Real estate professionals have so much to gain from using social media tools, and coming late to the Twitter game may mean losing out on opportunities.

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Joe Celentano, a dear old friend of mine, became a real estate agent in Connecticut many years ago after a long career in the restaurant industry.  He’d had enough of that – the hassle, the expense, the 24/7 worry.  Real estate is not without worry, of course, but the reward he feels when he helps a family find a home they love is worth it for him.

If I hadn’t stumbled into a relationship with an agent here in Los [...]

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(If I saved every realtor notepad I have been given, I would never need one more sheet of paper. Ever.)

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Last week I told you how I was about to go house hunting for the first time.  We only had about an hour, so Myrna the Realtor had a short list of four houses for us to see.  “They’re a bit out of your price range,” she warned me, “but I want you to get a sense of the neighborhoods that are in these school districts you’re interested in.”

I had checked out two of the properties in the MLS listings [...]

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One thing that always confused me when thinking about home selling/buying was the overlapping nature of the job.  How do you buy a house if you haven’t sold the one you live in?  How do you sell your house if you haven’t already lined up one to buy?

It is that worry that made me hesitate to start looking at homes with Myrna.  We met her several months ago, and our first date to go out and physically look at listings [...]

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