St. Louis has so many wonderful places to explore. I’ve been working on snapping pictures across town to post to my community housing market report pages and my flickr account. Actually, I started taking the pictures because I needed some good local images for this website, but in the process, I discovered a new hobby. [...]
by Karen Goodman on July 19, 2009
in Sellers
The Call Every Agent Wants to Get A couple of weeks ago I got the phone call that every Realtor using social media (such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) wants to get. I answered the phone and Jenny opened with “Hello, I follow you on Twitter.” It turns out that Jenny had her condo for sale [...]
by Karen Goodman on July 18, 2009
in Sellers
It amazes me that so many real estate agents think that all they need to do to market their listings is to put the home on the MLS. Though most buyers are working with a real estate agent when they are ready to buy a home, the vast majority of them continue looking on public [...]
One of my pet peeves is that St. Louis gets a unjustified bad rap every time the Morgan Quitno Press publishes their annual crime rate rankings. Each year when the reports come out stating that St. Louis has one of the highest crime rates in the country, the local media reminds everyone that the statistics [...]
I’ve written before about my business philosophy of treating my clients as if they were family. Sometimes that means that I need to tell a buyer to walk away from a bad purchase and sometimes it means I tell a seller to become a landlord rather than taking a huge loss by selling. Renting Instead [...]
by Karen Goodman on February 11, 2009
in Buyers
Safety and crime rates top the list of important factors for most buyers when they are trying to decide where they want to buy their new home. Buyers that are moving to an unfamiliar area or a new city often ask their real estate agent if the neighborhood is “safe”. Unfortunately, that’s a tough question [...]