Sellers
Pursuing an E-Pro designation launched me into harnessing the power of Internet Marketing. I combine innovation, creativity and the
personal touch for my clients. The relationship always comes first. Creating a Property Address dot com is one of the innovative approaches used to make your home stand out from the crowd.
. What is Your Customer Looking For?
Think like a client for a moment? What runs through your mind? What is your client looking for? In the high desert we who sell real estate in Apple Valley, Hesperia, Victorville are always looking for a way to hone our customer serving skills.
Here are some suggestions, perhaps a little abstract but I believe to be true about human nature and motivation.
How will I look to others? Will it raise my Status? What will it do for my Social Standing? Who would be the first person that I would like to show this home to impress them with looks, features, savings or simply for approval.
Money!! Either it has to make me money or save me money! It is economical. Where are the utility bills? Is it a energy saving home? Is it a green home? Does it have a higher seer ratings? Does it have solar heating? A wood Burning stove with a blower? Is the yard drought resistant and water saving?
Time! How much time am I spending in the yard or on maintenance? How much time cleaning?
New and Learning! Is there something about this home that is cutting edge in Technology? Can I learn a better method?
Security! Security Doors, ADP or Brinks Motion Sensors, Walls, Wrought Iron, Gates, Security Guard, Motion sensors lights on the exterior. Is the community Safe? What are the schools like?
Work! Is it user friendly, has it been thought out? Where are the trash cans? Where is the garage and the entry door?
Fun! Figure this one for yourself.
Easy! That word says it all.
Comfort! This is the spa word. But comfort comes in so many different flavors and tastes. So does the home bring comfort?
There are many other features and benefits clients look for. I feel these are among the top. For more indepth look check out Abraham Maslow and the hierarchy of needs.
Thanks For Reading Val
Exit Desert Ocean Realty Victorville Ca
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Have you heard about Snagit?
I picked this awesome program from a workshop I attended at the Victorville MLS. It was one of those things that was mentioned once and then gone. www.snagit.com
I went to my Apple Valley home office and used the thirty day trail. Wow! This program allows me to copy what I am looking at on the screen. I can print it for my client. I can print how many times their site has been hit and use that to help with price reductions.
I go on a listing presentation for an Apple Valley home. They bring up Zillow. I pull out the Snagit copied page of the home evaluation from www.Zillow.com Then I show them WWW.Eppraisal.com and www.RealEstateABC.com valuations. (if I think it is a hard case I might even pull www.homegain.com or some other valuation)
Then I show them my comps with titles inserted on the pages: Apple Valley Expired's: Tested the Market and failed
Active: Apple Valley Testing the Market Unproven. Sold; Apple Valley Market Proven and Priced Right. "So do you want to be first in the market or do you want your home on the market for a long time?
Well after thirty day trial, I was convinced. This is a tool and is easy to use and allows me to show in a very good way a third party endorsement. and Shows the sources of my knowledge and what is common knowledge to the client who is Internet savvy or interested.
So, I bought Snagit, But first I looked for a Promotional Code. I love saving money! So guess what I discovered while I was looking for a Promotional Code. That's right a ten dollar word SNUG. I think that you can use it. But if you don't Snagit is worth the price, however First start with the trial and see if you like it.
Thanks for Reading, Val Exit Desert Ocean Realty Victorville
World Vision is Awesome
What Does Your Agent Want?
Three Things come to mind that each and every agents wants. And I suppose that if you are a broker and you keep this coming you will keep your agents. this Stuff works here in the High Desert, Victorville, Hesperia, Apple valley.
Money: This is a taken for granted. However, it is so important. If you agent is going between pay checks and nothing is happening, no closing. You will do him/her a favor by seeking out more than one real estate related way of making money. With nod's, you can encourage them to do the appraisal/bank value for selling the property. Once they have a reputation, this usually pays about $100 a CMA. Or there is nortory/loan signing. And there are banks that will hire you to input information on your client and pay you part of the proceeds for doing so. Finally, my favorite, you can belong to a Franchise like Exit , Exit Desert Ocean Realty and get paid from the broker for having sponsored. 10% of the commission amount is many times between 500 and 1500 dollars. That really helps over the hump.
Security: Every Agent wants and longs for security. Don't change things without letting them know. The stock in trade of an agent and part of their security is the control of knowledge and being let in on the inside of knowledge. BUT, even more important is training, Training is the only real security that an agent has. To perform at a high level, you must train at a high level. Training in a sales profession equals security.
Finally: What does your agent want? Recognition, Tell their story or better yet let them tell it in front of a group. Awards, rewards go a long way. Some agents will simply do more because they will get a Starbucks Card. Other agents want the praise of their peers. Some agents want to see their name on the certificate. They were number one.
