Tweet Connectivity be damned sometimes.The speed with which we need to operate increases,sometimes it feels as if it is doing so exponentially. In both my personal life and my professional lives,I see more people using mobile devices,from laptops to tablets and everything in between. How to connect when necessary is a big stumbling block for…
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Tech Tip Tuesday : Dragon Dictation
Tweet One of my favorite (and free) tools is Dragon Dictation. It does bring back memories of the days of yore,when people used to dictate correspondence for their secretarial staff to transcribe. Of course,that staff,well its me now. As a busy,and very mobile real estate professional,I find that I often am in a position where…
July Round-Up- latest blog post from Warburg CEO Fred Peters
Tweet By Frederick Peters, President I have received updates from many of my agents about their current experience of the real estate market. Here is what they are telling me: • The rental market is unusually hot. With a vacancy rate under 1%, there is almost no inventory. Rents are therefore high and opportunities scarce….
Manhattan Market Mondays : Make the most out of everyday !
Tweet Mondays are often viewed as the scourge of the week. For those who work a somewhat traditional workweek people seem to dread Mondays. An end to the weekend,the start to another long drawn out week. Sometimes,I must admit ,I am inclined to agree. Other times,I welcome Monday with a smile and a renewed vim…
Tech Tip Thursday : OmmWriter
Tweet For many of us,it seems we are perpetually connected. Ability to be reached,or reached out is to some degree ubiquitous. It makes it incredibly difficult to disconnect, go off grid,or even just ‘mute’ the constant barrage of information (and in many cases,quite honestly,noise). Recently I have taken to minimizing any type of…
Tech Tip Tuesday : …pen to paper ? digitaly ?
Tweet While my love affair with technology is on going.I also enjoy fine writing instruments (or not so fine ones too) and paper. On Tuesday evening,I stopped to sit on the outdoor plaza near the Apple Store on 5th Avenue,across the street from the Plaza Hotel,directly in front of the GM building and near FAO…
Neither a Borrower or Lender Be ? -Latest blog post from Warburg CEO Fred Peters on how to navigate the mortgage process….
Tweet By Frederick Peters,President It has always been true that borrowing was easiest for people who did not need the money. Of course since the Lehman collapse even rich people have not had such an easy time borrowing money. And since Dodd-Frank (the bill which Congress enacted post-meltdown to more closely regulate the banking…
Manhattan Market Mondays : Honesty…handshakes…hugs…
Tweet An interesting week that involved everything from zoning presentations and mortgage updates at this months REBNY Residential Sales Council meeting,to a speaker on personal branding at the July Lucky Strikers Social Media Club meeting,to kris crossing two boroughs and five neighborhoods with clients.All of this lumped together,gave me a lot of food for thought over…
Tech Tip Thursday : Documents on the run….
Tweet One of the things we do most these days when it comes to work,is deal with (far too many) attachments. More and more,as we find ourselves on a variety of mobile devices,we grapple with viewing and perhaps editing these files even. I do this in a variety of ways,today I will focus on Docs…
Why I Write – Warburg CEO Fred Peters -explains his why in his latest blog post !
Tweet This is my 105th blog. I had no idea I had written so many. I started writing the blogs because I wanted to create points of entry for lay people and colleagues alike into what real estate agents do, how we think, and how consumers can more effectively advocate for themselves within the broker/client…
