Tom Tezak

Bill you have spurred a great debate, I am a fan of the flyer box or paper airplane hanger as some of you may refer to them as. I however have a slightly different approach, for the first week or so I include the price, this allows all the neighbors to get my flyer in there hand see my marketing tell their friends to buy the house in their neighborhood etc. then I remove the price to cultivate the phone lead and get the serious buyer to call me or for that matter their agent of choice. This forces the buyer to take action and if they are serious they will pursue the property. another marketing approach is to put all of your agents active listings on the back page of your flyer as well as all of his other listing flyers this now gets exposure for your property all over your community by piggybacking on the rest of the agents listings you share the synergy of the marketing your agent is doing community wide. It is important that your agent get all of his listing clients’ permission because some sellers do not see the value in this unless the benefits are explained. Good luck. - Thu Mar 13 2008, 22:23

thanks a bunch to all of you that answered my question, I have looked at lake travis unfortunatly the lake was way down and it was hard to really appreciate it, but austin is a great area, but your taxes are a bit steep if you are not permanent residents and can take advantage of the zero state tax. as for the other communities I am not real familiar with them but would like more info. I currently have my vacation property in Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri it is an incredible boating lake a 100 miles long with around 50 restaraunts and bars scattered all over it. but the delemma is it gets cold there, and after living in maui and selling real estate here for thew past 7 years I am not real keen on cold weather any more I grew up in joliet, illinois and when i left i promised myself i would not own property in a cold weather community again. my goal here is to find someplace I might be able to pick something up that would be a deal and sit on it until i decide its time to change my latitude (probably 7-10 years). any way thanks again for the info any additional resources would be appreciated and if you make your way to Maui give me a call I would love to talk about your lakes.
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Tom Tezak - Thu Mar 13 2008, 21:54

I would say buy now, Austin is a great community I spent a few days looking in that market area and really liked it. also it seems that austin has been pretty insulated to the nationwide market softening, so if that is your destination I would not wait. I can hook you up with a great realtor in the austin area if you would like she helped one of my clients and they were very pleased. I just had lunch with them and they really like living in the Austin area. good luck. tom t - Wed Mar 12 2008, 04:55

Aloha Pete,
That is a great question, and i think paying more to the listing agent is not what will get you more service. In my opinion, it is important to be consistant with the going commision in you market area what ever it is. lets assume for conversation it is 6% with a traditional 50-50 split to the co broker. if you were so inclined to pay more ask your agent to offer the additional commision lets say an additional 1 percent on the selling side offering 4% to the agent that procures the offer, by doing that that you give your agent a tool to motivate all the agents in the area with a higher commision incentive as well as giving your agent the motivation to work harder to sell it as well. to answer the balance of your question, if your were to base the commision on the results of the sale it becomes hard for a buyers agent to ethically get his buyer to pay more so that he would net a higher commision, in theory it is the buyer agents obligation to get his buyer the best price. when the sliding commision scales based on full price offers are presented they are met with resistance in my market area. I hope this helps
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tt - Sat Mar 1 2008, 19:47

Aloha Terry,
We have a weide assortment of condominium proiperties that could fit your needs from ocean front to ocean view, in Maui Hawaii. Prices for ocean front start around $450,000 and go to about 10 Million. check oyut my maui website where you can search real time on our Maui MLS and input the parameters that you are looking for. Maui is one of the best places to live our average daily temp is 82 and in south Maui where I do most of my Business we have roughly 355 days of beautiful weather. feel free to call for more info 8080-280-2055.
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tom Tezak - Fri Feb 29 2008, 19:52