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Starbucks Open House

January 19, 2019 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is the Starbucks open house. So, let’s say that you don’t have a listing right now that you wanna hold open or can’t hold open and you need to be able to get clients. Go to a Starbucks or a local diner or anywhere you like to go hang out for a couple hours. Have breakfast, have a cup of coffee, and put a sign on your table that says, “I’m a realtor, ask me a question.” Now, be sure this is a place that has good flow of traffic on a weekday or weekend because you don’t wanna sit there at a place that you’re the only person. But sit there, put a sign on your desk, have it on the back of your computer. One of my agents wears a hat all the time says, “I’m a realtor, ask me questions.” Put that up there. Hold an open house no matter where you’re at and see people will come up and ask you stuff. People will come up and start a conversation if you invite them. So, put the sign up, put it on the back of your screen, put it on the back of your hat, whatever. “I’m a realtor, ask me questions.” Go do a Starbucks… There is no excuse for not having an open house almost every weekend. I do Facebook open houses. I sit in front of my computer for an hour and just talk into the computer and whoever dials into the Facebook Live, gets to talk to me. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Taxes & Shredding

January 18, 2019 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea is taxes and shredding. So it’s tax season, you know, obviously it’s not due until April, but a lot of people do them early. Don’t know why. Anyway, so talk about the fact that record retention is something they have to do. I think it’s four years worth of records you have to maintain, but that 5th, 6th, 7th, 20th year, it’s time to shred them. So what we do in our company is we have a shredding day. We hire a shredding truck, costs us $200 an hour for the truck to come to a parking lot. And we invite people to load up their cars and bring boxes and boxes of things to shred. It’s shredded and then recycled and you don’t have to worry about identity theft. So talk about the taxes, talk about your receipts, talk about records, and talk about you hosting a shredding day, or if you don’t wanna host one, find someone who is doing one, maybe a local bank or a mortgage company you tie in with. Host a shredding day, protect their identity, help them shred their documents. Take care. Bye-bye.

Training Training Training

January 17, 2019 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and the realty idea of the day is training, training, training. So, you’re a real estate professional. In your state you’re probably required to take courses every year to renew your license. You need to talk about why you are such a well-trained, amazing realtor. Go out there and talk about your training, go out and talk about the training you wanna get this year. Maybe you wanna get a certification. GRI or CRS are the best two, my opinion. Sorry. GRI or CRS, go get those designations. CRS will take you a while. It’s so worth it. So, anyway training, training, training. Make your sphere aware of how hard you work to stay in this business because two reasons. One, they need to know you know what you’re talking about because you have a lot of training. And two, you wanna scare Sally off because Sally is gonna want to get her license because she watched HGTV and saw how amazingly easy it is. Show them how hard you have to work, how hard you have to study, and what it is you put in so that people know, one, you’re smart and two, this is not just something you woke up one day and did. Take care. Bob McCranie. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Pet Photo Contest

January 16, 2019 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is a pet photo contest. So, let’s say you go out on your Instagram or your Facebook and you come up with a hashtag like, “#bobspetcontest.” And you ask people to post the best pet pictures they have of their pets. Whoever wins gets a Starbucks card, gets whatever, and you get connection to them. This doesn’t sound like it’s a real estate post. It’s totally a real estate post. So, when you do this, go out to their post, comment on it, create that connection, and then name the winners. Whoever wins gets a prize. You take it over, you do a pop-by, you have a reason to go talk to them and ask for the business. But by doing this, you also increase your social media connectivity because when you have conversations, Facebook and all the others go, “Oh, they like to talk to each other.” And then when you have a listing or open house or something like that, they say, “These people talked before, let’s show them that again.” Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, pet photo contest, it’ll be fun. Bye-bye.

Ask For Business

January 15, 2019 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is ask for the business. How many times do you see salespeople out there and they’re promoting themselves and they’re doing things but they never come around to, “I’m ready, are you ready to buy and sell? I’d like to be your agent.” Ask for the business. Go out on your social media and say, “Hey, I’m Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, insert your name here, and I would like to list your home,” or, “I would like to help you buy or sell a home.” “Do you know just one person looking to buy or sell a home, please refer them to me.” Ask for the business. We make so many other conversations starters, we do so many things, but do we ask people and say, “Hey, I want to be your person.” So ask for the business and see what comes back. It doesn’t hurt to ask. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Go ask for the business. Bye-bye.

Pool’s Closed

September 29, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is getting your pool ready for the winter.

