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How agents can tap into the ‘gold mine’ of divorce listings

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Forget about expired and FSBO listings. If agents can successfully and consistently land divorce listings, their business will boom. Continue reading →

Think before you post! The line between funny and unprofessional isn’t so fine

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The real estate business is insane right now. You’ve got frustrated buyers. You’re (rightfully) frustrated — and humor is a great escape. However, it’s also rife with danger. Here’s why you should think before you post. Continue reading →

Divorcing? Here’s what agents should know about spousal, child support

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For salaried employees, child or spousal support depends on the parties’ combined income. However, for agents with fluctuating income based on commissions, how is that support figure calculated? Continue reading →

How to help sellers (and keep your sanity) through a messy divorce

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Home sales resulting from divorce can be fraught with peril, misunderstandings and anger. Here’s how to navigate through this rocky relationship terrain. Continue reading →

Winter slowing you down? Here’s how to sell faster (and for more)

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Just because the fall market has frozen doesn’t mean your sales have to languish. Here’s how to sell listings like they’re hot even during the chilliest time of year. Continue reading →

How Technology Has Changed Divorce

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Thanks to technology, we can buy groceries online. We can search online for a job, a pet, even a spouse. And if for whatever reason that spouse doesn’t work out, we can go through the divorce process online, too. But when you’re divorcing, can a websit… Continue reading →

Living Through a Lonely Spell

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For one long semester in 1974, my heart was a tomb. I didn’t know a soul on the campus of George Mason University — then, strictly a commuter college in Fairfax, Va. Despite 5,000 students milling around me, I felt like the only person on Earth. Howeve… Continue reading →

How to Be the Mother-in-Law You Always Wanted

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“Someday, some little girl who’s probably not even born yet is going to steal you away from me, and I hate her already.” No, I didn’t say it and I don’t remember even thinking it when my son was born, although when I met my daughter-in law to be, somet… Continue reading →

Two Generations of Divorce: Parents and Their Adult Children

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It may be a bittersweet way to connect with your adult child: he or she comes to you for comfort while going through a divorce because not only are you their parent, you know the pain because you also were divorced. Sometimes parents can let bitter fee… Continue reading →

Separate Homes Help Heal Troubled Marriage

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By the time my husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary a couple of years ago, we were really just two people living together under the same roof. We loved each other deeply and we shared common goals and interests, but we didn’t exactly l… Continue reading →