That is what your agents need, and I would tell you the other three secrets of motivating agents to do the impossible: encourage
Then Encourage and then encourage some more and then start over with more encouragement.
Val Exit Desert Ocean Realty, Victorville Ca
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Compare This Spring Valley Lake Home For Beauty, Savings
Val Rensink | Exit Desert Ocean Realty | email this seller | 760 985 6005
13163 Schooner Dr, Victorville, CA send this to a friend
Compare this Beautiful Home, Professional Landscaping, Move in Condition, Will Save you money everything in place now print this page
3 Bdrm Single Family House offered at $379,999
Year Built 1996
Sq Footage 1,964
Bedrooms 3
Bathrooms 3 full, 0 partial
Floors 1
Parking 2 Car garage
Lot Size 9,200 sqft
HOA/Maint $56 per month
DESCRIPTION
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Pre Stubed for patio Misters, Surround Sound, Recessed entertainment center, Tile Throughout the Traffic Areas of Home. Two Suites, one the master with jetted tub, walk in closet, the other a In-law quarters. This home is ready for you to move in and will save you time and money
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Seller contact info:
Val Rensink
Exit Desert Ocean Realty
760 985 6005
For sale by agent/broker
Traditional, Beautiful Apple Valley Home
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Val Rensink | Exit Desert Ocean Realty | email this seller | 760 985 6005
21510 Pine Ridge Ave, Apple Valley, CA send this to a friend
You Deserve This Beautiful Home Move in Conditi0n. Easy Landscaping print this page
3 Bdrm Single Family House offered at $299,900
Year Built 1953
Sq Footage 2,690
Bedrooms 3
Bathrooms 2 full, 0 partial
Floors Unspecified
Parking 4+ Car garage
Lot Size 43,750 sqft
HOA/Maint $0 per month
DESCRIPTION
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Three Patios, Cook's Kitchen, Skylight, Atrium,
Great Split floorplan, Large yard, fully fenced, Three Car Garage, Plenty of Storage, Seperate Barn-park two more cars or open a craft business.Beyond this being a great home you deserve a great location and a great neighborhood. Therefore here are a number of Reasons to live in Apple Valley
Reason #1 The Cost of Living. Plain and Simple you can buy a lot of house for less money than most anywhere else connected to the Riverside, San Bernardino,Los Angeles area. We have plenty of jobs here and more coming to the general area. Jobs= a better economy.
Reason #2 The Quality of Air. Yes it is better on this side of the Cajon Pass. Winds blow. The smog just doesn't come up here as much. You feel better and you breathe better when you aren't fighting air toxins. You skin looks better and you can run the mile in better time.
Reason #3 Your Children. We have a varity of Schools Public and Private. We have Charter schools. We have teachers who want to live here. We have a tax base that is growing and we are attracting new businesses like super WalMart, Super Target, Starbucks, Loews, Home Depot as well as medical centers.
Reason #4 Location and Recreation. Apple Valley is located in Southern California's High Desert region and is part of the Victor Valley in the county of San Bernardino. We are within a 30-minute drive of mountain ski resort or desert hiking area. A two-hour drive puts you at the beach or Disneyland, Los Angeles, Hollywood or Palm Springs. Off roading is in the area. You can Visit a Ghost towns or Camp Kady.
Reason #5 More Scenery. Apple Valley has Wonder Views. A light rain invites a dusting of snow on the mountains. When the desert is in bloom there is a quality of beauty that is delicate and charming. All in all there is more beauty in Apple Valley for you and your family to discover.
Reason# 6 The Economy of Apple Valley is going to get better. That is not to say that it is bad now, But it is all looking up. Timing is important and more money will change hands in this downturn market than you can imagine.
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Seller contact info:
Val Rensink
Exit Desert Ocean Realty
760 985 6005
For sale by agent/broker
Barstow,ca
30 agents and six cars a forty minute travel and look at homes in Barstow. But more important was the Visit with Exit Desert Ocean Realty Russ Cahil. Russ has lived in Barstow for some time and he has sold new mobile homes and now does resales.
He showed us a zoning map of Barstow. Barstow is annexing county land. Barstow is building. In the next few years sleepy little Barstow will double its population.
Barstow has the best performing MacDonald's of anywhere in the nation.
If you want some pictures of Barstow take a look at local-ism.
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Val Exit Desert Ocean realty victorville Ca
Apple valley, Hesperia, Lucrene
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Insurance, Zoning, Loans-disclose, disclose, disclose
What would be your bigger concern? Getting Sued because insurance won't cover a non permitted use of buildings on a property. Or Getting Sued because if the authorities found out the current use it would violate a zoning issue and put tenants out of the property. Or the fact that the loan on the property is going to not be income property on a triplex but rental on a sfr?
