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	<title>Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate</title>
	
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	<description>Insights from Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate into the real estate industry</description>
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		<title>Let’s Get Personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulette Costa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“I want to know you’re successful and that you work with lots of buyers and sellers, and I want to be treated like I’m your only client.”
Nearly 25 years ago, those words from a seller helped mold my professional future.
We work in a fee-for-service business. “I … I … I …” doesn’t work. Frankly, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I Get My Real Estate License?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Forsythe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Agents]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brokerage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gross Commission Income]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By reflex the answer is “yes.” But the answer really is, “it depends.”
Now more than ever it is important that we are extremely selective when hiring new agents. We owe it to them, we owe it to our current agents and we owe it to ourselves.
For the potential new agent just entering the industry, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vlog: Sherry’s Takeaways</title>
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		<comments>http://bhgrealestateblog.com/2008/10/08/vlog-sherrys-takeaways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherry Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>I Sold My House on One of the Worst Financial Days Since Black Monday</title>
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		<comments>http://bhgrealestateblog.com/2008/10/06/i-sold-my-house-on-one-of-the-worst-financial-days-since-black-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Steele</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Real estate]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[listing syndication]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[selling a home]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bhgrealestateblog.com/?p=440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes we finally sold our home and are out of attorney review after:  100+ days on the market, 2 price reductions and a price 5% below ask.  This was one wild ride, but we are now officially STRONG buyers with a contract in hand, pre-approved and ready to find our new home.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the Economy Tightens, Don’t Lose Focus on Ethics</title>
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		<comments>http://bhgrealestateblog.com/2008/10/03/focus-on-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolai Kolding</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Industry Commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Real estate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[brokers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Company Values]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Donald Cressey]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economic Challenges]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bhgrealestateblog.com/?p=415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an industry, we are all suffering right now in large part because too many people over a long period of time checked their ethical compasses at the door.  Whether we like it or not, we are all caught up in this mess and few people are differentiating the players - since we are part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate 101 Meets Facebook 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Forsythe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In real estate 101 training I was taught that you tell everyone you know what you are doing and then remind them every time you see them that you are selling real estate. One of my first lessons was to write down the names of everyone I  knew and then contact them to let them know I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Remain Focused in these Challenging Times? Call Me.</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bhgrealestateblog/~3/416849690/</link>
		<comments>http://bhgrealestateblog.com/2008/09/30/want-to-remain-focused-in-these-challenging-times-call-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherry Chris</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fernando Campos]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Peter McWilliams]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bhgrealestateblog.com/?p=399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the “Shoes Keep Dropping,” it is easy to become paralyzed by the media reports, the unknown challenges that lay ahead, the worries around how long these market and economic conditions will last. In fact, it is difficult right now to think of anything else.  For the most part, it is the same story everywhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ideas for Monitoring and Improving Listing Absorption Rate</title>
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		<comments>http://bhgrealestateblog.com/2008/09/29/three-ideas-for-monitoring-and-improving-listing-absorption-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Albanese</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Office management]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[absorbtion rate]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bhgrealestateblog.com/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Bob Albanese
In my last blog I wrote about “loss connected with a low listing absorption rate” and the clear upside in maintaining strong performance in this area. The question now revolves around how brokers can improve listing absorption rate, and the types of tools and measurement devices that are required to accomplish this.
Listing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Focused in a Cluttered World</title>
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		<comments>http://bhgrealestateblog.com/2008/09/25/staying-focused-in-a-cluttered-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Forsythe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economic Challenges]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NAR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Service Experience]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bhgrealestateblog.com/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have a thought it creates a physical reaction — the mind and the body are connected. If you are having negative thoughts you are likely to feel blue, lethargic, and pessimistic. With everything that is happening in the economic world how do we stay focused on the positive?
NAR data indicates that homes sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GO Green!</title>
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		<comments>http://bhgrealestateblog.com/2008/09/24/go-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulette Costa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[David Bach]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High Efficiency Water]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Rosner]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Rich Trying]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sophia Uliano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of today’s environmental buzzwords are “green” and “global warming” and “healthy environment,” but what exactly do these buzzwords mean to our homes, our health and our pocketbooks?  I had the opportunity to dig into the effects of global warming during my research for our Home Efficiency Seminar.
There are volumes of information available online and [...]]]></description>
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