No matter if you’re a broker or an individual agent, you want to know how to get the most success from yourself or your team. Agents and brokers can either blend into the crowd with every other agent and team, or stand out by providing an excellent process and presentation. Focus your energy on deeper aspects of selling for maximum results.

Starting today, the $25 billion Robo-Signing (or Foreclosure) settlement will begin to go into effect. The settlement, put together between the US government and five major banks (Ally Financial Inc/GMAC Mortgage, Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo), is designed to help relieve many borrowers who are either struggling to make payments, owe more than their home is worth or have already lost their home to foreclosure.

Buying a home is one of the biggest purchases of your client’s life, and they want to be cautious that they don’t make any mistakes that they’ll regret later on. Here are the top four most common mistakes made when buying a home, along with tips on how to prevent your clients from doing them or how to recover if they have already made them!

Contrary to popular belief, a home buyer can have two VA loans.
They may want two VA loans if they are moving and not selling their current home, or would like to buy a new home without selling their current home.
The calculation to find out if you can have two VA loans can be a little confusing.  Here are the steps to follow when figuring out if your buyer can have two VA loans:

Order Their Certificate of Eligibility – your mortgage lender can do this.  It requires the veteran to provide …

Today’s guest contributor is professional writer, blogger and digital entrepreneur, Men With Pens‘ James Chartrand. The following article was originally published on JonathanFields.com.

Whether you are just starting to blog or have been doing it for some time, we all need topics to blog about. Maybe you don’t know where to start or have hit blogger’s “writer’s block”. No matter what the reason is, here are 25 ideas for blog topics.
Keep in mind that the majority of these topics are not directly real estate-related.  I chose topics with a uniquely local angle, so that as agents, you can always show your clients not only that you are a part of the community, but …

Most Realtors believe that Home Staging works but are hesitant to suggest staging to their clients. Sometimes it is because they are afraid of suggesting the seller spend more money preparing the house for sale, some do not want to suggest staging for fear of offending them. Still others believe the house they’ve listed is too small to make home staging practical. The fact is; it is a rare house that would not benefit from staging.

In the market we are in, every good Realtor is looking for an opportunity to sell their listings quickly. Your listing qualifying for 0% down payment will help do this for you.

By Kathy Strader
Most people are surprised to learn that the phrase “home staging” is not a decorating term, but a term used within the real estate industry. Barb Schwarz was a licensed and active real estate agent when she coined the term. She knew decorating was about the homeowner’s taste; home staging is done solely to appeal to homebuyers.