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Buyers and Sellers Trust David Balliet

David Balliet of Metro Brokers Balliet Realty works with buyers and sellers in the Greeley area.

Hello, I am David Balliet, with Balliet Realty. I am the owner and independent broker with Metro Brokers and my accreditations as far as -- are listed on my website. I have masters of real estate.

My specialties are working with new home buyers -- first time buyers, distressed buyers, and seniors.

I especially like working with buyers and sellers, so if you have a property to list, I'd love to help you right now, give me a call, my number is listed, my e-mail also is shown on the screen.

You can also find me on Facebook, David Balliet or Balliet Realty. You can follow me on twitter at Balliet Realty. Thank you.

Contact David Balliet at Balliet Realty at 970-373-7304 or online at DavidBallietRealty.com

Your Northern Colorado Real Estate Expert

Janet Miller of Metro Brokers AmeriRealty explains the difference it makes to hire a licensed REALTOR® for your next real estate transaction.

Janet specializes in Northern Colorado. Let her help you achieve the American dream of home ownership and real estate investment.

Hello, my name is Janet Miller with Metro Brokers, and I have been a REALTOR® since 1995 and a home owner since I was nineteen, so I most definitely believe in the American dream of home ownership, and real estate investments.

I am a graduate of the REALTOR® Institute and I love working with buyers and sellers of homes in residential acreages. I am licensed for the states of Colorado, but my main focuses is Northern Colorado, because I was born and raised in Weld County and live there today.

My sale success rate is very high, ranging between 98 and 99%, because I really strive to provide my clients with a high level of service. I really want to help you meet your real estate goals.

Most people are not aware that there is a difference between a licensed agent and a REALTOR® A licensed agent has met the basic requirements for the state of Colorado in order to sell real estate for others and be compensated for doing so. A REALTOR®r has gone above and beyond those basic requirements. I am a REALTOR®, and I am very proud of that designation because, as a REALTOR®, I subscribe to a code of ethics to treat all parties fairly and honestly.

I hope you will consider me for your next real estate transaction. I look forward to working with you and helping you achieve the American dream of home ownership and real estate investment.

You can contact Janet Miller at AmeriRealty- 970-302-1452 or online at JanetKMillerRealEstate.com.

Is a Short Sale Right For You?

In this interview for Metro Brokers TV, Steve Konecny talks about short sales and how to decide if this option is right for you.

Hello my name is Steve Konecny. I'm with Metro Brokers Liberty Associates. My office is located 8480 East Orchard Road in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about short sales. A short sale is negotiated by an experienced realtor such as myself using a third party transaction company to see if we can get the bank to negotiate with us to take less than what is owed on your home.

Many folks find themselves in a position today, especially in this market of unemployment, etcetera, where they cannot make their mortgage payment.

A short sale is an alternative to their foreclosure.

If you or someone you know might be in this position, give me a call (720) 936-9975 and let's see if a short sale is an alternative resolution to the position you are in today.

Thank you. Call Steve Konecny at 720-936-9975 for more information on short sales.

Dont Miss the Opportunity to Buy Up in a Down Market!

Now is the time to make that move and get more when you buy in today's market.

Metro Broker Pete Doty has all the resources and experience you need to help you find that perfect home.

Hi I'm Pete Doty. I'm here at the 2011 CAR Convention in downtown Denver, Colorado.

I am so excited about the Denver real estate market, there are two reasons. Number one I saw this in '88 and '89, prices started going down, and they started climbing again. People missed the opportunity to buy up in a down market, and that's really what's going on right now.

We don't have a lot of inventory, we need houses to sell and you can take advantage of the higher price range and get into a house for a lot less than you would have a couple of years ago.

So right now is the time to move! Call Pete at (303) 880-5585, or better yet take a look at my website DenverRelocation.com, as well as my MetroBrokersOnline website. Thanks.

Call Pete Doty at 303-880-5585

Buy from an Expert who Knows Denver!

In this interview for Metro Brokers TV, we meet Metro Broker, Christie Martin. Christie is a native of the Denver area and has been selling real estate for over 20 years.

Hi my name is Christie Martin. I'm with Martin Realty Metro Brokers in the Cherry Creek location at 2^nd and Steele.

