Real Estate Blog

Real estate is all about relationships and if you have recently started in the business, it should be easy to keep up with all of your past clients but as your clients grow and you get busier, it becomes harder to maintain these relationships. Before you get to the point where you can’t keep up […]

I am just loving this spring weather.  I also have just listed my home and while I was preparing to put it on the market I was organizing closets, removing things from the home, cleaning and so much more I thought about what we should be doing to cleanup our business drivers, systems, programs and […]

When you go on listing appointments, it is very likely you will encounter sellers that really don’t know what it takes to sell a home. From the pre-listing phase, the listing term to closing and everything in between, sellers need your guidance. Face it, you are selling your service as an agent and most sellers […]

At the end of every day when you sit down to think about what you accomplished (and what you may need to move to the next day’s to do list), do you wonder if you will ever get it all done? For most of us, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish […]

Do you get that warm fuzzy feeling when you have an executed contract in hand and ready to go into the closing phase? Or, do you get a little excited then panic because you are now responsible for managing the contract? Let me share a little story with you on how we helped an agent […]

As the new year approaches and you are setting goals and trying to ensure you have the perfect systems in place to reach those goals, have you begun to identify areas that still need work or that you don’t have time to handle? Don’t let that stress you out. Kim Hughes and Company has an […]

It can be hard to be really productive in real estate on many days because so often your schedule is dictated by the needs of your clients. While you must allow this to some disagree if you want to be successful, you must figure out a way to be productive and still be responsive to […]

It’s that time of year that we all stat thinking about what we are thankful for. Let’s start with the obvious mentions like family, friends, food, a job, place to live and all the basics. Those are great choices but isn’t there so much more to life than saying you are thankful for all of […]

As a real estate agent, you likely have an office in your home or a brick and mortar, but your car more than likely serves as your mobile office on many occasions. Since that is the case, your car needs to be setup and equipped with the tools you will need most often. There are […]

The end of the year is quickly approaching and that means you are well into the 2018 tax year and should have completed your bookkeeping at least through the mid-year point. Or are you one of the many agents that scrambles each Spring or files for an extension because you didn’t take the time to […]

It’s hard to believe the year is more than half over and fourth quarter is right around the corner. If you are like most people, you probably started the year off with some goals that you hoped to accomplish this year. Many of your goals were probably business related but you probably had some personal […]