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So being the good RealTown member and dedicated reader of all the group digests and email feeds I finally decided to take the plunge and check out a Point2 website. I immediately signed up, got my new website URL and proceeded to make it my own.
Instantly I was hit with the error message "Internet explorer only." I thought Point2 was way ahead of the game. Imagine creating a product which is geared to a rapidly shrinking marketplace. This is a company I was advised to turn to for all my web needs.
Am I missing something?
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Today I heard a great term, "HomeAholic" and I finally realized why I went into real estate. I love homes. To be a little more precise, I love older homes. When you walk into a house that has been around 5 or more decades, the house envelopes you with life. You can feel all the people who have walked through those rooms and left little pieces of themselves in every room.
It was a neat little term that probably says a lot about many who work in real estate.
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It has been almost a month since I last added a post. It was a solemn oath that I would post a minimum of three times a week, and now ...
When we last met I was slightly complaining about the length of time it takes to build a new real estate practice: brick, mortar, brick, mortar. The plan was working slowly but steadily creating marketing opportunities, expanding the sphere of influence and getting loads of education. On paper I anticipated about six months of business construction before seeing a payoff. It was what Bryan Buffini in his "100 Days to Greatness" course calls farming.
Then buyers changed my well thought out plan, not that I am complaining. On Monday I got my first accepted offer, yea! Another buyer has already signed a Buyer's agreement and who knows where the others will lead. I have been "hunting" over the past month by accident.
But, all my seeds are in serious jeopardy. The Buffini 5-5-5-5-5 is looking more like 1-1-0-0-0. My long term projects are getting stretched and in danger of falling apart, but my education is going gangbusters. I have attended a WHEDA (Wisconsin Housing) seminar, my weekly Buffini lessons, a HUD conference, Legal Update, WRA Government Affairs, and I start my ABR classes in three weeks.
This is an exciting time. Spring may not have arrived yet in North East Wisconsin, but my season has begun, if only I can remember and plan on working the seeds, solidifying the mortar and any other silly metaphor that comes to mind.
As Buffini would have me say, "I am never too busy for your referrals."
The website has also taken a hit on updating but tonight and tomorrow I will be adding several pages and updating the news areas. Check it out!
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One month ago I signed all the paperwork to become a Real Estate Agent.
Today is the first day in a month I can finally begin to see progress. I feel like a construction worker, lay a brick, slather with mortar, lay another brick, slather with mortar. The bricks are the solid foundations: a desk, business cards, education, advertising. The mortar are all the connections that firm up the foundation: announcement letters, referrals, social on-line sites, professional connections, website, blog.
The list of things that must be done is not only infinite but fascinating. Each thing you do shows you other connections, other foundations you can also build on. My previous career it was exclusively word of mouth, who you knew, who called you for what job. There was really no opportunity for self promotion except maybe around the bar at 4 a.m. on election night.
When I reach my two month anniversary I hope to be adding the roof of my new adventure. It will definitely be a green roof with lots of grass, trees and flowers so I can venture up and enjoy everything I have done from the top.
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For the past month and a half I have been waiting. Waiting to get this password, approval for membership, the okay on this idea, just waiting. What do you do while waiting? You make work for yourself that three months from now will have you cursing words that even George Lucas couldn't event. The more I wait the more I create. My website (OshkoshNeighborhoods.com) has 9 pages that are updated weekly, one page is updated every two days and one every day. This is not the cool automated way, no this is my going in, finding content, writing it and then dolling it up in Dream Weaver. Yesterday my blog emerged from hibernation as a new extension of my inner most thoughts on this whole adventure. That ads a few hours a week to my future work load. I designed my own business cards, ads, stationary. The only problem with doing any of that is now a design has been established, a branding if you will, so it has to carry on. Perhaps I should have just read other blogs and kept my ideas as ideas.
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This is a place to talk about Real Estate in general, Oshkosh Real Estate in particular, Oshkosh as a life style, UW-Oshkosh and of course the neighborhoods of the East-Side and University. I will be posting at least three times a week, so I hope you venture back and comment at will, add suggestions, volunteer to post yourself or remind me about something going on in town or in real estate that I might have missed. This is an extension of the website OshkoshNeighborhoods.com. Please join us here often.
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