So, I love my pool. I’m out in it not nearly enough during the summer months and the spring months and anytime the pool heater’s working. But during the winter you need to know how to maintain it. Now, some people cover their pools. I personally don’t because I found I had a floating cover and the leaves and all the problems got under the cover I didn’t notice. So I don’t cover my pool because I want to be able to visually see under the pool cover and know what’s going on. But some people in different parts of the country have different ideas. Now, an above ground pool has to be treated differently.

So go out there and maybe interview a pool person and put that on your social media, talk about how people with pools need to protect their pools through the winter months, and that way also people who are thinking about getting a house with a pool could contact you to buy their home.

Anyway. Bob McCranie, Realty Ideas per Day. There’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Electronic Door Locks

September 26, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is electronic door locks. There are a lot of options right now in locks. You have the type to have the little keypad on the front, you have the type that only work with your phone app, you have so many different systems out there right now. You have Nest, you have Anchor, you have…I’m sorry, August, not Anchor. You have Nest, you have August, you have Kwikset has their own, I think Schlage has their own version of these. Let’s talk about which ones are the best, which ones you like, which ones maybe you’ve run into in your real estate practice and which ones you think are the best of the best. Go on consumer reports and find some information out on the reviews of these. Maybe go to your local locksmith and ask him which ones are easy to get into and which ones are the best for the world.

Anyway, electronic locks, everybody’s pretty much starting to use them. Let’s talk about those. Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day, there’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Ask A REALTOR

September 25, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and my realty idea of the day is ask a realtor. So what if we just posted on social media, “I’m a real estate agent. Ask me any question.” Let’s just see what comes back. I think that’d be a great way to get a dialogue started. People may not know that they even have a question about an issue in real estate until you open the door and ask them.

So my realty idea of the day is let’s just put it out there, “I’m a realtor. Ask me a question.” Let’s see what comes back and I would post this across several of my social media. I would do at least Facebook, Twitter, and possibly Instagram on this and see what comes back. Maybe I don’t think this would be good for Pinterest. But just try it and see what comes back to you. And then tag me in the post. I wanna see what your answers are and how much traction you get on this. Ask a realtor day. Let’s come up with any questions they want and let’s come up with the answers to their questions, and be their real estate professional. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow.

State Fair of Texas

September 24, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and a few weeks ago, we talked about the State Fair of Texas was coming. If I timed this right, today should be the first day of the first week of the State Fair of Texas.

Now, if you have…if you’re not in Texas, well I feel sorry for you. But if you are in Texas, you need to make your way to the Texas State Fair. It is a huge place with lots of different games, lots of different rides, tons of food, and my favorite part of the fair is the car show. I like to go look at all the new cars and see what’s there. So take a ton of pictures at your fair, post them. A few weeks ago, we were trying to get people ready and be interested in the fair, it’s here now. So let’s go to it. Let’s take some pictures and post and interview some of the people at the fair. There’s so much arts and crafts, there’s livestock which I’m not so much on. But, there’s so many different aspects you can have. You could literally get 20 or 30 posts out of the State Fair of Texas or whatever city or state you live in.

Talk to you soon. Post them, tag me in them. I want to see them. Take care. Bye-bye.

HOA’s

September 23, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everybody. It’s Bob McCranie, with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is HOA’s why or why not?

So a lot of homes, especially new home construction in Dallas, has an HOA, you know, with it. So people are wondering how do I buy a home anymore without an HOA? Well, you have to by an older community. You have to go buy a home built probably before the 1990s to get in a community that does not have an HOA. If you’re living in an apartment or a townhome community you wanna have an HOA, because they’re the ones who maintain the common element. They maintain the roofs, the wall space, the structure, the foundation, things like that. So… And plumbing, windows, things of that nature.

Every HOA is different, there is no standard in Texas for what an HOA has to have, to my knowledge. Every HOA I’ve run into has a different set of rules and a different set of reasons. So talk to your client about what they want in an HOA, or do they wanna live outside of an HOA community. If you live outside of an HOA community you could end up with a purple house next to you or a house that has, you know, Christmas lights up in August. Like across the street from my house. Anyway. But that can happen. If you’re in an HOA community they’ll help take care of that. But you also have to pay fees and you have to deal with the nosy neighbors. So talk about the HOA’s in your area, maybe talk about what they do and what’s best for your clients. Talk about it on social media and maybe ask people on your social media what they think about HOA’s. Anyway, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realtor idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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