You’re in the right business when as a managing broker you receive emails like the following… Good morning, I would like to communicate the outstanding work Sydney has done as our realtor. It was a long tough ride dealing with the obstacles on our house purchase. She kept me going when times were tough and [...]
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Georgia Non Competes: Do the Risks Outweigh the Benefits?, guest post by Justin Daniels
The most recent Atlanta Business Chronicle included an article that SunTrust was relieving certain of its corporate officers from their non compete agreements. The article further discussed the most important aspect of non competes when you hire a chief executive officer or a salesperson in Georgia. In our state, non competes are very difficult to enforce, more importantly, a bad non compete also results in a court throwing out a perfectly enforceable non solicitation provision. What SunTrust and other companies are appreciating is that relationship driven businesses are usually better off leaving out a non compete rather than risk losing an enforceable non solicitation clause if a court finds a non compete unenforceable.
Maxsell Real Estate Climbs Top Real Estate Blog Ratings
Maxsell.net moves up 14 spots from 42 to 28 on Jon Washburn’s Top Real Estate Blogs. Sorry we could not make the ceremony, so we sent Halle Berry to accept on our behalf. Our acceptance speech…we’d like to thank mom, dad, God above, our fantastic agents, our partners in the industry, the academy, Active Rain, [...]
Open Source Real Estate
Let me start this post with a very important message… the following tools and resources are not necessarily better than what you are already using. There is no substitute for comfortably when using technology tools. If your current set of tools works for you, then don’t bother trying these suggestions. But if you are looking [...]
4Realz Roundtable lands Lawrence Yun
Lawrence Yun is the Managing Director of Quantitative Research Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research at the National Association of REALTORS®, where he manages the Statistics and Forecasting Groups of the Research Division. He writes regular columns on real estate market trends, creates NAR’s forecasts, and participates in many economic forecasting panels, including [...]
Brad Nix becomes Agent Genius
I’m not blowing my own horn (although I’m not above that), I am truly honored to become a writer for Agent Genius. Agent Genius is the first multi-author real estate blog designed by and for real estate agents nation wide. Unlike other real estate blogs that blog at the consumer, we blog beside the consumer. [...]
Maxsell hires Service Oriented Agents
Maxsell Real Estate has never advertised to recruit agents. We built our model to succeed with a small number of Realtors. We are not a multi-level marketing gimmick, we don’t hire for numbers, we never go for quantity over quality and quite frankly…we are snobbish about who we hire. We only want individuals with the [...]
Small Brokers vs Large Brokers
As owner and broker of small boutique brokerage firm, I am constantly asked if smaller is better. I am obviously biased on this answer, but thought I’d share some thoughts on the subject anyway. I read this morning that GMAC real estate may be sold. Before I started Maxsell Real Estate, I worked for GMAC. [...]
Maxsell reaches first page of Google for ‘Canton Real Estate’
Maxsell Real Estate makes the first page of Google for the search phrase ‘canton real estate‘! In fact we are #8 and #9 for Canton Real Estate. See Google results for yourself. Our goal is to have Maxsell Real Estate on the first page for Canton Real Estate, Woodstock Real Estate, Marietta Real Estate and [...]
NixQuips from GAR Conference
In an attempt to ape Jeff Turner’s coverage of NAR using Utterz, I will be interviewing Cherokee Association of Realtors (CAOR) members in attendance at this year Georgia Association of Realtors Conference (GAR) in Hilton Head, SC. As 2nd Vice President of CAOR, my goal is to learn more about our current members and why [...]