Real Estate `a la Carte

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Summary: Helped Me Change My Business Model!
Review: As a real estate agent, I found this book while tyring to change my business model from the traditional 6% commission structure to respond to the concerns of my clients who were willing and more than capable of helping me to sell their home and who expected a financial reward for doing so. This book is exactly what I needed to help me pinpoint the issues and structure a business model that has received overwhelming approval, acceptance, and excitement from my clients!

This book helped me create a fee-for-service business model where my clients pick and choose the services they want for a flat fee. The flat fee structure has saved my clients an average of $16,000 in real estate commissions per transaction! And I am paid a fair value for my services. It's a win-win situation.

My program is outlined here:
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But the book offers suggestions for many other ways to structure the real estate transaction to save the client thousands while compensating the real estate professional fairly.

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Summary: Looking for a New Aspect of the Real Estate Revolution
Review: I agree with the auther for a need to revise the Real Estate business. I must admit the first twenty pages or so were so filled with hostile innaccuracies toward agents in the field, I was very suprised and and put off by the abbundant missinformation, and anger toward the profession. I must admit there are few good people in any field real estate included. But this book really has attitude. She feels there is no difference between buying travel accomidations, stocks and buying a home. I would rather hire a professional in the field who will use his or her trade secrets to get me the best deal. A real estate purchase is a lot bigger of an issue in a persons life than travel or stocks. A house generaly costs more. If someone takes you under their proverbial wing and showes you how it's done, you will enjoy it much better than making a lot of mistakes on your first ten or twenty deals. Learning curve? Reinventing the wheel? I would rather pay a pro to go in and kick but for me. But her idea is basicly good. I show fifty house a year to thirty people who never buy one. I must eat. So listings do pay to much, but that's the system. By the way I work for buyers free. You should go out, use all the info on the Web, do all the work, pay the listing broker a bigger fee(for getting both sides), and have him represent the seller??

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Summary: An Idea Whose Time Has Come!
Review: It is about time someone in the real estate profession wrote a consumer friendly book. This is simply outstanding, and is a must reading for the ever transitory public. It is truly an idea whose time has come, and the sooner real estate agents move their business model into the 21st century, the better. Go Julie!

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Summary: An Idea Whose Time Has Come!
Review: It is about time someone in the real estate profession wrote a consumer friendly book. This is simply outstanding, and is a must reading for the ever transitory public. It is truly an idea whose time has come, and the sooner real estate agents move their business model into the 21st century, the better. Go Julie!

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Summary: Great book for the first time home buyer
Review: My wife and I are buying our first home. I bought 6 books on "how to" and "what to do", so we would be informed on the best way to find a home. This was the best book. We hired a consultant to help us with the purchase and we close June 30. This process saved us alot of time and money.

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Summary: Praises for Real Estate a LA Carte!
Review: Real Estate a La Carte is the ultimate consumer guidebook and a "must read" real estate professional, educational text book.

The real estate industry is undergoing a revolution, not only in how its products and services are marketed and sold, but also in how consumers learn about, shop for, purchase, and repurchase them. The ideas in Real Estate a LA Carte will help the consumer and real estate professional not only to survive the upheaval but ultimately to leverage it for highest returns!

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Summary: One of the most influential people in Real Estate
Review: This book tells you why the Real Estate industry is changing and why Real Estate agents are in deep trouble. An easy and quite enjoyable read from one of Real Estate's most influential authors.

The book breaks down into two categories (Home selling) and (Home buying).

You learn about preparing the stage for effective marketing of the property for sale. Teaches you how to gather property information to price it right. Tells you how to pre-qualify the buyer and troubleshoot the sale and close the transaction. The book goes into detail of designing a purchase strategy and game plan. Tells you the in's and out's of mortgages and how to get pre-approved. All in all it is a pretty solid little book. If you are an agent or a homebuyer / seller and have not read this book you have missed the boat.

FinancialNeeds.com

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Summary: Great resource for the consumer
Review: What a wonderful resource. I read this book twice and learned alot from what the author had to say. I purchased two homes in the last 5 years and feel I have not been properly serviced by the professional I used. CONSUMERS must read this book.

By the way, I noticed another review of this book by a real estate agent that did not like what the author had to say. Probably because it is for consumers not real estate agents. In the future, I will hire a professional that has my needs as the goal and not the commision that will be paid to sell me anything with four walls.