Woodinville “Hottest Homes” Tour - Coming October 25 - RSVP Now

October 21st, 2008 by Samuel Hilbert

Our team of Realtor’s is excited to host the first ever Woodinville “Hottest Homes” Tour coming up this Saturday, October 25.  Come join us this Saturday at 11 AM as we leave from downtown Woodinville and take you to some of the best values in the Woodinville area. We will be showing some of the best values in this area…including pre-foreclosures, short sales, and bank owned properties and fixers. The tour will be approximately 90 minutes and will include information on Rehab loans and other creative ways to obtain financing and get the deal closed on these homes!

You must RSVP by October 24.

For more details or to RSVP contact Samuel Hilbert by email at samuel@agentsamuel.com or by phone at 425-939-0890.

We’ll see you Saturday!

My Take on Online Brokerages

May 29th, 2008 by Samuel Hilbert

The blog spheres have been going crazy with talk in the past 48 hours with the recent DOJ decision that allows online brokerages to have much more freedoms having access to listing databases. After a day and a half of thinking about it…I figured I would weigh in on online brokerages. Unfortunately, I don’t have the most popular opinion among many of the “traditional real estate” agents so may take some flack in the future for this post…but here goes…

As a full service real estate agent…I don’t understand why we would want to stifle a service that actually helps the consumer. Yes, an online brokerage will provide strong competition to the traditional agents like myself who find our business models challenged greatly. However, it is impossible to deny that real estate is changing. Our industry has always been slow to allow change for fear that it will threaten our livelihood. It is good to see this opportunity for change happening now. …more