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March 6, 2015

Heart of Darkness: angels and demons

A few days after my first strange encounter with Eris Roberts, the mysterious agent who contacted my desk to share her zeal and worry for her broker, Frank Needler, I found the following missive in my mailbox. After multiple unsuccessful attempts to contact Roberts and ask her when she received this…
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WFG News
March 5, 2015

Ann Bailey a leader in more ways than one

Ann Bailey has a 20-year history as an admired industry leader helping brokers, franchises and online companies develop and perfect their strategies and execute better. She came up through the MLS side of the business and continues to lead the way for many. What most people do not know about…
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WFG News
March 5, 2015

Relying on your brokerage for lead generation? You’re doing it wrong

Every time I hear about lead generation, I want to throw up. Let’s be honest: lead generation is not the next big thing in this business. I understand that a lot of people will disagree with me, and that’s OK. But if you think your brokerage needs to feed you…
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WFG News
March 5, 2015

Elizabeth Ann Stribling-Kivlan on her stint in culinary school and following in her mother’s footsteps

Elizabeth Ann Stribling-Kivlan is the president of Stribling & Associates. Describe what you do in one sentence: I oversee the daily brokerage of Stribling & Associates, whether that be helping to negotiate, hiring a new agent or mediate a potential issue. Age: 35 Degree, school: College of the Holy Cross, B.A. in theology…
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WFG News
March 5, 2015

What’s on your plate (and the back burner) when you start your own real estate brokerage

Last week, I opened my own brokerage. I like to think of it as the most independent independent brokerage around, and instead of naming it something cute and witty, I went with Boardman Realty. The day after I opened my new company, I decided I had made a big mistake…
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WFG News
March 4, 2015

13 tips on how to be a street-smart and safe real estate agent

I have been part of the real estate industry for many years, both in Canada and now in France, and I have many friends and family who are working or have worked in the industry. As an agent, I know we take risks in our daily work, and I was…
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WFG News
March 4, 2015

3 ‘Ms’ of building an indie real estate brokerage

My husband and I founded Lanier Property Group three years ago with the (admittedly audacious) vision of changing the real estate industry for both our agents and our clients. We wanted to build a place to work that was so awesome that it would make Mondays our favorite day of…
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WFG News
March 3, 2015

You tell us: Does carrying a gun make your job safer?

(function () { var opst = document.createElement(‘script’); var os_host = document.location.protocol == “https:” ? “https:” : “http:”; opst.type = ‘text/javascript'; opst.async = true; opst.src = os_host + ‘//’ + ‘www.opinionstage.com/polls/2256334/embed.js'; (document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’) || document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)).appendChild(opst); }()); Realtor Magazine’s Graham Wood today takes a deep dive into a highly charged topic: whether it’s…
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WFG News
March 3, 2015

Go figure: hottest ZIP codes for house flipping, cities with highest turnover and more

Where’s the inventory?! Demands, demands, demands Too flippin’ much Have data you’d like to see featured here? Email contributors@inman.com. The post Go figure: hottest ZIP codes for house flipping, cities with highest turnover and more appeared first on WFG National Title Insurance Company.
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WFG News
March 2, 2015

Less than half of agents say their broker has safety procedures

More than half of the nation’s Realtors say their brokerages don’t have safety procedures in place to help protect them from the dangers of meeting strangers in empty houses — or that if they do have such procedures, they don’t know what they are. That’s according to a survey by…
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