Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Making real estate portable
My business is very portable. Last Friday, while I was in my car headed to a local coffee shop to write an offer for a buyer, I moved my business from Keller Williams, a national franchise with independently owned and operated offices all over the country, to a tiny boutique brokerage in my hometown.

As my new broker transferred my license, his tiny company grew by 33 percent with a couple of keystrokes and the $20 he had to pay the state. He got his broker's license the same year that I got mine. While mine got dusty, he started a real estate company ... CONTINUED


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