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Is Your Presentation Keeping You From Becoming a Champion?

Is Your Presentation Keeping You From Being A Champion..

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Added by Bryant Tutas on March 17, 2010 at 7:52am — No Comments

Real Estate is about more than just selling a house

Real Estate is about more than just selling houses. We have to be able to communicate with people. We need to know how to get business. We have to be knowledgeable of changes in the market place. And most important....we have to keep it all in perspective. So please take some time before you get caught up in your day and check out these thoughts and links. … Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on January 26, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Effective Lead Generation

Are you ready? It's going to be complicated. My secret advice to agents about lead generation is to stop trying to figure it out and start doing it! It’s not so much what you do as it is that you do it. Be consistent. Wake up tomorrow morning and mail an expired listing letter to every expired/withdrawn in your market. Then get up every day thereafter and do the same thing. Do it forever. Then do the same thing for FSBOs and preforeclosures. Within about 90 days you will have a steady stream… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on January 22, 2010 at 8:37am — No Comments

Are you working today?

I know I am. I know I'm working because I have a schedule of things that I do everyday to move my business forward. Mainly I look for business. My job is finding money. I prefer the soft touch so do most of my "soliciting" online. I blog. I social network. I register. I connect with others. Do you? More goodies from me. Get your Social Media figured out.… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on January 19, 2010 at 9:46am — No Comments

Are you prepared for 10 more years of this difficult market?

Below is a link to a great webinar I listened to today. The interview was part of Superstar Interviews by Jim and Julie Harris of HREU. The guy speaking is..... Cary Sternberg, President of ExcellenE REO. With almost 40 years of experience in asset preservation, management and liquidation, Sternberg is the forme… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on January 16, 2010 at 7:28pm — No Comments

Helpful Stuff 1

Need condo docs? Check it out. I will be adding a link to this on www.TTRealtyNet.com for your convenience. Your Buyers and Sellers will get a discount of 5% by using the link from our site. Banks are seizing funds from accounts if folks are delinquent on their mortgages. This is serious st… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on January 14, 2010 at 9:50am — No Comments

A guide to help lay out your financial goals.

Hi folks. We are quickly closing in on 2010. With that in mind I am writing this post to give you a very simple way to achieve your financials goals for next year. First I want you to punch your numbers into this chart. We are looking for how much GFI (Gross Commission Income) you need to meet your financial obligations based on the lifestyle you want to live.

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Added by Bryant Tutas on December 20, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

HAFA Guidelines with my commentary

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Added by Bryant Tutas on December 9, 2009 at 9:20am — No Comments

About Bryant Tutas

Hi there. Welcome to the TTTRealty Network. I started this site back in late 2008 as a place for the agents that worked to for me to get tools and training to help them be successful at real estate. Then one day I woke up and and decided to make the

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Added by Bryant Tutas on November 30, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Tools to help run your "virtual" office.

REALTORS(R) at Tutas Towne Realty all work from their homes. In order to be able to do this you must have the right tools. Requirements are: 1. Computer with printer/scanner 2. Smart phone 3. Fax machine or preferably an eFax (I recommend myfax.com) With out these bare minimum tools you will struggle working for a virtual Real Estate office. This is how I personally handle my business: I list Florida properties for sale witho… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on November 30, 2009 at 9:24am — No Comments

Working with FHA, VA and USDA buyers.

FHA Buyers, at least in my market, are normally placing the minimum amount down, 3.5%, and asking the Seller to pay 6% towards their closing costs. In a market where 87% of the sales are distressed properties, FHA Buyers, in the eyes of the Seller, are second class citizens.

It's not only difficult for FHA Buyers to find a property and get an offer accepted but....they pay more. That's right, the folks who can probabl

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Added by Bryant Tutas on November 18, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Will you have the knowledge to succeed in 2010?

Hi there. This article is about continued education. It’s my opinion, that in order to succeed at real estate you MUST be a student of real estate. Real estate has to be in your head and in your bones. ALWAYS. It has to be more than just a job. It must be a passion. The days of just throwing buyers in the car and selling them a house are over. This is not a temporary change in the market. It’s the new way of doing business. Buyers and Sellers alike are spending time searching for… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on November 9, 2009 at 9:35am — No Comments

The Buyer CMA.

Hi folks. Lenn Harley wrote a post today titled "Looking at Real Estate Teams and Team Specialists". If you haven't read it please take a moment to do so. In her article Lenn wrote...

"The assumption is that training for property valuation

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Added by Bryant Tutas on November 2, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Flexibility is a much needed attribute for success

A while back I called one of my fellow ActiveRainers. I did this because I had received an email and could tell this person was struggling a little in their business and needed some words of encouragement. So I called. Anyway, it seems discouragement was setting in because she was going on listing appointments but was losing them on pricing. Then they would list with another REALTOR® and after several months, and a few price reductions, the property would sell at close to the list price that sh… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on October 27, 2009 at 8:01am — No Comments

Expired letter and NOD Letter

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Added by Bryant Tutas on October 20, 2009 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Sample Short Sale Approval Letters

Hi folks. Ever wondered what your Short Sale Approval will look like? Wonder know more. I have embedded several Short Sale approvals that I recently received for my sellers. These will give you an idea of what to expect when you sell your Central Florida Short Sale.

I have included:

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Added by Bryant Tutas on October 15, 2009 at 8:06am — No Comments

Surviving in real estate requires "growing a pair".

Are you working on getting business today? I am. In fact it's what I do every day. My job is generating business. For any one wanting to work in real estate, as a career, generating business is the number one skill you must learn. First and foremost it requires work. Not hard work but consistent and persistent work. This means making a plan and sticking to it. Not for a month or for six months but for EVER. But where do you begin? What activities should you work on? When in doubt I always go… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on October 12, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

FREE Websites

Good morning.

Short and sweet today. Here are some places to build FREE websites. All are very intuitive and just require a little time and effort. If you can point and click you can build a website.

http://www.devhub.com/ I haven't used this one yet but will be,

http://ning.com Almost all of my websites were built using Ning.

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Added by Bryant Tutas on October 8, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Working as a Transaction Broker

At Tutas Towne Realty we work as Transaction Brokers. This article is to make sure you understand what that means. In Florida all licensees are presumed to be "Transaction Brokers" unless disclosed differently. We do not have to have any additional forms or disclosures that need to be signed by the public. Personally, I think this was a great change in how we as licensees are able to "represent" our customers. There I said it "represent our customers." Yes, folks "Transaction Brokerage"… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on October 4, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Soliciting expired listings

Today I want to talk a little bit about soliciting expired listings.I LOVE expired and withdrawn listings. They are by far, my number one source of business, even though blogging is slowly catching up. I have been soliciting expired listings, every day, for 13 years. It's one of the things I never stop doing and it's also something I have to do first thing every day or my whole day is thrown off track. I've made it a habit. It's my opinion, as a listing Broker, that there is no better way to g… Continue

Added by Bryant Tutas on October 1, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment