Monthly Archives: January 2019

Market worries are keeping homeowners from selling

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Using housing data from 50 largest cities across the United States, Lending Tree determined that the average American homeowner stays in their home for seven years. Continue reading →

LionDesk’s suite of tools now available to CRMLS members

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As part of the ongoing effort to serve its 96,000 members, California Regional MLS (CRMLS), the nation’s largest, has established a relationship with LionDesk, a popular customer relationship platform for real estate agents. Continue reading →

After Loss, Finding Peace in Art and Nature

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Illustrator Nancy Carlson vividly remembers the spring day in 2007 when she simultaneously felt like “the happiest person in the world” while at the same time experiencing an odd sensation that everything was about to change. “My husband Barry was outs… Continue reading →

Ways to Cope When You Are Out of Work

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(This article is excerpted from the forthcoming book, Out-of-Work to Making Money: 21 Comeback Stories Every Job Hunter Should Hear.  ©Copyright 2018 Aboon books.) I lost my job (at IBM) and then had a horrible stay in Unemploymentville. After writing … Continue reading →

How Employers Can Help Caregivers for a Win-Win

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If American employers embraced the recommendations of a new Harvard Business School report, life could be a lot easier for workers who are also unpaid caregivers. And the companies’ bottom lines would benefit as well. That’s according to the report’s a… Continue reading →

Why Retirement Planning Is Different From Financial Planning

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During my working years, I paid for three independent financial planning sessions — the last after the 2008 financial collapse, to assess the damage. But only when my employer of 20 years wiped out my job in a budget cut in 2017 did I experience the re… Continue reading →

Is ‘coming soon’ marketing a waste of time?

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Do “coming soon” signs work, or are they just a waste of time? Hear how Dustin Fox, a D.C. agent with $40 million in annual sales, uses pre-listing marketing campaigns to get a big chunk of business. Continue reading →