The Home is an R-1 residential. The issue is the suitable use of the property. It is 2200 sq ft and.... has two other building all permited. Well permitted but not for current use. The one was built as a studio(read that as a non sleeping area) the other was built and permitted as a work shop.
These additional units on the property have their own gas meter and their own electrical meter. So the Utilities signed off and the permits(I haven't seen the permits) signed off on them.
So here is the real estate nightmare: the building burns down. Can it be built again? and to what standards and use?
Oh Well if you have read this far, Read just a little more. It is the story of two homes on one lot. The first home had termits and the second none. The first home was tented and the second not. The First home killed all the termits and the second killed the occupant because somehow someone didn't know that vents of the first home were connected to the second.
You never know, even when you think you know.
What's your Story?
Val Exit Desert Ocean Realty Victorville, Apple Valley, Hesperia
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Apple Valley Schools and Achieving Highest Accreditation
Apple Valley is a great place to live and it just got a little better.
My wife and daughter are both in the Apple Valley education system as teachers. So I hear things about WASC both good and bad. It is a tough standard to reach. It is one that takes time, united effort, vision and determination to succeed. So...
Apple Valley received an honor that only about 5% of the schools in the California school system enjoy. That is high!!
How do you get this award? A team of education from WASC and the California Department of Education come to your school and preform a three day site review. Part of what this accreditation is called is "Clear Six" which means that they do not have to have another review for six years.
So if you are thinking about moving to Apple Valley, come in the next six years while we have a good rating
Val Exit desert Ocean Realty
World Vision changes peoples lives.
Spring Valley Lake in Victorville a Unique High Desert community
Schooner just the name gives you the feeling that there is something nautical, something ocean about the place. Well there is it is a place by a manmade lake. It is a community of curbs and gutters and custom homes. It is a beautiful recreation house and beach and golf course. It is simply one of the best places to live for a lifestyle in the high desert.
Want to know more? Go to
www.12820rochester.com and look at the page on schooner
www.18484Dunkirk.com
www.20829-sitting-bull.com
www.13163schoonerdr.com
By the way take 2 moments and click and then comment. Thanks
Val Exit Desert Ocean Realty Victorville Cal
My Son Dan supports World Vision
Books in the Keller Williams Family.
I am an Exit Agent, Broker, Owner. I have some very respected friend in the Keller Williams office in my town. One of the things that I appreciate about them is their approach and interest in investing.
Three days ago, I bought and have read and am rereading the third book in the Millionaire series.
Love the Title Flip.
I can recommend this book to anything. agent or not, investor or not, general contractor or not. It is destined to be a classic in the real estate field.
Go buy it. Now!
Val Exit Desert Ocean Realty
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She's Like Mike Ferry
How to List and Sell Real Estate, by Danielle(danny) Kennedy. Produced by Thomson.
This weekend, I did a getaway. My wife and I went to the beach. AND BECAUSe we are both readers I dipped into Danielle Kennedy's Book. She is a Tom Hopkins like story. A challenge, new, pregnant and starting at real estate. The Book is full of Practical Advise. Like What do you say when... It gives gameplans and strategies for
FIZZBOS, FIZBEAUX, FIZZBOUGHS, PHISBOWS,
She has a Hyperlearning section wellworth the time and attention for you to get into.
She even has a section on what do you say in a contract, the wording and some suggestions for finding good wording by going through files that are part of your office.
Just a weekend read and perhaps several hours of study.
Val Exit Desert Ocean Realty Victorville
World Vision Rocks
Roofing and Richard Rossi and Pine Ridge
First of All This is a Commercial, an Advertisement, an Announcement, a Broadcast,a sound-byte, a reel Clip, Etc.
One of the listing under Exit Desert Ocean Realty Broker-ship needed a new roof. Not the whole thing but a significant part. Not considered a replacement but a fix. Almost half of the roof needed replacement. The roof had been fixed by the prior owner, however the roll had pulled up and the laying of some of the material didn't take into consideration the flow of water. The job required the removal of a 4'by 4' skylight. A corner that would stop up was cut and had new flashing put on it. 30 year shingles were used. There were a couple of crickets that needed some special attention.
What is most important. For all contractors Time is Money. However for Richard a Good Job is money. So when the day simply got to hot and the laying of the material would have caused future problems, he and his crew stopped.
Richards quotes seemed reasonable. Kind of like a Goldilocks story Not to much, not to little but Just Right
Although I am the son of a General Contractor (Leonard Rensink Jr commonly known as Bud Rensink) and have a fair working knowledge of a home. I don't keep current on prices so I brought in my good friend Steve Rainey and asked his professional opinion. He felt the priceing and the work were fair.
