Posts Tagged ‘real estate’

My Green Parachute

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Just so all of you know what is going on around here!

My Green Parachute Names Jackson Minnesota Designated Broker

My Green Parachute, the real estate referral and residual model for the future, launches business in Minnesota with the announcement of a Designated State Broker, Susan Jackson.

 

St. Paul, MN September 1, 2009 – My Green Parachute, a cutting edge real estate referral and residual business, has named Susan Jackson of Northfield, Minnesota their Designated State Broker for Minnesota. My Green Parachute is a unique real estate model for the future based in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. My Green Parachute Founder and CEO, Carolyn Kindley-Single, expressed excitement at Jackson joining the company; “Susan has a long and successful history in the Real Estate and Home Ownership arena and is well suited to making My Green Parachute a huge success for us in Minnesota”.

 

My Green Parachute helps former and current real estate agents and brokers build business by cooperating to capture business that formerly only benefitted agents actively selling. The model for My Green Parachute allows agents who are licensed but no longer actively selling to continue earning commissions from past and even new clientele. Whether the agents are retiring or transitioning to a new industry or career, they currently would leave any past clients or opportunities for future commissions behind.

 

With My Green Parachute, these agents now with the title Professional Real Estate Referral Agents, have their client base registered with them and actively marketed on their behalf. If they are contacted for real estate needs, or run across someone who has real estate needs in their daily life, the formerly active agent can refer them into the My Green Parachute system. The Professional Referral Agents then benefit from any commission that is earned from the real estate transactions for these clients.

 

The referrals are handled by Active Field Agents, Real Estate Agents who are actively selling and may build their own teams of Referral Agents for the benefit of both agents. This new model allows agents who have long served customers in achieving home ownership the ability to continue that relationship in the future by getting their clients top notch service and earning themselves residual income from their past successes.

 

Kindley-Single noted that real estate was formerly a business with “No Pension plans. No Stock Options. No Residual Income. If you slow down or stop working…there goes the money! With My Green Parachute, that no longer needs to be the case.” Jackson is also enthusiastic to start helping Minnesota agents benefit from their past, and current, work adding: “My Green Parachute allows these hard-working agents and brokers the opportunity to retire or leave the business with some structure in place to protect all the hard work, time, and investments they have made

 

My Green Parachute welcomes immediate calls and e-mails from interested former and current agents who believe they can benefit from this model as they wind down, or grow, their real estate business.

 

About My Green Parachute:

In 2006, Carolyn Kindley-Single wondered why the amount of time, energy, and money spent by both new and experienced brokers and agents in the real estate business was virtually lost when they left the business? Carolyn imagined there must be a way for everyone involved to benefit from a program that captured real estate transactions at the source. So after almost three years of researching state real estate commission requirements, real estate laws, solid operational procedures, and cutting edge technology, My Green Parachute is launching throughout the country.

 

Contact:

Susan Jackson, Minnesota Designated State Broker

My Green Parachute MN

612-774-9200

http://www.mygreenparachute.com

How To Get 23 Offers On Your Property

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

I’ve said it before and I will say it again here and now:  There is only ONE reason a property does not sell:  Price.

If it’s a great property and priced accordingly, it will sell in a reasonable amount of time in a normal market.  If it’s a junky property, then it should be priced as a junky price.  Get it?  All the sellers in the world can be shown by their professional REALTOR all the data at their disposal and still listen to their neighbor/Mom/friend/whomever who says “I think you should start at a little higher price just to see if you can get it.”  Based on what????  Their Magic 8 Ball?

Best way to kill interest in your property is to price it above what the market says it is worth.  No one is interested!  Why do you think that most Tuesdays real estate brokers and agents serve coffee, donuts, pasta, subs, any food to get other real estate agents into their listings for an Agent Open House?  They do it to expose the property to the professional market but also to get validation that the Seller is asking a little too much for a property.

If you’re going to hire a REALTOR to sell your house, and I always think you should, then hire one you trsut and listen to them.  You’re paying them to give you expert and professional advice and guidance NOT to listen to you like a sheep and do what your uneducated advisors ‘think’ is the right thing!

So, how do you get 23 offers on your property?  1) You wait for a market like the one we have now: Anything structurally solid and with fairly new mechanicals (furnace, roof plumbing, electric) is in very high demand.  2) You look at what the data from neighborhood sales and listings say the house will most likely sell for.  3) You price it at least $10,000 less than that market data reflects.  4) You wait for the offer frenzy.

Of course, thie relies on the fact that you actually have all of those circumstances.  For those of you who think I’m making this up, there’s a house for sale right now that one of my buyers is considering and when I called to check on status, the agent said: “We have 23 offers already in and are taking offers until Noon tomorrow”.  Cool, huh?  A Seller’s dream come true.

All of the above circumstances apply right this moment and I can bet that this Seller will get at least $10,000 OVER their asking price and the Buyer will be happy to pay it.  Why?  Because it is priced lower than everything else in the area and will sell for a very reasonable price at or above where the rest of the market is in that neighborhood.

So, remember: The number one reason a house doesn’t sell is PRICE.  Listen to the professionals in your market and let them help you price your house attractively to get as many people in as possible in a very short time.  After all, you do want to sell your house in a timely manner, right?

RW