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What is a Probate Sale? Answering 4 Big Questions About This Tricky Transaction

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You’re interested in buying a house, and someone told you about probate sales. But — if you’re being honest — you really have no idea what a probate sale is or how it works. What is a probate sale? You vaguely understand that these can provide opportunities for a bargain. We’ll walk you through it.

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How to Grow Your Real Estate Business: 11 Tips + 1 to Avoid

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I’m sharing 11 tips from my years of sales and coaching on how real estate agents grow their businesses. Every month, this agent tries a new lead generation strategy, jumping from one tool to the next without seeing the process bloom into a sale. In recent years, the real estate market has constantly changed.

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Stop Waiting! Here’s How to Find New Inventory When It Seems Like None Exists

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Anthony Marguleas has a handful of ideas to help you and your buyers go out and find homes for sale, rather than waiting for them to hit the MLS. This year, his team was number 24 in sales volume among medium-sized teams. How do you serve your buyers when inventory is as tight as it is today? We don’t like to wait.

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How to Sell a Haunted House Like Any Other Home on the Market

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The former was the case for Nancy Sanborn , a real estate agent in the LA area with nearly 40 years of experience, when she got hired to sell what she thought was a regular old probate listing in a wealthy LA neighborhood in 2016. That was December of 1959, yet rumors swirled for decades to come.

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8 Red-hot Real Estate Niches That Can Double Your GCI in 2024

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Thankfully, short-term rentals (STRs) are still lucrative, even in the current economy. It’s true that escalating home prices, along with increased regulations and fees, have slowed the STR boom of 2021. Gain as much knowledge as you can around real estate as a business. That leaves more people flocking to rentals.