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Help, My Listing Won’t Sell!

Transcript from Podcast. Today we are going to talk about what to do when your listing just won’t sell this is a fairly common question I get asked usually after an agent has spent months trying to sell a property for not having luck and the seller is getting frustrated and the sellers putting pressure […]

Facts About Real Estate Contingencies

Transcript from podcast: Contingencies episode #3 In this episode we are going to talk about real estate contingencies I get a lot of recurring questions about contingency periods, what happens when they expire, and how that affects the deposit, so I figured it would be good to do a primer that covers important factors to […]

How to Get Paid Directly From Escrow

Transcript from the podcast episode: Greetings agents. I’m using a different microphone this time to eliminate that creepy background noise that was in the first recording, so hopefully the audio quality is better. We’re still testing things out. All right, so the topic of this podcast is how to get paid directly from escrow and […]

Real Estate Commission Paid Faster

Which 100% Commission Real Estate Company Pays the Fastest? At Balboa Real Estate, if your file is complete at closing or you use our in-house transaction coordinator then you can be paid directly from escrow at closing. Otherwise, escrow sends a commission check or wire to the office. In the many years that I have […]

#1 Common Mistake with the Referral Fee Agreement

Avoid the top mistake agents make on a referral fee agreement. It all begins as to how the referral fee agreement is structured. The form stipulates the fee to be paid to the referring broker is based off of the gross commission earned. Now, this verbiage is important and necessary because it protects the referring […]

What is 100% Commission Real Estate?

What is hundred percent commission real estate? (Transcription) This concept was popularized and entered the mainstream over ten years ago and since then it’s evolved and has changed somewhat. Before 100 percent commission was part of the mainstream program that an agent could get a real estate company. The big talk was about splits, so […]

Contingencies Stay Active Until The Buyer Removes Them in Writing

Contingenices Don’t Expire Automatically, They Must Be Removed Contingencies stay in place until they’re removed by the buyer in a contingency removal form. So the three big buyer contingencies are the inspection period, the loan period, and then the appraisal period. Default verbiage in a CAR purchase agreement or an oorp.org purchase agreement has 17 […]