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Sometimes we, as Realtors, have our best experiences in real estate when we become the customer. This happened to me recently. I have a rental property that has been rented since I purchased it a few years ago. I have it managed by a professional property management company. In December I received the 30 day notice that my tenant was moving out and moving on. Terror! In this dicey real estate market, what were the chances that I would get my property rented again? I still had photos of the property from when the home was purchased, and since we have a property type in our Multiple Listing System for rental properties, I thought - why not? I didn't want to manage the property myself, but I certainly wanted to help in the marketing of it to get a good new tenant. So, one afternoon I sat down and entered the home into the Albuquerque MLS as a rental available. I put the contact information in for brokers who would see it in MLS to contact my property manager for showin...

Here is a sample copy of my co-authored book on selling your Albuquerque home - If you would like a free copy mailed to you, just let me know and I'll get it to you in the mail right away. Thanks for checking it out! "Get The Best Deal When Selling Your Home", Albuquerque New Mexico edition

Waiting to sell your nest? Remember my interview with KOB here where we talked about not waiting to put your Albuquerque home in the market if you need to sell...."we're going to wait until the market turns around", or "wait until the real estate values go up" Well, I can tell you that odds are if everyone is saying that, you are going to be jumping into the pool at the same time. This will create what I believe is going to be another ripple effect, a bad one, for that old economic issue of Supply and Demand. We are in an information age like no other. Everyone hears the same news at about the same time with the same amount of intensity. So, when we start hearing that 'the market is bottoming out' or 'the market is getting better' we might be kidding ourselves to think that we are going to be the only smart guy in the room who will put their house on the market at just the right time. I believe there is a large pool of individuals out the...