For one real estate professional, becoming less independent was the first step to a better life – and a more profitable business.
By K.K. Snyder
Though the real estate industry can be highly competitive, some professionals are finding great benefit in being part of a well-oiled realty team. As a result, they’re enjoying much greater success than they had on their own.
For a real estate professional who is an industry veteran, juggling dozens of listings and clients can become impossible. But enlisting the help of other agents can pay off for …

Teaming Up
For one real estate professional, becoming less independent was the first step to a better life – and a more profitable business.
By K.K. Snyder
Though the real estate industry can be highly competitive, some professionals are finding great benefit in being part of a well-oiled realty team. As a result, they’re enjoying much greater success than they had on their own.
For a real estate professional who is an industry veteran, juggling dozens of listings and clients can become impossible. But enlisting the help of other agents can pay …

By Casey Reagan
It’s no secret that technology has changed the real estate brokerage business dramatically, but what, exactly, is technology? Is it PDAs, cell phones and computers? Is it software?
While those answers aren’t really wrong, they don’t get precisely to the point. Technology should be an enabler. That is, it enables you by bringing efficiency and productivity to your everyday life and business. Regardless of the size or shape of the box it comes in, useful technology must enable you to do more.
That definition should be the core criterion for …

By K.K. Snyder
In 1998, Mayor Richard Daley’s plans to transform the Chicago Housing Authority by creating mixed-income developments prompted the issuance of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a mixed-income neighborhood on the city’s South Side to include a fixed number of replacement public housing units. Chicago development company Thrush Homes’ staff knew they could create what the city wanted. Besides, Thrush had been a pioneer in urban living for more than two decades, building new developments in emerging neighborhoods, and had previously completed four other projects in Bronzeville, considered …

By K.K. Snyder
In 1998, Mayor Richard Daley’s plans to transform the Chicago Housing Authority by creating mixed-income developments prompted the issuance of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a mixed-income neighborhood on the city’s South Side to include a fixed number of replacement public housing units. Chicago development company Thrush Homes’ staff knew they could create what the city wanted. Besides, Thrush had been a pioneer in urban living for more than two decades, building new developments in emerging neighborhoods, and had previously completed four other projects in Bronzeville, considered …