Real Estate

I’m interested in a property and it is zoned for "Mixed Use MDL-94". I don’t know what MDL-94 stands for and it doesn’t elaborate in any legend, I did a quick google search to see if anybody defined it but I just had more appraisal listings with "MDL-94".

I’m not really in the realty business so I don’t know if it’s an abbreviation, an acronym, or anything.
Any help from realty-lingo savvy people would be appreciated.

am going to guess since i have never heard of this but have an exc RE background

it represents two things;

modular building design 94
and

mixed use–meaning it allows different uses, house and business in the same building
and next to other commercial buildings

hope that helps

happy new year

Hi. I am a client coordinator to a realtor on Vancouver Island. I assist him in his listings and take care of the general office duties while he is out marketing. What can I do to help market his listings and gain new clients from inside and outside the office?

I am quite new to the world of realty and would like your advice on how to get the attention of buyers. Thank you so much

The best training I ever received about developing new business is this: Don’t try to be ALL things to ALL people because you’ll end up just chasing all the time. Identify your unique niche and pound the hell out of it. In realty as kindof a general rule, successful residential agents tend to niche in concise & selected geographical areas or neighborhoods. It’s called "farming." Building new business takes YEARS. Don’t get frustrated if it doesn’t happen immediately for you….successful people continue to do the stuff others don’t want to do. Good luck hot rod!

I am interested in finding rent to own listings in my area. I have found tons of websites offering too good to be true pricing for homes that are probably worth more than my annual income. I would like a legit and safe trusting realty company or website/program that offers rent to own services. I live in Ohio.
Yes I called the only two real estate companies that I know of here in Ohio. They do not specialize in lease to own, just sales. They did have a couple staff members who work in that area but they prefer to pick up clients to make a sale and they have very limited property listing for lease to own. I found 7 from one company and 9 from the other. I know there has to be a list of 100s of those kind of properties, I just don’t know where to find them.

"offering too good to be true."

name the deal.

have you called a real estate office in your area of interest and asked for a "buyer’s agent?"
[never a dual agent]

just tell them what you want.

I can guide you all the way!!!

I have two properties listing that I am trying to desperately sell, both investment properties are located hours away. There is still equity in the homes, its not like their upside down on the loan or anything. For both properties I had them listed with Realtor/Agents – After some time – problems developed and I ended up switching to Brokers coincidentally on both of them (I have never had any of the previous 20 homes I’ve sold through Realty companies be Brokers themselves)

For one home, I wanted to cancel the listing and spoke with the Broker because I couldnt get a hold of the lady. He was kind and said they have had that problem before. He suggested me to list it with his wife, who is also a Broker. I agreed.

On the other home, I found a person to list it through positive reviews from Zillow I think it was…I never caught that she was a Broker. We met, great person – very kind and of course knowledgeable.

Im just wondering now…If it makes more sense to go with a Broker? (And…how often do they actually LIKE to accept listings themselves? Is it usually…the more the better? As if they are competing with other Realtors? I just kind of thought they managed everything. I am not sure how totally wrong I was on this. Now I’m just wondering…how much time they will actually have to devote?

Thanks…

The broker is a realtor with a higher license. All realtors work for a broker.
No difference. It is years of experience that matter.

I was looking for a house on craigslist and responded to an ad for a cute cottage in an area I’m familiar with but don’t live in. The people behind the ad sent me a response repeating the information in the ad, gave me the address, and then asked me for information on myself (references, how many people would be living there, etc.). I’m worried it’s a scam because the cottage is pretty cheap for the area (not exceedingly, just under what other places are going for), and when I typed the address into google, all I could find were listings for the house up for sale from Lyon realty. I’m thinking that this may be a scam, but how can I verify that it is?

100% scam.

There is no cottage for rent.

There are only stolen pictures from the Lyon realty site.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "out of town owner" will demand you pay for the deposit and first month’s rent, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram to some fake escrow company. Then the scammer will say "I will mail you the keys via FedEx, you can check the house, if you don’t like it, send the keys back and I will send you the money back". You send money, the scammer keeps it and disappears.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his ‘potential sucker’ list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don’t bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn’t worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake apartment rental scam", "fraud house for rent Western Union scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

How does that work? Can we have several real estate agents looking for us or is that unethical? Are we obligated in any way if we call an agent and tell him/her what type of home we want? Or is it better to go looking by ourselves? I feel lost in this sea of homes for sale and seldom seem to hit on just what I want and I feel like my online searches are missing 99% of the listings out there anyway. If we ask some agents to look for us, can they look at all listings, not just the ones with their realty company?

Always find an agent and let the agent find a list of properties that meet your needs. The seller pays the commission, not the buyer….also don’t sign any agreement with your agent that commits to that agent. If you decide that you don’t like your agent you want to be able to walk away without any costs to you.

A Real State Basic Question About Brokers?
ok, so the question is that if I(the agent) have a few listings with ABC Realty and im changing brokers to whatever realty what happens to my listings? do they expire or terminate, do they stay with the old broker, or do they transfer to the new broker.?

i know they are contract and the expire whenever the contract says it does no matter what but isnt the contract and everything belong to the broker? so what happens when i switch brokers?

thank you!

You would lose the listings to another agent at the realty office you’re leaving. Homeowners list properties with a broker, not you directly. You are only an agent of the broker as long as you work in his office.

I’m making my own realty website I’ve got the first page done I know HTML and CSS well however I want to have it so I can basically just use a form or such to add houses to my listing on my site rather than changing my code every day to add or take down a house

I want my listings page to basically look something like this:
http://www.trulia.com/NY/New_York/

look at something like django (based on python) or ruby on rails. i’ve played with both. they work fine. java server pages suck.

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