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Alice and Waffles are Selling their Home in Fishtown!

Alice and Waffels are selling their home in Fishtown !

Alice and Waffels Gordon St Fishtown

Alice and Waffles are not just another cute face. They live at 2206 E Gordon Street in Fishtown and they are looking to do some business in order to sell their cozy home for $187,500  ! They would love for you to stop by for a visit. One of their favorite features inside their home are the hardwood floors througout including the living room and dinining room. They love eating in their remodeled kitchen but most of all, they are crazy about their large rear yard where they can run and play all day long.

Decorative Cornice at Gordon St Fishtown              

(Decorative Cornice above)             (Remodeled Kitchen)                      (Alice's view of the hardwood)

Their home has a 1/2 bath on the first floor and a full basement with with washer and dryer included. On the 2nd level of Alice and Waffle's home, there are 2 bedrooms and a spacious bath. The home is bright and sunny and in great condition with touches of old world charm and updated in all the righ places.

Click here to see more photos of Alice and Waffles home in Fishtown.

So, dog gone it, if you are looking to purchase a quaint 2 bedroom home in a fantastic neighborhood, Alice and Waffles want to speak to you. Milk bones and belly-rubs negotiable.

The Somers - Chris and Stephanie Somers

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If interested in buying or selling properties in Philadelphia, contact Chris and Stephanie Somers at thesomersteam@yahoo.com or 215-400-2612 . You can connect with us on Facebook and Twitter .  For investment properties, check out our new investor site at Philly Investor Hub !

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Areas of specialty include Northern Liberties, Old City, Center City, Fishtown, Graduate Hospital, Art Museum, Queen Village, Pennsport, Old Kensington, Port Richmond, Bridesburg, Society Hill, Loft District, Spring Garden and more !

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A Port Richmond settlement due to a Google Search and our Active Rain Blog !

A Port Richmond settlement due to a Google Search and our Active Rain Blog

This past week I had a settlement for a property in Port Richmond.  The deal was a super deal as the purchasor was an experienced investor who paid cash with no inspections.  It was also a fast settlement, less than 3 weeks which benefited all the parties involved.  It came about in a typical way as a buyer emailed Stephanie and I with an interest in Philadelphia investment properties (specifically in Port Richmond).  We then referred the buyer to a team member and within a week he moved forward on this Port Richmond property which was also our listing.

But the story gets better !!  At settlement, the buyer asked me if we have had success in short sales.  I said certainly and shared a few examples.  In fact, we just had 2 short sale approvals in the past week (another story) !.  The buyer then proceeded to say that he found us from doing a search on Google for "Philadelphia Short Sales" and found our Philadelphia Real Estate Blog !

Sure enough, I went home and typed that in and saw that this came up on page 1 of Google !

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The real beauty about this is that from our short sale blog, we now have very happy seller clients as far as selling their listing.  In addition, one of our team members now has a very happy investor client who is looking to pick up one property per month ! 

Another huge benefit about internet marketing is that often the leads come directly to you.  I have found as a result that dual agency has been more applicable to us this year, either as individual agents or as an office (this will be the topic of a future post).  I love having a team as those resources are extremely valuable.  This has also become an integral part of our listing presentation as we do not allow any lead to slip through the cracks and we believe through our internet marketing efforts we generate many additional showings than our competition for a listing.  How cool is that ?

To conclude, for those new agents that are just starting to blog, stay with it !  Internet marketing works and Active Rain rocks !

If interested in buying or selling a property in Philadelphia, contact Chris and Stephanie Somers at 215=400-2612 or thesomersteam@yahoo.com.  For Philadelphia investment properties, check out our new site - Philly Investor Hub !

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Listed and Settled in less than 30 days in Port Richmond ! Building a reputation !

Building Your Reputation

As a follow up to a previous post "Are you utilizing your office website (RE/MAX.com) to generate referrals and consumer traffic ? " , we had the settlement today for a referral we received from a California agent less than 30 days ago !  Doing great work for a referral certainly helps build your reputation as a top agent.

RE/MAX.comThe California RE/MAX agent found us doing a search on REMAX.com .  After referring us to the seller, we met and got the property sold in 3 days in Port Richmond.  Obviously the California agent did the research and contacted the right people ! 

The highlight here is the importance of having your profiles set up on all of your websites.  It is amazing on REMAX.com how few agents have their photos and websites up.  This has encouraged us to make sure that our profiles our up to date and so forth.  I still have to our add our RE/MAX Hall of Fame award to many of our profiles !  Not enough time in the day...

In any event, this is another example of nothing happens unless you put yourself out there.  And when you do, good things happen !  Think about the happy parties:

1.  Referring agent - gets a referral check fast and knows his clients were well served !

2.  Seller - Very happy to have a stress-free transaction.

3.  Buyer - Very happy to have found the property they were looking for !

4.  Buyers Agent - Relationship with us has gone up a few notches.

5.  Us - the listing agent - feeling great in that we further increased our networking base and have happy people all around !  Is great for future referral business, not to mention residual business.

What are you doing to build your reputation today ?

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