Perrysburg Blog

I usually have a slew of real estate meetings that all fall in January.  This year was no exception.   Cyberstars – an industry mastermind group that I am part of was in Fort Worth, Inman Connect a brokerage/industry conference was in Manhattan earlier last month.  Add in a REO conference and a CRS conference (which I could not make this year . . . but usually go to) and it’s a lot of travel compressed in a brief time.

My take-aways and how they will impact the real estate industry and Perrysburg market:

1. Mobile – whether it’s mobile advertising, mobile video taking, mobile presentation of offers/contracts is accelerating.  I now assume buyers and sellers have internet enabled mobile devices.  How mobile are things going?  I am now taking earnest money and rent payments on my iPhone.  This tool is how . . .  

2. Perrysburg is a great place to call home and to travel from – DTW is so close and yet we don’t have to deal with Detroit congestion.  We have it good.

3. We have multiple offers on great listings.   Many markets have multiple offers on EVERY listing.

4. Video.  Google’s full integration of social media into search is intersecting with the multiplicity of video cameras extant (they are on just about every phone now) and driving video/YouTube stats into the upper atmosphere.

5. No one at any of my meetings/conferences/confabs talked about interest rates, overcoming buyer interest rate problems, finding creative financing solutions.  I guess that when interest rates are about 3% no one has any interest rate ideas.

6. Unoccupied homes are the poison in the market . . . in any market.  1.5% empty is supposed equilibrium.  We “should” hit that in 2 years nationally.  Perrysburg?  Less than 1% by my guess.

7. Facebook is getting more and more business savvy – and they will need to leverage a lot of advertising dollars to support their IPO valuation.   Look for more FB products, ads, services, and tie-ins.  Especially in my industry – real estate as Farmville gets old after a while.

8. Did I mention that it’s great to live in Perrysburg?  It is.  Travel is nice – for a while.  But what a blessing to have a great home town in the great state of Ohio in the greatest country in the world.

First of all, this is real hardship duty.  Leaving frigid Ohio and visiting Arizona.

Second of all, it’s a great meeting, one I try to make every year.  150 of the most aggressive, technologically advanced, successful Realtors in the country.  I am glad that they let me sneak in.

My early take:  2 camps.  Those that have seen the Light of Apple.  And those that are still stuck with a broken Window.

There are still agents in markets with multiple offers and growing value.  I think all three of them are here.

A LOT of great tips and tools and tactic.

This was the view from my hotel as I left this morning – the Four Seasons Scottsdale,  which my Dear Wife fantastically found at a huge discount.   Mountains.  The thing anyone from Northwest Ohio CANNOT take their eyes off of.