I have been in real estate over 23 years, and with Metro Brokers over 20 years. And now is a great time to buy or sell your home with record low interest rates.

So give me a call at (303) 520-0817. Have a great day!

The Advantages of Being a Metro Broker

The 2011 Colorado Association of REALTORS® State Convention was held at the Downtown Denver Sheraton Hotel.

Scott Shields, Corporate Director for Metro Brokers Inc. speaks to us from the convention.

Hi I'm Scott Shields, Corporate Director for Metro Brokers Inc., and I'm down here at the Sheraton in downtown Denver at the Colorado Association of REALTORS® State Convention.

It's been an amazing convention so far, meeting a lot of great realtors and affiliates, talking with them, asking about how the convention is going for them.

What I find surprising though is how many people are unaware of our brand and what our model can do for the realtors in Colorado, so definitely you want to make sure you check out Join Metro Brokers.com for all the benefits and cost-saving tips that Metro Brokers can do for you.

If you want to spend less and earn more, check out Join Metro Brokers.com.

Greg Howard uses The Latest Technology in Real Estate

Metro Broker, Greg Howard of Metro Real Estate Group uses the latest technology to sell real estate across the Denver and Colorado Springs metro areas and the entire front range.

Interviewer: Hi I'm Kathy Soltero with MetrobrokersTV.com, and today in the studio we have with us Greg Howard. He is with the Metro Real Estate Group. Greg, thank you so much for coming in and talking with us.

Greg: Thanks for having me.

Interviewer: Tell me first of all about where you're actually located?

Greg: Our main office is in downtown Colorado Springs at 612 North Tejon. We used to be at 625 and we just recently moved down the street, three blocks.

Interviewer: And you said you are doing a lot more of business here in the Denver Metro area.

Greg: I have, I have spent a long time living here in the South Denver area and I find that I have got more of a client base here currently than I do in the Colorado Springs market. So, even though I'm marketing to the Colorado Springs, I just have a lot going on here.

Interviewer: You drive up and down the I-25 corridor.

Greg: I do, I do. It's not so bad; I am on the North side of the Springs.

Interviewer: You use a lot of technology in your business; tell me a little bit about that.

Greg: I do, it starts off with my website. My website, through my website you can find property searches on anything from way north of Denver all the way to the south side of Colorado Springs, a little bit into the foothills. You can find information about HUD properties. There is a lot of informational videos on there as well. So if you want to know what it takes to buy a HUD property, you can click on that and watch it as well. Other things I do with my website, all my listings get their own private websites, so that I can actually market them and people can find all the information on the house without having to look in at a piece of paper in the yard.

Interviewer: So, automatically when you take a listing and you put it into the MLS or whatever, your website just picks it up right away, and you can create a website for it or.

Greg: I create a website, but it's fairly automated. I have things that I have to enter, and then when I do all my marketing, I market that website and that website takes them directly to the information of the house, pictures, and virtual tours.

Interviewer: What kind of new technology have you really embraced with your real estate?

Greg: Getting away from flyers, that's probably the best thing that's going on right now, you've seen lots of gimmicks that agents have used, I say gimmicks, lots of tools that agents have used to capture leads or capture buyers for their listings. I use what's called the QR code or Microsoft tag on all my listings and on my flyers. If you take a smartphone you can click on that, and I can give you any information I so choose, it can take you to my website or the website of the home or to the virtual tour or can be all the disclosures for the property. So somebody can actually pull up in front of the house and take a picture with their smartphone and they can get all the information they want on the house.

Interviewer: So that works like they just take a picture of it, is that...

Greg: Well, there is actually a...

Interviewer: Is there a scan or...

Greg: Well you basically scan it; there is an app that you have to download in your phone. But it's very easy, you can even go to my website, and get that app, and you just click on it and it automatically directs you to either information or a website.

Interviewer: It sounds to me like, through your website to that, buyers or sellers could look all over the metro area.

Greg: They can, they can, there's really no place from, let's say, Boulder, all the way to the south end of Colorado Springs that they can't view homes.

Interviewer: Tell me what's your website is, so they can go, check it out.

Greg: It's really easy, it's greghowardrealtor.com.

Interviewer: That is pretty easy.

Greg: Yeah.

Interviewer: Greg any other information you want to pass onto customers, as far as how they can get a hold of you.

