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Good morning,
I hope this message finds you well. My name is [TYPICAL AGENT], and I’m a real estate agent in Melbourne.
I pride myself on my professionalism, attention to detail, and commitment to providing the best possible service to my clients. We have good quality Asian clients ready to buy at competitive high prices…

Imagine the following scenario: You list your home for sale. You know it’s worth around $1.5 million. But you’re hoping for more. A few hours after you sign-up, the agent brings some prospective buyers. As they view your home, you hear them gasping in delight. They love your home…

In your eagerness to sell your home, be careful not to make a mistake most home sellers make.Be sure to protect yourself. Thousands of sellers every month are in a worse position than if they had never placed their home for sale. They don’t sell, so they get no money. On the contrary, they lose thousands…

This is a true story. Many years ago – in the first year of opening my real estate office – I mailed Christmas Cards to all agents in my area. I have always considered Christmas a special time. By sending cards to competitors, I was not being facetious. I was genuinely wishing them happiness…

You can’t eat money. I know, I tried. Over the years, at some of my talks, I demonstrated how people look at money the wrong way. I grabbed a hundred-dollar note and began to chew. I never swallowed. I was just making a point to my audience…

elling a family home is one of the most stressful events in life. The stress compounds if the reason for selling is another stressful event. Such as financial stress. After nine straight rate increases, thousands of home-owners are in financial stress…

If you’re selling your home, the first thing you’ll likely hear right now is that “the market is bad”. Or that “prices have dropped”. And who will give you that sad and bad news? Probably a real estate agent, that’s who…

A few years ago, I got the best compliment of my life. My wife said that I never let her down. I beamed with pride. I thought of Emerson’s words about success being: “winning the respect of intelligent people and appreciation of honest critics.”…

If home sellers and buyers were better informed about real estate, they’d get a much better result when they sell or buy real estate. There are so many ‘secrets’ in the real estate world – information that’s deliberately hidden from consumers or information they fail to discover because most consumers fail to do much research…

Australian home-sellers are the most bluffed in the world. The real estate industry has done a massive con job – convincing you, the home-owners, that, when you sell your home, you need a real estate agent. That’s not true. Not even close. Indeed, the opposite is likely true…