So My Recommendation: If you are looking for someone in the High Desert, Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley to Reroof- Repair and do a Certification Richard Rossi is you man and company. His license number is 862390. His phone number is 909 456 9345
Richard Rossi also brings the knowledge of being a home Appraiser to the table as well.
By the way, he provided a 2 year certification for the whole roof. It is worth the price of admission.
The Pine Ridge Home looks Brand new. Pictures will be provided at a later date.
Have you ever 1031 exchanged Personal Property?
If you have been in Real Estate for any amount of time, you have run across the "1031" Exchange. You already know that a client exchange their real estate investment has a 45 day identification period and a total of 180 days to complete the transaction through a QI. You know that there are some risks to doing a ten ThirtyONe Exchange.
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN EXCHANGE PERSONAL PROPERTY? I had the good fortune of meeting with the author of Exchanging UP! Gary Gorman. I asked a few question about real estate 1031 exchange and the possibility of extending seller financing. He was knowledgeable and could think creativity. So I bought his Book.
As a discipline I read through the first five Chapters. Review of things I already am famliar with. " In order to qualify for Section 1031, property has to be held as an investment or used in a trade or business. 'Held for investment' means you intend to hold the property for future appreciation." The Relinquished property and the replacment property are the old property and the new property. A 1031 Exchange rolls the gain from the sale of an Old Property to a New Property. All of this was a very helpful review.
Then Much to my surprise AHA you can 1031 exchange personal property. Personal property is something that can be moved. Things that can be moved include the following: boats, planes, equipment from the office, over the road trucks and trailers, Trains(do you have one of those?), computer systems and the list goes on. Now is when it gets tricky but could prove to benefit you the owner of personal business property.
So my question is have you ever done a personal property 1031 exchange? Chapter 18 of Gary's book is detailed enough to make an accountant happy and the rest of us wondering.
Val Exit Desert ocean Realty
Sycamore Rocks, Desert Knolls, The Mesa Victorville
Have you attended a Mega Camp?
To say it was a great time filled with AHA's just doesn't say enough. There is anticipation in the air. There is one of Austin's Finest Guitarist Van Wilks on Stage and it is only 8:00 am in the morning. Already I am out of my normal meeting box.
Gary Keller the co author of Million Dollar Agent is the CEO/founder of Keller Williams Realty. He is on stage, slim, well read, witty and more than able to put his finger on the pulse of the market having been in real estate from the early 80's. And more importantly having ridden the ups and Downs.
Main message:::: Your Mindset is more important than the Market anyday.
The Market is the enviorment in which I conduct my business but don't overread or underread the market. It doesn't determine my success. So I won't wait for a better market. that would be a waste of time. So you must on a daily basis understand your market.
Get focused. Get the power of one idea. you will prospect and that is your one idea that you will do. period.
Well there is so much more to a Mega Camp
Val Exit Desert Ocean Realty in Victorville, Apple Valley, Hesperia, Sycamore Rocks, Desert Knolls
Asking for Referrals
My phone rings. It is a lead sales person for a company that promises, "We will put you on the front page of MSN, GOOGLE, YAHOO, ETC" After several minutes of listening and showing "interest" and "curious" I am handled over to a closer "senior project manager" He proceeds to lead me through a series of questions that can only be answered by yes otherwise I would look like an idiot. Then the bottom line.
For a 20 key phrase first page package $2999 and for a 40 key phrase first page package $4999 but wait today only with an unbelievable offer, if I take the 40 they will provide me one on one with their team of experts and I will get great saving. 40 phases for only $3499.
I say two things: I will check with my finance partner (wife) and I would like to real estate references. Yes please give me two totally happy clients. Yes, I know that they will only rave about the product/service of your company. I at this point of my carreer only pay for leads that end up as closed transactions. I do not pay for passive lead generation that ends up as nothing. Yes, I know that you can deliever on your promise that I will be on the first page. I want to talk with someone in real estate- not travel, not a vet, not a divorce attroney.
With much reluctance, I recieved two names of clients, real estate clients that they were happy to provide.
So HOW DO YOU THINK THE PHONE INTERVIEW WENT WITH RE AGENTS. Yes you probably guessed right!
They both were disappointed with the service and the results. They both felt that money had been spent and so far was wasted.
But wait, did I mention that not only did I talk with the lead sales person and the project manager but also I spoke with the VP of the Company. One of the owners. and then was pursued by another person from the company and offered a better deal for only $1999. Still I persisted an asked for two reference explaining that the company has yet to deliever on that. If you can't provide two good REF's how can I believe that you will provide a good service
Waiting to find out.
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