Fair Housing and buyer letters to seller with offer

Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions coming at you with your dynamite tip of the day. Today’s tip is on fair housing and, more specifically, letters. I get this question all of the time. If I represent a buyer, should I encourage my buyer or even allow my buyer to write a letter expressing to the seller how …

Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you

Hi, everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions coming at you with your tip of the day. I want to put in a plug for the Real Estate Educators Association. As I think back over my career, for whatever reason, a lot of people have asked me in the last couple of weeks, “How did you start out as a …

Ninja Road Warrior Tip of the Day: Plan, plan plan

Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions coming at you with your ninja road warrior tip of the day. Okay, so this might sound really, really obvious, but I’ve had so many situations where if I had just taken a little more time to check and verify things and communicate well and just check what I’ve written down, it …

Mastering your morning

Hi, everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions, coming at you with an important thought for the day. In my book, Burn the Hamster Wheel, I talk about strategy number one is master your morning, and then strategy number two is time blocking. I talk about this little number right here. This is called the Panda Planner. I have been …

Realtor Safety: taking buyers in your car

Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions, coming at you with your Dynamite tip of the day. Today’s tip is on safety. I’m curious, and I’d actually love to have you comment below, whether or not you take buyers, you personally, take buyers in your car when you’re out showing them property or if you have a different protocol, …

Realtor Safety Tip: keyboxes

Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton with Dynamite Productions coming at you with your safety tip of the day. September as you well know, probably by now hopefully, is safety month. Here’s a tip that came out of a course that I taught a week ago that I think is a phenomenal idea that we all should be employing year-round. Let’s say …

Safety Matters: don’t text and drive

Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions coming at you with your dynamite tip of the day. Today we’re talking more about safety. One of my core four topics that I absolutely love to talk about and we’re going to talk about something that you should be employing all year-round, not just during the month of September. That is …

Be Deeply Committed to Learning

Hi, everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions coming at you with your Dynamite tip of the day. Going off of what we talked about last time with competence comes a deep commitment to learning. I personally believe that education is the key to having absolutely everything you want in your real estate career. A little secret for you, when …

To be good you need to do it more than part time

Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions, coming at you with your dynamite tip of the day. We were connected and on the same page Last week I was on the phone with the association executive for a state that has a lot of real estate professionals, and he happens to have a Ph.D. in education. We were talking …