure it is not a “sales” call from a Real Estate vendor of some type.

Here is the bottom line – there are indeed sometimes that we will not be able to answer the phone.  But we try to answer it most of the time.  We are The Paris911 Team and we are Real Estate Head Quartered in the Santa Clarita Valley serving the surrounding communities.

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