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Welcome to Ilyce Glink's blog! Here you'll find Ilyce's latest insights on personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer issues. Come back often for timely and interesting posts on a wide variety of topics.

 

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Housekeeping Tips

Unfortunately, the Forum is still down at ThinkGlink.com. (Thank you, hackers.)

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The ThinkGlink.com Forum is Down for Maintenance

Hey there, folks. Sorry to say, but the forum has been hacked. We've been working on it and have taken down the site for maintenance and to try and "un-hack" ourselves. We may wind up switching hosts, so please be patient.

In the meantime, we'll try to keep you updated as best we can with the blog.

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

9 Things You Should Ask Your Listing Agent

I wrote a story last week about some things you should ask your listing agent before you hire them. Here's the link to the story, in case you missed it: http://www.thinkglink.com/Nine_Thing_You_Should_Ask_Your_Agent.htm

The story has generated a fair amount of email from brokers, some of which I'll include in future stories. Strangely enough, I haven't heard from any sellers.

Meanwhile, I thought the conversation was interesting enough to post some of the replies in the new Forum. You can check it out at www.thinkglink.com/forum. To get you going, here's one of the replies I received from a broker in Westerville, Ohio (I have made a few copyedits for clarification purposes):

A very important question you forgot to ask: When you tell me you will represent me as a buyer or seller is there anything that could happen in the future which would cause you to no longer represent me?

NOTE: Every representation agreement I have seen (with the exception of EBA's) contains a renege clause when an in-house (read: double dip) transaction is about to take place. At the same time the Brokerage Firm is doubling its income, both the buyer and seller loose their fiduciary representation and are now working with a Dual Agent Brokerage who can not represent either party.

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Think Glink Forum

If you're wondering where I've been with the Blog, the answer is in the Forum. Literally.

We've started a Forum at ThinkGlink.com, and I've been busy posting answers to questions in any number of topics.

Check out what's going on at www.thinkglink.com/forum. See you online.

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I just read your article on how to select the right agent. While I agree with you on most of it. I think your comment about lockboxes is very shortsighted. The only way to comply with being at your listing to show the home to all buyer's agents when they want to view it will only work if you only have perhaps one listing and you aren't working with any buyers. If you have 15-20 listings or more and most very sucessful agents do. The odds of having no conflicting visits between properties is infinitestimal and since most sellers use the listing agent as their buying agent. When will you get the time to show them houses? Do we neglect one client for another? I think you should take another look.

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