Hey everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is winterizing your home. Now I live in Texas, so we go through summer, summer, half a day of fall, and right into winter. So depending on your part of the country, you may need to have your furnace checked. You may need to have oil put into the reservoir for the furnace. You may have to have your roof done, ceiling, windows, and trim and paint and things like that. Anything to make your home weatherproof and cold proof would be beneficial. So, I don’t know your part of the world. Educate me. What do you need to do? Do you have a need to have a stockpile of ice, in case it…I’m sorry, ice, salt in case it ices up? Maybe you need to get some new snow shovels or get your snow blower checked or whatever it is you do. Put it out there, tag me in it. I would love to see what other parts of the country do throughout the winter season. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
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Days of Gratitude
Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is one that I see a lot of people do right now. It’s the 22 days or 24 days of thankfulness. Okay? So, there’s 22 days to Thanksgiving, and they post something every day that they’re thankful for. So, you can make it about anything you want to. You can do it in pictures. You know, here’s 24 days or 22 days of things I’m thankful for. You can do it with words each day. Write a little paragraph. Just have something that people begin to expect to see so that every day they expect to see something new from you. And now it’s themed about Thanksgiving. So, 22 days of thankfulness this year and start with being thankful for your clients, being thankful for your family, being thankful for your car, being thankful for whatever it is you’re thankful for. I’m thankful for you. Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Thanksgiving Recipes
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
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
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.
Your Halloween History
Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is Halloween through history.
So, you know, we don’t want to get into anything too controversial about the roots of Halloween and where it came from historically, but maybe you can go into what Halloween meant to you as a kid. Maybe you can talk about some of your costumes growing up that either you made or your folks helped you make.
I remember when I was growing up, we had these big plastic masks that held on with elastic and the kind of nylon suits when I was like 5 or 7 years old. And then my mom made some costumes which are really cool. But the store-bought things were just kind of clunky and awful. Maybe you can have some pictures, if you have them, of you as a kid in Halloween costumes.
Talk about the history of Halloween as it meant to you. What was your favorite candy to get in the bag? What was something that your folks warned you about? “Watch out for the guy down the street with the knife.” Or no, no. Did you go out to haunted houses as kids? What was it about Halloween as a kid in your history that made that important to you? Go on your social media, do a video about it, post some pictures, get as many comments as you can and then comment back.
Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Trick or Treat Driving
Now is a great time to remind people that small kids will be out in big costumes focused on candy. They won’t be looking both ways and drivers need to be more alert.
Best Chili Recipes
Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your Realty Idea of the Day is Best Chili Recipes.
Now, this is one that you can ask people to contribute pictures or text recipes, however, they want to do it. I love watching the little video recipes. I don’t cook, I watch how they make stuff, anyway. So the best chili recipe, which one is the best for you, which one is your sphere…maybe you have a chili cook-off, maybe this will lead to an event where you can have your clients come in and test all the different chilies and offer a prize and be in the middle of it all.
So best chili recipes. Now I know regions have different styles of chili. I know Texas supposedly, you don’t put beans in Texas chili. I like beans in chili, so I must not be from Texas. And then you have things like Cincinnati chili, which is served over spaghetti and it’s sweet and it’s actually really good. So every region has a different idea of what chili is, just like they have a different idea of barbecue. So let’s talk about that and get the best recipes and post them on our social media.
Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
New Social Media
Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and if you’re like most people who are real estate agents, social media is something you put up with, and it’s not really what you love. Unlike me, I love it. So my challenge to you today is let’s add a new social media to your group. So one thing you could do is go on the social media that you have like Facebook or Instagram and ask, “Hey, what other social media platforms are you on? I’m growing. I want to know where to move my next platform to.” It could be YouTube, it could be Instagram, it could be Snapchat. It could be whatever you wanna do. Quora is a new one. So let’s go and talk about where the new social media platform is and which one you want to go to. And frankly, you can Google this because there’s a lot of new platforms that we don’t even know what the next one’s gonna be. So, what is the new social media platform? Ask your current sphere where they see their friends going to and then join it. Take care. Bye-bye.
Leasing Homes
Hey, everyone. Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Ideas Per Day is leasing homes. Now, we all know that buying a home is your best investment because you’re going to be building equity versus paying for somebody else’s equity in their lease home. But sometimes you just have to. Sometimes you either don’t have the down payment or you’re only going to be living in an area for a short time. Leases are there. So let’s talk about how much it cost to lease a home in your area, what makes a really great tenant if you’ve got a lot of convictions and some bankruptcies, and 17 cats. You’re probably not gonna be a good tenant. So let’s talk about the pricing in the area, the best way to strategize to get your tenant application put through, and maybe what landlords are looking for right now. Anyway, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. Let’s talk about leasing houses in your market. Take care. Bye-bye.
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