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Portland Multiple Offer Index

The MOI is made up of keyword search in the MLS and the daily pendings to make imperfect but consistent method of determining the likelihood of multiple offers. The highest number is 100 and the lowest is 0. Curious about some more numbers? Check out mikecandoit.com/pending to see Portland daily pendings and the 7-Day Portland […]

Episode #80 – John Steele – Assistant to Top Producer

John and his wife Melissa went from selling 2 homes in the last six months of 2015 to selling 67 homes ($42 million) in 2020. We cover a lot of his journey including finding out what worked best for them. Getting into real estate Taking a pay cut to be an assistant The first two […]

Book Club – Never Split the Difference

In the inaugural episode of Book Club, I share my thoughts with this great book on negotiation from Chris Voss who is a former FBI hostage negotiator. On this episode I talk about my disdain for the “tie-down,” trying to get yeses and why no may be better, odd numbers and illuminating the path. Everyone […]

Making Over $100k With Just Referrals

Marguerite Martin has a website, MoveToTacoma.com that generates leads that she refers out to other agents. She doesn’t show any homes, write contracts or any of that dirty work. She looked at what her gifts were and leaned into them. You can find her on LinkedIn, her website and you can check out her blog […]

Mike Simonsen, The Surprising Way The CEO 10X Profits

In this wide ranging interview, we talk about: What real estate stats are worth tracking The one stat you might think is important but isn’t The three questions every agent needs to be able to answer Making tough calls Hacking Happiness How he 10X his business without changing the company You can find Mike Simosen […]

Episode 69: Dena Bell

Dena Bell is the better half to Mac Bell who I’ve had on the podcast a couple of times. He deals with the spoken word and she covers the written word which they use to team up at their company Bigfoot Business Development. We talk about writing your own bio, stats about writing and converting, […]

Episode 68 – Eisenhower Decision Matrix

Real estate in itself can be overwhelming and when you add the rest of the chaos of life. Here’s how to priortize and figure out how to organize your tasks and goals. Using the Eisenhower Decision Principle, tasks are evaluated using the criteria important/unimportant and urgent/not urgent, and then placed in according quadrants in an […]

Urgently Patient

One of the 47 lessons I have on my free real estate training site is about being urgent and patient. Or as Gary Vaynerchuck phrases it, “microspeed and macropatience.” Check out the the site and my podcast about it balancing the two pieces to be effective.

Mac Bell Returns To The Podcast

Mac’s episode is the most downloaded podcast of any of my episodes by twice the episode! So I thought it would be a good idea to bring back the Good Guy Caller. Mac shares his experience with making calls during the pandemic, how things are now and then I give him a business idea to […]

Noah Blanton Talking Stats!

I love talking numbers with people and Noah knows his numbers! He is President of WFG National Title and has an MBA in Real Estate Finance. I got to hear Noah recently give an in depth talk about the real estate and what he is seeing. So I quickly asked if he could join me […]

Episode #62 – I Quit

We’ve all thought it. If you are blazing a new trail and it looks like it isn’t working out, quitting crosses your mind. Here are I talk about my tough moments, other people blazing their own trail who almost quit and the hope that success is right around the corner.

Episode 60 – Winning With Multiple Offers

There are several things that you can do to help yourself besides the price: Short inspection period Waive the appraisal Give them occupancy after close Personal letter Be communicative with the other agent Check out the podcast to hear my run down.

False Cognates

A false cognate is when a word in one language appears to similar to another but is nothing like it. You, or someone you know, might have fallen into this trap with the Spanish word “embarazada.” While at first glance it makes perfect sense that this word would be “embarrassed,” you would be embarrassed to […]

7 Reasons Real Estate Agents Fail

These are in no particular order. Slow to start – Too many agents get their license and then say, “Now what?” Then they take months to get “everything right.” There a saying in real estate, “If you aren’t prospecting, you’re on your way out.” Underfunded – In the plainest terms, you don’t have enough money […]

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