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STEVE:  Hi.  I’m Steve Westmark from Counselor Realty.  Thanks for watching my blog this week.  This week, I’m going to talk about experience in real estate.  I picked this baseball field, a Little League baseball field to point out that we all start out somewhere in our careers as a brand new person.  And I started my real estate career back in October of 1973.  Through the years, I’ve learned my craft and now have produced almost 3,000 home sales. 

I think it’s an interesting phenomenon that in baseball when a baseball player hits 3,000 hits, they almost always make it into the Hall of Fame.  I hope that as my career ends and gets to the end that I’ll be a hall of famer in real estate.  But here’s some interesting statistics.  The average real estate agent in the United States sells about seven homes a year.  When you divide that into the total number of transactions, that means that I have over 400 years of experience. 

Now I’m not that old, obviously, but I’ve gained a lot of insight over the years.  So let me hit some of the things that I’ve done as far as experience that I can help people with.  The obvious ones is that I help buyers buy homes and sellers sell their homes.  But let me give you a few ideas of other things that I’ve done.  Here are a few of the areas.  Relocation.  Helping people come in from out of town or people relocating out of the area.  Understanding new construction.  Both helping builders build new homes or buyers buy new homes. 

Working in condominiums.  Working in townhouses.  Understanding lakeshore and the difference in values between the different lakes and the shorelines and deeded shores and non-deeded shores.  Bank-owned sales.  Short sales.  Selling raw land.  Helping people with their raw land develop it and sell off their properties into a subdivision.  Helping people with light commercial.  Selling their office buildings.  Selling a small apartment complex.  Maybe selling marinas, selling storage properties.  Done 1031 exchanges where people exchange for tax benefits from one property into another.  Helping people invest in real estate rentals, whether it be commercial properties or rental properties.

These are just some of the things that I’ve learned over my 30+ years in the business.  And as I help people through their process and helping them understand what’s going to be the best for them, I believe my experience can make them a winner.  So what I’d really love to do is let me go to bat for you and make your house sale or purchase a home run.  Thanks!