http://vrea.com/melissadougherty Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:41:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Getting a client ready to stage their home is a lot of work. First you have to help them see the advantage of staging their home. Then you have to help them plan to stage their home. In order to help a client see the advantage of staging their ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/04/20/staging-a-home-with-your-seller/ As all Realtors® know listing a property and getting it noticed has seen different venues of advertising. Long ago it was the newspaper and still is a viable way of listing properties. Then came the real estate magazines with eye appealing photos and very efficient captions. The ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/04/09/listing-has-come-up-in-the-tech-world/ Tonight was the conference call with Ralph Roberts about how important Virtual Assistants are to the Real Estate World.  Ralph may not have been there in person but he was well represented by Lois, his right hand woman, and Kandra, his invisible right hand woman.  These two woman did a ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/03/26/explode-your-business-through-the-use-of-a-virtual-assistant/ http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/03/26/18/ Being born Scotch-Irish and marrying in to an Irish family, St. Patrick’s Day is really a great day of celebration. I love the parades, the food and wearing the GREEN! So for those of you who are not part of the largest ethnic group in the USA, just ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/03/16/happy-st-patricks-day/ Yesterday it was announced that a major sub-prime lender, New Century, is no longer going to be on the stock market ticker tape. That has the bond market and stock market scratching their heads as to where and what now. How does that effect the home buying industry? ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/03/14/2007-housing-market/ In the series “Real Estate Agents:  The Primary Source of Information on Home Purchase”, we have discussed Residential, Employment and Credit Histories.  We also looked at how Assets play into your clients’ ability to achieving a mortgage.  Now, in this last part we are going to look at some miscellaneous ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/03/12/14/ In the February 26,2007 issue of Realtor® Magazine Online this article appeared:  Affluent Buyers Want Privacy  As the article progresses, it talks about new money, not inherited money and how it is influencing the purchase of real estate.  The article also talks about what these affluent clients require from their real estate ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/02/27/can-you-keep-a-secret/ Ok, we have covered  Residential, Employment and Credit Histories.  Isn’t it nice to have some information that will help your home buyers with their questions?  How do you think you will look in their eyes?  What kind of confidence do you think you have built with your buyers on their ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/02/27/real-estate-agents-the-primary-source-of-information-on-home-purchase-part-iv/ We have looked at Residential History and Employment/Income History.  The next installment is one of the most asked about and worried about when purchasing a home.....Credit History.  So without further delay let's just jump right in and tackle it.  Once again some of this is very simple and straight forward ... http://vrea.com/melissadougherty/2007/02/23/real-estate-agents-the-primary-source-of-information-on-home-purchase-part-iii/