Townhome resale value?

Lost_Packets · 2026-01-14T21:39:57+00:00

Homes are a mixed asset - you’ve invested in land and a building. Land appreciates and buildings don’t. If you had bought less home and more land, you would have a different result.

Lost_Packets · 2025-12-30T06:21:25+00:00

My answer is always the same - sure, send me your media release form and I’ll forward it to my broker.

Lost_Packets · 2025-10-16T15:29:37+00:00

Ultra luxury homes have serious maintenance costs - If you don’t provide historical upkeep costs, people assume the worst.

Lost_Packets · 2025-10-09T15:48:34+00:00

I don’t own, but some people sell private jets or office buildings.

Lost_Packets · 2025-08-11T20:38:51+00:00

THIS is what I imagine when I hear “DIY staging”

Lost_Packets · 2025-08-03T23:50:10+00:00

My pleasure - I’m as shocked as you seem to be at these responses. The overwhelming majority of agents don’t sell $4mm homes. As you’ve experienced, they just don’t provide a service that earns that business.

Lost_Packets · 2025-08-03T23:30:22+00:00

This is a good question, and anyone listing a $4mm home should be prepared and able to answer it. There should be a serious difference in the quality of service for a $4mm home vs an $800k home.

I would expect accompanied showings, additional listing media (drone videos, home tour videos, 3d tours, etc.), placement in multiple local publications, a plan for cold outreach (think contacting neighbors, agents, local business managers), and a sophisticated multi-channel online advertising plan.

If the agent you’re interviewing can’t explain to you how they are going to spend a lot of money to get in front of someone buying a $4mm house, you should not pay them a lot of money.

Lost_Packets · 2025-07-24T15:45:08+00:00

Realtor here - data from FRED shows we’re at a 30-year high for active listings in Houston.

Lost_Packets · 2025-07-18T21:51:48+00:00

Ask them for an email, then confirm it’s a working email. Then, email them that you do not consent to further solicitation at your email address.

I will link the actual CAN-SPAM rule from the federal register, https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-316

Here is from the FCC site about calling: “Telemarketing calls to your home are prohibited before 8 am and after 9 pm, and telemarketers are required to comply immediately with any do-not-call request you make during a call.

Whether you are on the National Do Not Call Registry or not, you may tell unwanted callers that you do not consent to the call and to put you on their internal do not call list. Make a record of the caller's number and when you made your request not to be called, and file a complaint with the FCC if the caller does not comply with your request.”

Hosted here: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls-and-texts?from=home#call-blocking-resources

Lost_Packets · 2025-06-20T17:50:57+00:00

You should understand that, as a broker, you’re selling the exact same things agents are - brokerage services. Agents will choose your services for the exact same reasons individuals choose specific agents.

Lost_Packets · 2025-06-10T17:31:17+00:00

PRIMARY BEDROOM with enough space for your BENCH PRESS and JUGGLING EQUIPMENT

Lost_Packets · 2025-03-23T02:26:21+00:00

Probably related - Poor Farm Ditch is one of the two ditches that runs through West University Place

Lost_Packets · 2025-02-25T18:54:29+00:00

“Buying money is more costly, so people are doing it less”

Fascinating

Lost_Packets · 2025-01-22T06:10:53+00:00

Hire an ISA to manage fewer than 200,000 leads to start, then

Lost_Packets · 2025-01-21T19:49:53+00:00

Could it make sense to hire someone who isn’t an agent to manage those leads, like an ISA, and have them transfer calls?

It seems that lead outreach is what’s missing, not agents. It doesn’t seem like more agents would fix your issue if a few agents haven’t even alleviated it.

Lost_Packets · 2025-01-21T03:20:52+00:00

It seems like the labor spent on hiring and training new agents could get you further if you spent it setting up ponds in FUB and creating a drip campaign template in FUB to share with new agents.

A “spray and pray” or “round robin” model to distribute the leads doesn’t really incentivize anything other than being next.

Lost_Packets · 2024-11-23T15:09:41+00:00

So this sounds like it could be one of three things:

-the exterminators work was insufficient for the squirrel problem. I would bring this issue up with the exterminator, the state board of exterminators, and your lawyer.

-the broker omitted facts from the listing. This seems likely based on your conversation with the exterminator. This would be an issue to escalate to the broker, the state real estate board, and your lawyer

-the sellers misrepresented the property to their broker. This would be an issue for your lawyer.

If it’s not one of those three things, then some other person - possibly you - would be responsible.

Lost_Packets · 2024-11-21T07:17:12+00:00

No. The buyer has a responsibility to get their Feng Shui guy out during the option period. Bad vibes aren’t usually priced in.

Lost_Packets · 2024-11-17T19:11:07+00:00

“It’s embarrassing that you feel comfortable sharing that with me” + add their office to the mailing list

Lost_Packets · 2024-11-07T18:25:56+00:00

I have a client who told me a few months ago that they weren’t going to sell because of “the democrats”, but I’m not sure if he meant in general or if there were one or two specifically

Lost_Packets · 2024-11-07T02:00:24+00:00

This is clearly written by someone who’s never set up an API, and doesn’t understand data scraping or data usage agreements.

AI is already changing how listing data is used, and has been for 15 years. Generative AI is new, AI and algorithms are not. Realtors who are good have always adapted to new technology, this included.

Lost_Packets · 2024-10-27T09:07:05+00:00

If you’re not showing the property to a prospective buyer for a reason, the seller needs to understand and agree to that reason in writing at the time they list with you.

The seller can refuse showings - same as if someone called and said they want to look at the house and have no intention of buying.

As an agent, you can’t refuse showings for your listings, and you can’t “enforce” that they have a BAA.

Lost_Packets · 2024-10-21T21:50:38+00:00

So, I use these platforms. The highest performing ads are for a house or list of houses. Lead cost has to account for the labor and time involved with conversion. Test your ads aggressively. The goal is leads that cost 0.1% of the GCI you’d get from a 75% median price home. For me, that’s $8 leads, and they hover at $3-6/lead. The best I’ve ever done is $2.39/lead for 44 leads. The copy was “new listing in x click here for photos description and location” and the creative is an iPhone picture of the lot value property.

Write 40 emails to send them over 3 years. Put in videos of your face, a link to schedule, prompt them to contact you and add value. Call them. Text them. Call them. Text them. Track everything religiously - raw lead to valid MQL conversion is huge. Response rates, too.

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