Greg: My cell phone is a great way to do it, it's area code 719-445-9515 and the other thing is, I am doing a lot of work in the South Denver metro area now so, I'm actually trying to focus on that, so that's just Colorado Springs.

Interviewer: Okay, very good. Greg, thank you so much for joining us again today.

Greg: Very good, it's a pleasure, thank you.

Interviewer: And for more real estate related videos like this one, be sure to tune your web browser to MetrobrokersTV.com.

Seniors Real Estate Specialist

Mary Barela-Cordova is a Seniors Real Estate Specialist who specializes in downsizing. She is the managing broker of Metro Brokers Bear Creek office and handles all types of residential real estate and is an expert working with banks and bank-owned properties, relocations and first time home buyers.

Interviewer: Hi, I am Kathy Soltero with Metro Brokers TV and today we have in the studio with us Mary Barela Cordova and she is with BC Realty. Thank you so much for coming in Mary.

Mary: Hi Kathy.

Interviewer: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your business.

Mary: Well I'm pretty excited because my husband Mike and I just opened up our own Metro Broker office. It's the most recent Metro Broker office opened in the state of Colorado, last July we opened it and we now have 23 agents.

Interviewer: Wow! That's awesome.

Mary: We are very excited, it's a fabulous location, we're in Lakewood and we are right next to Bear Creek, which is great because our name is Metro Brokers Bear Creek.

Interviewer: Very good.

Mary: And then my office is BC Realty because of my last name Barela Cordova but I grew up in the BC, in the Bear Creek area.

Interviewer: Okay, so a lot of identification there.

Mary: Yes, yes so we are very excited.

Interviewer: How long have you been in the business?

Mary: I have been in the business 10 years, and I've been with Metro Brokers for seven and at about year six, no I'm sorry at about year five, I started looking into opening my own office, so we took a little bit of time. And a lot of thought, and lot of planning and it was all set perfect last year.

Interviewer: What about your experience in real estate, what sort of designations do you have in the 10 years you have been in the business, I'm sure you have probably done a lot.

Mary: I have done a lot, I'm a certified residential specialist, I'm an REO certified, which means I work with banks and bank owned properties. And I'm also an SRES, which is a Seniors Real Estate Specialist working with people that are downsizing and that kind of thing. So I also have that designation and I'm a managing broker. So I have eight associates that I manage personally. And one of the big things when we were opening our office is we wanted to make sure that we had people that were positive, energetic, caring people come to our office and that's what I'm looking for with my new brokers and actually I'm looking for more brokers now. So I'm on my way.

Interviewer: That's excellent, you are involved in your community, tell me about some of the programs that you are involved with?

Mary: My husband and I have always been supporters of Colorado Cerebral Palsy. So that's an organization that's very dear to our heart because we have some personal experience there with Cerebral Palsy. And we've always supported them and then once a year, they have an annual car show at the Arapahoe Community College right there in campus. We have a booth there, and we get our name out there, and we get to meet a lot of nice people and it's just for great cause.

Interviewer: So for real estate how is anybody going to get a hold of you?

Mary: Oh wait! We missed one more thing, The Seniors' Resource Center, I am a big supporter there, as well, I'm so sorry.

Interviewer: We know with your designation that's important because you have that kind of connection there.

Mary: Absolutely and I am, have been very involved there, my mother was a social worker there for 20 years and worked with people that have Alzheimer's and stroke victims and I volunteer there and I also helped them, they're building a new building. So I helped to raise money and give money and that kind of thing as well.

Interviewer: How can clients get a hold of you?

Mary: You can always reach me on my cell phone at 303-931-5871. And of course if you Google me, because this is, you know I'm way up there, you are going to see all my information, but certainly you can e-mail me as well at mary.bcrealty@comcast.net. Just like my name of my business.

Interviewer: Okay, well thank you very much for coming in and sharing all that with us.

Mary: Well you're welcome and thank you for asking me to be here and I look forward to helping Metro Brokers grow and now it's a great time to join, it's a fabulous corporation and we're always looking for excited, energetic realtors that want to work with us.

Interviewer: Good, Mary thank you very much for coming in today. We really appreciate, you sharing all that with us.

Mary: You're welcome.

Interviewer: And for more real estate related videos like this be sure to tune in, online to Metro Brokers TV.

