Business

We’ve been slacking on blog posting lately. That is because we’ve been swamped! I think the last 6 weeks have been our busiest ever, and in addition to that we started our own real estate brokerage. I (Keith) made the transition to Great Rock Realty 5 or 6 weeks ago in to get things started. Read More

Well, here we are at the end of another year! It’s a great time to look forward to the coming year and think about what you would like to accomplish in 2013. It’s also a great time to look back and see how you did on your 2012 goals. If you aren’t a goal setter, Read More

I love the Holidays, It’s a time of year when people seem to be happy to give and help others. In fact, we’ve rung bells for the Salvation Army at Millers & Sons Supermarket twice in the recent weeks, and I’ve been amazed at the generosity of people in our small town of Verona! Although, this spirit of giving, Read More

Great service is very important. We have had the opportunity to work with lots of service providers around Madison, Verona, and all of South Central Wisconsin. We’ve built relationships and stayed in touch with quite a few of the great service people who have provided our clients (and us personally) great service. In fact, here’s Read More

Most of you have heard of The Golden Rule; “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” As far back as I can remember this rule has been engrained in my brain. I don’t know whether my parents taught it to me or if I learned it from a Sunday school teacher Read More

I have had quite a few people ask how we managed to begin our career as real estate agents in the worst possible market and grow to be successful in just a few short years. I tell them, it’s quite simple… We provide great service. I’m sure there are lots of other factors too. Our Read More

This is our 100th post! In the short time we’ve been blogging, we’ve seen our readership numbers drastically increasing and we are approaching our 10,000th view. Thank you to all of our readers for paying attention to what we have to express. We hope you are enjoying our information on real estate, finances, investments, and Read More

I recently listened to a real estate agent training podcast that said this: “Fear is the biggest motivator in the world…  Go out and buy yourself a brand new BMW, a 7 series, and then find out how much fear you have when you’ve got to make that $1000-$1200 payment. Put yourself in a mode Read More

At the end of last year we posted some goals for 2012. Amazingly, as of June 18th we hit our real estate sales goal for the entire year. In May, we ranked in the top 5 of our office for sales, falling just behind some of the big name teams in Madison. What an awesome Read More

We love what we do, and we are usually talking about the great things in real estate. However, I thought it would be entertaining to share some of our gripes about the real estate business. Hopefully this will give a few people in the business new perspective, so they can make some improvements. 1. Unresponsive Read More