11. November | Realty Ideas Per Day

Holiday Home Security

November 21, 2018 · by autobotposter

Hey, everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your Realty Idea of the Day is travel during the holidays. So, let’s talk about securing your home, having additional drive-bys, you know, have the police drive through, if you have good neighbors, have them check on your house. Let’s talk about security in your home at the holidays.

So, there’s all sorts of new security cameras we’ve talked about before, the electronic locks, the Nest cameras, the SimpliSafe system. I think Nest also now has a home security system. Anything that you can, one, monitor your home and who’s around it, and two, having a live person come through every couple days and check your mail and pick up any newspapers and things like that is incredibly important. So, let’s remind people, when they’re about to head out of town for the holidays, that you are a housing expert, you’re a neighborhood expert, and here’s something they could do to protect themselves.

Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Thanksgiving Recipes

November 3, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is Thanksgiving recipes and Thanksgiving cooking.

So what we want to do right now is we want to go out on social media and we want to ask the question, “What’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish? What’s maybe a family recipe that you’ve had? What’s some food that you’d love to have for Thanksgiving?” Let’s have a photo contest, let’s have a recipe contest. Let’s find some way to…maybe if we get really good recipes, we can have a little cookoff. We can have a little challenge, have people vote for which one you want.

Ask questions on social media. This is a great question. It’s a photo question. People can put that on your Instagram or your Pinterest or your Facebook. It’s a recipe question. People are gonna make their little videos, or just list what’s in the ingredients.

So foods at Thanksgiving, what’s important in your family, what do you want to see on the table, give us a recipe for it. Bob McCranie, Realty Ideas per Day, there’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day in your mailbox tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Halloween Costume Contest Winners

November 2, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and we’re gonna continue a blog from a couple days ago. A couple days ago, we told people, “Hey, on Halloween, send us your best costumes that you see and there’ll be a contest.” Today is contest day.

So what we wanna do is we wanna post the best pictures we got, put them into an email, send them out, and recognize maybe the best kid’s outfit, the best adult’s outfit, the most scary, the funniest, dog/cat outfits, pet outfits, whatever. Come up with categories so there’s a lot of winners. And then, what you do is you let everybody know that, “Hey, there were so many good entries this year. Everyone’s gonna win a Starbucks card. Everybody who entered is gonna get something.” And then you go do pop bys with all those. And you go see people and say, “Hey, that was a great costume. Here’s something from me at Banana Realty, think of me anytime somebody’s about to buy or sell a home.” And that’s a great way to include people, make them feel like a winner and get those great pictures in and then everybody gets a little reward for thinking of you.

Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Battery Change

November 1, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is time change, obviously, we’re gonna send that out, everybody remembers to send that out, but also, time to change the battery in your smoke detector.

So I’m huge about fire safety. If you watch me, I talk about fire safety at least two, three times a month if I can. Changing the batteries is important. Now, some smoke detectors are coming with lifelong batteries, that’s great. But there’s still a lot of smoke detectors out there that require the square 9-Volt batteries. I would go buy 20 or 30 9-Volt batteries and do a pop by and say, “Here’s two batteries, go change your smoke detectors. Do you need three, do you need just one? Do you need somebody to come in and, you know, if you can’t get on a ladder, do you want me to get up there and change it for you?”

Fire safety is incredibly important and we need to have working smoke detectors throughout the home. So talk about that. People will get the time change. They’ll understand that. They won’t remember to go change their batteries. Help them with that. Get some batteries. Take them around, hand them out to people. And then post about that on your Instagram, on your Facebook, on your Twitter. You can even do that on LinkedIn. And just talk about, “Hey, I’m out with Steve today and we’re changing batteries for people. If you need some, let me know.”

Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.