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What can a real estate agent and broker require you to sign in a real estate deal?

August 22nd, 2011 1 comment

I am in escrow on some property in which the seller and his real estate agent were not very forthcoming in their disclosure statements. Through a third party I found out some things about the property that are detriments (such as occassional flooding) but I am willing to overlook them and still purchase the property. I have released all my contingencies and we have a close date set.

My real estate agent happened to tell the seller’s real estate agent that we found out some of these things on the property – most importantly about the flooding – and now the selling real estate agent wants me to sign a bunch of documents listing out what I found out as if she had told me about them. I don’t want to do it – it took considerable effort for me to uncover these issues and I have already signed off on contingencies. I don’t think I need to also let her off the hook as if she had disclosed these things to me – she did not. Can the realtor force me to sign these?
I am asking if a real estate agent can legally force me to sign informal and misleading documents in order to progress with the purchase? The seller and I have already signed all legal documents as outlined in our legal contract.

Real Estate Business Tips

February 1st, 2011 Comments off

Online Lead Generating 101 In Two Easy Steps?Yes, this is possible.

Step 1: Setup a lead generating real estate website. You need lead capture pages or a squeeze page

Step 2: Drive traffic of local buyers and sellers to your real estate website.

That’s it right there in just two easy steps.

Step one is not difficult.Search the internet and you can find lead capture pages specifically for real estate investing or for Realtors. 

Step Two? This is a lot more complicated.  It’s also where the real estate investor, Realtor or really any kind of “internet marketer” fails to succeed.

One of the best ways to get traffic from motivated sellers and local buyers is to take the steps to improve your search engine optimization or SEO. What you want is when people in your area are searching keywords such as “Miami short sale” that your website is popping up high on Google and Yahoo.

That’s all there is to it.. Get your website ranked high for keywords and local buyers and sellers will find your website. If you have the right structure with your website the sellers and buyers will opt in and leave their contact information.

In 2011, this is how to find motivated sellers and build a buyers list.

So how do you even start to improve the SEO ranking for a website.

Find a real estate SEO service to handle this work for you.   If you do it you’ll look back on it as one of the better business decisions you made. 

Just think of the increase in value to your business if your website is ranked on page 1 of Google?

Is there anything more important than a high Google Ranking to a real estate business in 2011?

Take the steps to get your website on page one of Google and page one of Yahoo.  Once you get there your real estate business will explode with incoming leads, new listings, and more sales.