Tiffany Schrader, Duffy Realty’s Customer Support Team Leader is having a girl. Due in late October, we want you to know that we are expecting Samantha Schrader to take work at Duffy Realty someday. Samantha will be the first child of the Schraders and I think she will be spoiled 
!
Next time you talk to Tiffany – give her a CONGRATULATIONS!
Yes, once again, Rhonda Duffy and Duffy Realty has been awarded the prestigous Online Marketing Excellence Award from Realtor.com.
Thank you for allowing us to show off your property!
We can not take up to 16 photos of your home. And, please use this opportunity to update your brown grass pictures to green grass photos.
Follow the instructions on www.TipsandForms.com to send us more photos.
If you need our on-staff stager to talk to you about your home, write us an email and we will have her call you.
With the reluctancy of the buyers out there we feel that it may be better if we talk to them to tell them about all the great financing and other options for purchase out there. So, August 1st we will be disabling all the remaining audio tour signs. Please take your audio tour sign off of your sign.
Another option to have people call you is to make a sign rider stating:
Owner and your phone number. Sign companies can make this for you for around $10.00.
You can now add up to 2500! characters to your listing on Realtor.com.
Go to http://www.tipsandforms.com/justlisted.html and start writing!
One of the “magical” tools that agents have is the access to set up an email system called a Gateway for clients. Gateways have been favored by both buyers and sellers in the past as a way to look for potential properties to purchase as well as competition that comes on the market. Gateways are traditionally set up within the Multiple Listing Service and emailed directly to the client.
The way that Gateways work is that the searches can be customized to be as broad or narrow as you like. They can be as broad as a city and a price range, or as specific to also contain four or five plus features that are important to buyers and sellers.
Even if a buyer has a home to sell first, Gateways are a great tool to narrow down subdivisions and areas that best fit the buyers needs. That way when the contract does come in and the seller now has thirty days to find a new place, the core of the search has already been done. This makes it much easier for the seller when it comes to the due-diligence of finding their next home.
We often hear of sellers that keep there eye on one property waiting to pounce once they go under contract.
Another reason Gateways appeal to sellers is to see what their competition on the market looks like. If a property that would normally be considered competition drops their price or makes a change the client will get an instant email with a link to that listing. This also happens whenever a new property comes on the market.
Gateways are now easier than ever to set up and Duffy Realty has developed a feature where a buyer or seller can set up their own Gateways through the link below:
http://www.stretcher.com
Increase your home’s square footage today with outdoor living space.
First check out the views looking out and make sure you have easy access to get there whether or not it’s physically connected to the house. You’ll want to erase the fact that you’re going outside.
Define the outdoor room/space by the activity that will take place in it….entertaining, family dining, playing games, or reading. It should be functional and engaging.
Mixing fire & water are hot elements today. Water softens the environment and gently reflects its surroundings and gives a small space grandeur. It also dampens unwanted noise such as auto traffic. There’s many options for any pocketbook. Even tabletop fountains work well.
The fire element is more social. People tend to gather around it as they did in Neanderthal times. It becomes a focal point at night. Chimineas are rather inexpensive and quite decorative.
Always add a potted red geranium to an outdoor table for instant wow or bring in a potted hyacinth for instant fragrance.
Even if you don’t have any outdoor space, i.e., patio,deck,balcony,or yard add a mirror to the wall adjacent to a window to reflect light. Instant space!
Entice those buyers!
‘til next month
Best,
Janet Horodysky
Duffy Realty