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Exterior Paint!
Hey, everybody. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and let’s talk about exterior paint.
So your realty idea of the day is to talk about exterior paint. What are the popular colors? And if you don’t know, go down to your local Lowe’s or your Home Depot or Sherwin Williams or wherever, and ask the people who mix the paint, “Hey, what are you mixing the most of these days?” If somebody lives in a nature way or a historic home community, they may have limited color choices. If they don’t, then they can paint their house purple or pink or bright green or any other thing they want to, which is great because they’re expressive and that’s wonderful. But all the neighbors around you are like, “Really? Why are you doing that?”
So let’s talk about home exterior colors and let’s talk about the colors that sell. So obviously, a more neutral-colored home is gonna sell faster than one that’s chartreuse or bright blue. So let’s talk to our sphere about exterior paint, maybe even post a couple of pictures of some traditionally painted houses and some brightly-colored houses, see which one everybody picks.
Anyway, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, this would be a great…oh, my gosh. That would be a great picture post. Take care. Ask your sphere what they want in their exterior paint. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
New Places To Eat
Hey, everybody. Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and my mind is always on food. So today’s “Realty Idea of the Day” is new places to eat in town. I know the City of Carrollton where I live, they publish a list of new restaurants that have just gotten a new city permit. So if there is 10 or 20 or 2 new restaurants in town, let’s talk about them. Let’s profile them, let’s talk about them through our sphere. Let’s find their Facebook page and their Instagram and chat them up and tag them in posts.
Here’s what I like to do. I like to give people a really good review. If the place is awful, I’ll intend just not to post about it. But the place is amazing, I’m gonna say something. And if it’s in the middle, I’ll say something nice. So if people wanna post nasty stuff, there’s Yelp for that but I would prefer to have, at least in my blog about my city, nothing but positivity there.
So anyway, Bob McCranie, let’s go find the new places for food and let’s go eat because I’m hungry. Anyway, go find the new places, talk about it on your sphere, and ask people where they like to go and eat in your town. Take care. There’ll be another “Realty Idea of the Day” posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
For Sale By Odor
Okay, everybody, Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and today’s idea, wow what a stinker ha.
Today’s “Realty Idea of the Day” is for sale by odor. Let’s talk about when you’re selling a home and it smells really bad, how we counsel our sellers to remedy that. Let’s talk about how carpets and any fabrics in the home hold the smoke smell. Let’s talk about how carpets and flooring hold pet odors from, you know, pet urine and problems that the pets have had in the house.
Let’s talk about when they change their carpets and their flooring, that they need to seal the subfloor with a paint or something to keep the odors that have gone into the concrete or the wood sealed away. Let’s talk about the fact that people go, as the commercials say, they go nose-blind. They don’t smell it. They don’t think their house smells like an ashtray. They don’t think their house smells like 15 cats.
We have to be honest with people and talk about for sale by owner houses, and how that’s just not going to happen and it’s not going to be really good for them.
So anyway, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. Please don’t put like 17 Glad things on the wall and try to cover it up because we just see all the air fresheners, and we know better, and we can still smell it.
For sale by owner. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There will be another “Realty Idea of the Day” posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Who’s Your Mentor
Hey everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is “Who’s Your Mentor?” Let’s give credit where credit is due.
Let’s talk about the people or person in our life that give us such leadership, and such good guidance that you consider them a mentor in your world. This could be anybody living/dead, somebody who’s religious, somebody who’s not. It’s totally your call, but let’s give credit, and shine out the fact that we are always in growth mode, we are always being educated. And that this person or persons have done an amazing job for us. And then let’s talk about where people can go to be mentors to others in the community: the Boys & Girls Club, the Lyons Club, any sort of situation where, maybe you’re willing to be a mentor to somebody in the real estate community.
So let’s talk about mentorship, let’s talk about being stewards of our community. And let’s ask our sphere where they would want to be a mentor, or who’s been a mentor in their life. So, this is a great dialogue question. Put this out to everybody. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Up & Coming
Hey, everybody. It’s Bob McCranie, with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is Up and Coming areas in your town. So, there’s always a cycle of development, appreciating values, declining values, renovation, or revitalization. Every community has that parabola, being new, being at their apex, starting to decline, and then having to go through revitalization. So, where are the areas in your town that are about to have to go through revitalization? Where maybe the values of the homes are depressed because the neighborhood needs some cleaning up?
So, people love to give in on that and they love to be part of that community growth and revitalizing it, and having their home be a place of pride in their community because they’re willing and the first to change the landscape and they repaint. And it also makes the area more affordable. So, and people in those areas, tend to have more appreciation because as the neighborhood revitalizes, it’s great for home values. So let’s talk about up and coming places in our community. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
ManiPedi
Hey, everybody. It’s Bob McCranie, with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is Mani-Pedi. Now, the guys out there may be going, “Oh, I don’t want to talk about that.” But, do you know nail salons are a multibillion-dollar industry in this country and others? So, if you have people moving into your area, let’s show them the best place to get their nails done. Let’s show them the best day spa, let’s show the best nail techniques that are out there. Again, we’re not selling a three-bedroom, four-bath house, we are just selling the lifestyle of how people will live when they move to your community.
And, trust me, there are a lot of guys out there getting their nails done too. Because everybody loves a really good hand massage and a really good foot massage. So Mani-Pedi places, nail salons in your area, day spas, let’s cover them, let’s take pictures, and let’s post them out to our sphere of influence, and teach people what it’s like to live in your town. Bob McCranie. There will be another realty idea of the day posted here, tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Photo Websites
Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is photo websites.
Now, probably about, what, 9, 10 years ago, you had things like Photobucket and Flickr, and you could upload your photos and make albums. And that was before Facebook really came along and made their own albums. Now, everything is albums and photos and stuff. You have Pinterest. You have Tumblr. You have Instagram. There’s probably a hundred I’m not thinking of. There’s scrapbooking and things of that nature.
So let’s talk about photo websites. Maybe we can go out on each of them and give a sample. Maybe we can do a little video online demonstration. Let’s talk to our sphere about where to post pictures. And let’s also talk to our sphere about taking pictures of their home every year for insurance purposes and just to remember what the house looked like eight years ago. Every year, on a certain day, maybe you remind people, “Go take pictures of everything in your house. Don’t try to clean it up because, God forbid, if there’s a fire or a problem, you’ll actually wanna remember what things were there. And if you clean it up, you won’t know.”
So photo websites, let’s talk about taking pictures of your house and let’s get people talking. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Washers & Dryers
Hey, everybody. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and yesterday we talked about refrigerators. But, today’s Realty Idea of the Day is washers and dryers. So, a lot of them are really expensive, but the most efficient ones are worth it.
We need to talk about what’s the difference between a top load and a front load. What are the struggles with each? Ask people. Have a poll. Hey, do you like your front-loading system, or do you like your top loading system? Do you have stackables? Is that something that’s trending in your area? This would be something that would be great as a question to your sphere, to ask which one do you like? What do you prefer? What brands do you like?
Also, again, if you’re at the appliance store like we talked about yesterday with refrigerators, go down there and look at the different models. A lot of them have gotten really high tech. The water levels are different, they save water now. Obviously, you have the pods. Instead of just dumping in the Tide Power, you have pods and stuff like that.
So let’s talk about laundry. Let’s talk about the need to get it done and how these machines will help and help you save money. Take care. Bob McCranie. There’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
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