{"id":3356,"date":"2008-07-14T07:36:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2008-07-14T07:38:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:38:33","slug":"lets-do-some-survivin-5-free-things-to-do-right-now-to-ensure-you-can-survive-this-here-real-estate-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3356\/lets-do-some-survivin-5-free-things-to-do-right-now-to-ensure-you-can-survive-this-here-real-estate-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Do Some Survivin’: 5 FREE Things To Do Right Now To Ensure You Can Survive This Here Real Estate Market."},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

OKAYfine.  H2s aren\u2019t so practical, are they?   And it\u2019s maybe <\/em>vanity to have an assistant at this point, when you\u2019re down to 20 deals a year.  Maybe it\u2019s stupid to run that display ad in the paper, sharing space with a Realtor or Loan Officer.  But you\u2019re committed, right?  The give and take of this grind is in your blood, and you\u2019re gonna survive this..resurgence of the 1970\u2019s.   <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s figure out how:<\/p>\n

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  1. Ruthlessly Control Your Personal Spending. <\/strong>Thanks to the IRS, I’ve been a low-spending guy anyway. But there was still fat in my budget.  Mint.Com quickly pointed out what I actually<\/u> spent money on.   And there was tons of room to save.   About $700 bucks a month without much lifestyle change.  Each $100 you can save a month is $150 you don\u2019t have to earn. The lower your nut is, the better equipped you\u2019re gonna be.  Having a low cash need = low stress. <\/li>\n
  2. Control Your Environment.  <\/strong>De clutter the hell out of everything.  That stack of \u201cbroker\/agent\u201d magazines?  Pitch.  Everything in your workspace is something that you have to think about and something that siphons mental energy.  Spend 40 minutes pitching damn near everything till you\u2019re down to your computer, family pictures, a pen and paper, and maybe a cup for coffee or water.  Make your workspace look like an Apple commercial, and see what the you get done. <\/li>\n
  3. Lead Generation = 35% of your time, minimum<\/u>. <\/strong>Yeah, deals take longer and are more fragile then ever.  I get it.  But would you sleep better at night with six more fragile deals?   Surely SOME of your deals would close if you had more going.  And, when you learn how to ensure fragile deals are gonna close, well, when the market hits the other end of the cycle, you will be crushing your new competition.   C\u2019mon.  Instead of calling your lender and asking for a status update every three minutes (even though they should be calling you<\/a>), Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    OKAYfine.  H2s aren\u2019t so practical, are they?   And it\u2019s maybe vanity to have an assistant at this point, when you\u2019re down to 20 deals a year.  Maybe it\u2019s stupid to run that display ad in the paper, sharing space with a Realtor or Loan Officer.  But you\u2019re committed, right?  The give and take of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-marketing","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10583,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10583\/next-year-were-going-to-splurge-maybe-starting-with-the-twenty-first-thousand-dollars-for-the-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":3356,"position":0},"title":"Next year we’re going to splurge — maybe — starting with the twenty-first thousand dollars for the month","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's my favorite Christmas card this year: I helped Stephen and Suzanne Kranick buy that house in the weeks before Thanksgiving. 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