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This week thousands of REALTORS® will descend into Chicago for NAR’s REALTORS® Conference & Expo. This event offers countless opportunities for you to improve your business, grow as a volunteer in the association and build your network of referral

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Through the 1990s and up until the market crash in 2007, the development of condominiums was all the rage. In addition to new condo construction, many old apartment buildings were purchased and converted. But in the past couple of

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Learn how to grow your business through lead-generating open houses. Are you one of those agents who never hold open houses? Perhaps you prefer to spend weekends out with new clients, or maybe you figured out long ago that