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Due to the overwhelming success of our last event, we will be running another session at the Apple Store. This time we are going to do a presentation on how real estate agents can adopt the iPhone in to their business. We are thrilled to announce that the Eaton Centre Apple Store will be opened [...]

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What a great discussion we had this past monday on Advanced WordPress topics. I really love these sessions because I never know where they will end up. I always have a rough idea of what I want to cover but depending on who asks what questions, we always end up going down roads I never [...]

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The last tip highlighted a situation where a Supplementary Tax bill had been issued by the City on a property we had sold that was, in fact, occupied by the previous owner during part of this billed reassessment period. Our Buyer is faced with paying the whole bill. I received many comments to that Tip. [...]

Sage Real Estate’s Inman New York 2012 Recap

by Brad Sage February 2, 2012 Marketing

Thank you to all those who came out to this standing room only event. To check out photos from the event go to http://www.facebook.com/sagerealestate. As promised here is the presentation:

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The Sage Second Annual Inman NYC Re-cap

by Brad Sage January 26, 2012 Upcoming Events
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SOLD OUT But there is a waitlist and we typically see a couple of cancelations before the event. If you would like to be one of the first people notified of our future events please sign up for the Sage Inner Circle. We send out event invites to the Sage Inner Circle 24hrs before we [...]

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Intermediate WordPress Coaching Session Notes

by Brad Sage January 24, 2012 Blogging
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Thank you to everyone who came out today to the group coaching session on WordPress. For those of you who could not attend, here are the notes from today’s session. Setting up a self-hosted WordPress blog: Register domain name through GoDaddy.com Register both .com and .ca for minimum of 2 years; don’t buy into any [...]

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Larry’s Coaching Tip #14 | As Roseanne Roseannadanna says…

by Larry Sage January 17, 2012 Larry's Coaching Tips
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“If if ain’t one thing, it’s another!” Okay folks, I had another one thrown at me this week.  Think it worth sharing. We sold another broker’s listing.  It closed just fine.  This happened one full year ago! Apparently the Sellers had made substantial renovations to the property. They then lived in the house for some [...]

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Twitter Defined In Less Than 250 Words

by Brad Sage January 9, 2012 Marketing
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Twitter is a social network which integrates text messaging and blogging. You will commonly hear it referred to as ‘micro-blogging’. The premise is to answer the question ‘What has your attention right now?’ or, ‘What do you have to say?’ in 140 characters or less. Tweets are entirely text-based but often include a link to [...]

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Larry’s Coaching Tip #13 | Beware of the Posted Listing Trick

by Larry Sage January 3, 2012 Larry's Coaching Tips
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Don’t even get me started on what a colossally bad idea the posting of listings is for everyone concerned. The government of Canada requiring us to allow unrepresented Sellers the opportunity to place their properties on MLS so that fully represented Buyers can jump at the opportunity to exercise their finely honed negotiation skills till [...]

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Larry’s Coaching Tip #12 | You Better Fess Up If You Know!

by Larry Sage December 16, 2011 Larry's Coaching Tips
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Let me tell you a story. It happened to us a while ago but it’s true and lessons taught most certainly still apply. We had a listing. Newish house. Good street. Hot market. We listed it for $1.2M. Multiple offers. One of the offers came in at one million, four hundred thousand dollars ($1.4 M). [...]

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