

Suspend Your Shoes-Off Rule When Showing Your House
Asking people to take their shoes off is off-putting, inconvenient, truly unnecessary and unsightly. (Nothing says “welcome” like a big pile of stinky shoes scattered around the foyer.) And you want you buyers to feel at ease, not vulnerable!

We're On Your Side
Your agent is your ally. Your friend. Your advocate. She’s on YOUR SIDE and committed to your progression and happiness.

Make Your Agent Your BFF
When buyers and sellers are less than forthcoming, the results can be less than ideal.

Seven Secrets to Seller Success and Satisfaction
Your agent loves you like nobody else. I am your biggest fan and I am likely the only professional – during your entire lifetime – who will love you as unconditionally as an ideal mother.

Working Girls (or Two or More is Like None)
Hooking up with two agents in San Francisco is like dating two people in a small town.


Never Mind My Pliers. Just Open Wide.
All you screenwriters out there: Please consider letting your next powerful, sassy and beautiful heroine have a career as a real estate agent.


Who's Your Biggest Fan?
"Your psychotherapist will (hopefully) listen for 50 minutes once a week. But the list of folks who’ll put up with your prattling stops there. Except for your Realtor."

Home Sellers’ Blindspots
You have turned lemons into lemonade…But just because you like doing dishes by hand doesn’t mean buyers are going to embrace a kitchen without a dishwasher.




Look Softly
Take a deep breath before entering any property and detach from the impulse to evaluate.


Blessings Not In Disguise
The essential problem with off-market sales is that...somebody feels like something was unfair.


Re-la-tor not Real-tor
I am surprised but forgiving (as I suppress a desire to either laugh or be offended) when anybody suggests I’m only in it for the money.

It's Raining
"When rain pounds down for seven solid weeks, water is going to find new places to go."