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Open Homes Timing - Perhaps It's Time for Another Look

  The prevailing wisdom has long been, that Open Homes should be held on Saturday & Sunday. The logic appears to be: Workers are most often available on weekend days. Part-time agents are usually only available to have open homes on weekends. It is easier for property owners to vacate during open homes on weekends. As is the case with most "Long Held" beliefs, there is truth in the above, however, it does not present the whole story. Let's examine each of these: Many retail workers now work half of their work hours on weekends. Part-time agents have been dropping from the agent's work pool in ever larger numbers. Forcing property owners to vacate for weekend opens, implies lots of cleanup & organisation. In addition, there are other market variables that can enhance "off-hours" open homes. Off-hours opens have few if any competitors for the buying public's attention. By not having to support more than one open, per weekend day, you could hold 1 h...

How long will New Zealand remain a one-direction property representation country?

  Clearly, something is out of balance in this photo. The party on our left, seems to have a distinct benefit by weight alone. Equally obviously, for a truly balanced outcome, someone is going to need to bring this to equilibrium. Then again, if you are the fellow in the blue shirt and you are representing the party on the left, this image probably looks about right to you, especially if you have a commission riding on the outcome. This rather transparent reference to the current New Zealand property environment is far from new. It is independent of price, because our point of reference is not buyer versus seller, as you might have expected, but rather the inherent benefit to the seller in the property purchase system. In New Zealand, but in few other English speaking countries, the seller has representation by definition and the purchase either represents themselves or traditionally uses a solicitor to try for balance. Indeed, even in the later case, the selling agent can and most...

More Big News: Now When You Want To Suggest An e-Agent Improvement, The e-Agent "Wish List" Is Waiting!

  More Big News: Now When You Want To Suggest An e-Agent Improvement, The e-Agent "Wish List" Is Waiting! The team at e-Agent is dedicated to not only providing the best eLearning system available, but to listening to suggestions from our users and making appropriate changes and improvements.  For us to receive such feedback, we needed to create a "Road Map" that provides you with an easy means for providing suggestions; a means for your fellow eLearners to show their agreement and to offer a measure of priority.  With this new road map, that we are calling our e-Agent wish list, you tell us what you would like to see added to our system; we review the suggestions that have support from other users and then make the magic happen.  The screenshot below provides a peak at this system, but the new ideas and recommendations must come from you. In order to reward your use of this system, any and all wish list entries, that end up being implemented, will receive one of...

Big News: A Face-2-Face Blended Learning Option Comes To The e-Agent Hercules System!

  Big News: A Face-2-Face Blended Learning Option  Comes To The e-Agent Hercules System!   As my old boss, U.S. Airforce General Frank Dillon used to say "The difficult we do today, the impossible just takes a little longer". Apparently, thirty years later this truism still holds. We have been providing online REA approved CPD for over a decade now and improving our delivery systems all along the way. We have gone from using other people's online learning platforms; taking in tons of suggestions; feedback and requested improvements, all the way to now, finally presenting course materials on our 100% in-house developed Hercules platform. But, we are not done! It is now time, given a hopefully waning Covid pandemic, to focus on letting people have a more interactive blended experience. We are calling it: "Hercules Office Hours." The Hercules Office Hours experience is with no  additional cost and is not a requirement of mandatory course completi...