Adam Chinn

Has The Market Already Changed? I Think So!
May 17, 2009 · · 4 Comments

I have been working with some clients for the past few weeks. They have been pre-approved for a loan and we have been looking at many homes in hopes of finding them what they are looking for. We find a nice house in Pacifica, they write an offer that is over the listed price. I heard back from the listing agent today, informing me that there have been 20+ offers some of them coming in at about $100,000 over the listed price.   Read more

Kathy Wall

Judging a Book by it’s Cover….Always a Mistake
February 3, 2009 · · 8 Comments

At our office meeting this morning we discussed the fact that a large chain restaurant plans to offer free breakfasts to anyone who comes to their restaurant tomorrow.    I won’t be going, because I have been boycotting them for more years than I can remember, after reading (on many occasions and in several locations) that their corporate culture allowed employees to discriminate again African Americans.   I’ve never gone back since.  

This made me think about how important our public image is and how one wrong move can cost us a customer for life.    We need to be extremely conscious all the time about what we say and how we say it, both with our voices our physical gestures, and our written words.    A silly joke that someone finds offensive or the way we discuss a neighborhood at an open house…almost anything can have the potential to lose a client or hurt someone’s feelings. Read more