Realtor News

Joe Atkins Opens the First Real Estate Office in Bishop Arts, His Second Shop

By Candy Evans / October 1, 2015 /

Joe Atkins is one of my favorite Realtors and Brokers in town. He’s a millennial with a capital M, a self-starter and one of the best marketers around. We cannot even write about most of his homes, they don’t last on the market that long! Anyhow, I may be spilling the beans, but Joe is…

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Should Realtors Drive Fancy Cars? If So, It’s Officially Porsche Month

By Candy Evans / September 30, 2015 /

Do you know one successful agent who drives a run-down (read: crappy) car? I don’t. One of the top condo agents at a large local brokerage just bought herself a gleaming Rolls Royce — yeah more power to her, I say! Cars are not just a mode of transportation for an agent, they are a…

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Online Reputation Management for Realtors In a (Sometimes) Hostile World

By Leah Shafer / August 21, 2015 /

Imagine yourself in this situation: You’re a Realtor with many years of experience, even more satisfied clients, and by and large, a happy career. Upon the urging of your brokerage, you’ve established a Google Business page, and encouraged people to leave reviews about their experiences with you on Yelp. Then one afternoon, you see a new…

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Lots of Dallas Faces at Inman Real Estate Connect 2015

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2015 /

That’s Marty Marks of Virginia Cook with a contingent of Virgina Cook agents, plus some Dave Perry-Miller agents, Randall Graham marketing director at Ebby Halliday, DD Flynn is here from Berkshire Hathaway, and I’m having drinks tonight with Hanne Sagalowsky and Linda Callicutt from Ebby’s Little White House. Last year Ellen Sedeno was here from…

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Snakes on the Plain, Thanks to All the Rain

By Candy Evans / May 29, 2015 /

It’s time to buy some Snake-Away, but I think I got the last jug at The Home depot — sorry. I haven’t seen any, but I’m sure they are out there in the tall grass. We have had baby snakes in our house in years past. But Keller Williams agent Alyssa McKissack tells me she…

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