Dishin' Dirt with Gary Pickren

Send us Fan Mail As more homeowners add solar panels to their homes, I examine how panels affect real estate closings.  In this podcast I discuss how some restrictions can prevent a homeowner from adding solar panels to their home. I also discuss issues that a seller faces in selling a house with solar panels. Does the seller have to pay off the solar panel lease before conveying? Is the lease agr...

Send us Fan Mail SPECIAL SELLER EDITION: Homeowner: If you are thinking about selling your home without using a real estate agent (also known as For Sale by Owner ) then you will want to listen to this Podcast. While Blair Cato strongly recommends that you hire a qualified, licensed real estate agent, we recognize sometimes you may be selling to a family member or friend or you maybe the DYI kind...

Send us Fan Mail Representing someone going through a divorce can be very difficult. In fact 50% of all transactions involving a person in the process of getting a divorce does not close with the first listing agent.  This podcast discusses the issues you need to recognize and strategies for handling closings in which your client is divorcing or divorced. Whether the divorce was recent or many yea...

Send us Fan Mail I said it.  Your Repair Addendum Sucks!  It really does. From incomplete to nonsensical to the outright inaccurate. As an industry, most agents admit to receiving or even writing less than stellar repair addendum. This week's podcast looks at some of the worst examples of repair addenda, discusses the root cause of poorly written request as well as how to professionally prepa...

Send us Fan Mail FAIR HOUSING AND ADVERTISING. Today what you say and write in real estate is being dissected more and more.  If you advertise using prohibited words or in an improper manner you can find yourself in hot water even if you never intended it to be discriminatory. This Podcast examines  what is a protected class,  the words that are commonly used which are troublesome and phrases that...

Send us Fan Mail So you think you are great at sales.   What could a nationally renowned coach have to say about 2021?   Check out this MUST listen to episode of Dishin' Dirt.  All the way from California, Dr. Cindy McGovern, the First Lady of Sales and Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author of "Every Job is a Sales Job," joins me to discuss real estate sales techniques in 2021.  T...

Send us Fan Mail TAX DEEDS/TAX SALES. When real estate is hot, investors turn to purchasing property at tax sale. However, selling property that was purchased from a tax sale is very difficult. If you represent a seller or buyer of tax property you may be committing professional malpractice in the manner you handle the transaction. Erica Lybrand of Blair Cato Pickren Casterline joins me today to d...

Send us Fan Mail Multiple offers is a great thing to get in real estate transaction when you are the seller. But as an agent do you understand the laws and ethical duties surrounding multiple offer situations? For example, are you required to disclose multiple offers to a potential buyer? Can you even disclose and what terms can you provide? In this podcast learn how you are to legally and ethical...

Send us Fan Mail If you are working with a buyer or seller who is considering seller financing there are many issues that you need to understand. You need to know the pitfalls and risks in seller financing as well as the three basic types of seller financing common in South Carolina. In this episode I discuss the three types of seller financing and discuss the benefits and risks of each. Also in t...

Send us Fan Mail The South Carolina  Residential Property Disclosure Form offers three responses for the seller: yes, no and no representation. But does answering the questions about the condition of the property with "no representation" comply with the law and is its use ever proper?  Does it increase or reduce a seller's liability. Plus, does the seller need to disclose items that...

Send us Fan Mail How much time do you need to waste growing your business before you realize there just might be a better way. Stephen Cooley, the #5 agent in the world at Keller Williams tells us several ways to grow your business and stop wasting your valuable time doing tasks that others should be doing.  Stephen shares his many years of success in become one of the top agents in the World! Als...

Send us Fan Mail THIS IS A MUST LISTEN FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS! Today I discuss who is exempt and who is not exempt from completing the South Carolina Seller Disclosure Form . I also have added a new feature called " What Happened While you Were Showing. " In this feature I discuss what the Real Estate Commission is doing to you or for you while you were out showing properties. This week...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Dishin' Dirt, the #5 real estate agent in the WORLD for Keller Williams, Stephen Cooley of the Stephen Cooley Real Estate Group at Keller Williams, joins us to give agents great business advice on how to run a successful business. He focuses on when adding an assistant is good for your business and when and how to form and run a top producing team. Whether...

Send us Fan Mail Real estate listings with video receive more than 438% more inquiries than those without video. Patrick O'Connor and Hannah Norman of the Patrick O'Connor Team-Coldwell Banker are here to tell you how to get started in video and how in his first video he got over 47,000 views in the first two weeks. Also, Eddie Yandle of Executive Construction Homes will join me to tell...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Dishin' Dirt, Brad Allen and I look at the issues involved with representing a buyer who is purchasing a "For Sale by Owner" property.  Over 90% of all "For Sale by Owner" properties are sold to represented buyers. This podcast will help you navigate through the rules, laws and ethics of representing the buyer.  Also in this podcast, my...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Dishin' Dirt, South Carolina real estate attorney/broker/instructor- Gary Pickren dishes the dirt on real estate "wholesaling" with special guest,Candice McCuien. Is wholesaling legal? Should real estate agents be involved in wholesaling? What does a real estate agent need to know about wholesaling? Gary also shares his Corona Crazy Closing experi...