Maximize Profits with Mary Ellis

Starting a New Chapter in Life? Mary Ellis of the New Century Group can help smooth the way and meet your goals. Whether it's a new marriage, divorce, retirement or expanding your family, Mary can help you with all your real estate needs.

Interviewer: Hi I am Kathy Soltero with metrobrokerstv.com, and today we're in the studio with Mary Ellis, she is with the New Century Group. Mary, thank you so much for coming in today.

Mary: Thanks for having me.

Interviewer: Tell me a little bit about your business, how did you get started?

Mary: Well, you know I started doing property management when my children were babies as a more flexible career and then it was just kind of an organic transition into real estate sales.

Interviewer: What do you enjoy most about it?

Mary: Well you know real estate involves me and the most intimate details of people's lives, their homes, their money, their families and being involved with people while they are trying to make, meet some goals and make a new chapter their lives is very fulfilling.

Interviewer: Now you have told me about some recent transaction that you had or experience you've had...

Mary: Yeah.

Interviewer: How much that impacted you?

Mary: You know I really love to help people move on, for example I was just working with this lady and she was moving down to a smaller house, retiring after losing her husband and so she had told me her and her son's goal was to maximize profits while having an easy transaction. So they listened to my advice, they priced the home competitively, they cleaned it, they staged it, they went under contract in two weeks.

Interviewer: Wow!

Mary: It closed within six, without any issues.

Interviewer: It still can happen, can't it?

Mary: Right. Indeed.

Interviewer: What do you see are the trends in the business right now, what do you think is happening?

Mary: Well I really see that we're seeing problems in the higher-priced homes with short sales and foreclosures, so that has kind of moved up to a greater than $500,000 market. And also because of the issues with tight credit, we're not seeing as much new construction. So there is really is more resale business going on.

Interviewer: What are the types of customers that you kind of focus on in your business?

Mary: Well I like to say that I'm in the business of change. So typically I'm working with people who are starting a new chapter perhaps they're getting married or they're getting a divorce. They're having babies or their children are grown and moving out. Perhaps they have gotten a promotion or they are being transferred, they might be having financial difficulties or a windfall. So you know it's a fun time to work with people while they're in transition.

Interviewer: There are all kinds out there.

Mary: Yes.

Interviewer: And every reason to sell or buy a home.

Mary: That's right.

Interviewer: How can people contact you now Mary, most importantly?

Mary: Well my website is www.maryellis.com, that's M-A-R-Y-E-L-L-I-S or my phone number is 303-661-9999.

Interviewer: Mary, it's such a pleasure talking with you today, thank you so much for coming in.

Mary: You bet.

Interviewer: And for more real estate related videos like this one be sure to tune into Metro Brokers TV online.

Let An Expert Help You Buy a Home

Greg Howard with Metro Real Estate Group specializes in residential real estate in the Colorado Springs area. He can offer the right, expert guidance to help you sell your home quickly or find the right home to buy.

Interviewer: Hi I am Kathy Soltero with metrobrokerstv.com, and today we have in the studio with us Greg Howard, he is with Metro Real Estate Group. Greg, thank you so much for coming in and talking with us today.

Greg: Thank you for having me.

Interviewer: Tell me a little bit about your business and where your real estate offices are?

Greg: Our real estate office is kind of in the downtown portion of Colorado Springs, we're off North Tejon. It's a small office; there are about eight different brokers there. And I am with Matt Tolooee at Metro Real Estate Group.

Interviewer: Okay and what areas are you specializing in?

Greg: I specialize in pretty much anything, I hate to say that it's that broad, but the only thing that I don't do is commercial work and the primary reason for that is, I work by referral. And by referral, I don't like turning things away that I don't have control of, hence so I try to do whatever I can, whenever somebody is referred to me.

Interviewer: Have you dealt with many short sales or bank owns?

Greg: Unfortunately, we have to deal with all those things. In the past 10 years, I've done everything from lots, short sales, manufactured homes, multimillion dollar homes, ranches, everything, when I first got started up I primarily focused on HUD foreclosures and investment properties.

Interviewer: Okay and how do you feel that Colorado Springs market is doing now?

Greg: I think it's doing pretty well. I don't know that there's a market in the US that's doing wonderfully but, if, if somebody wants to sell their home and they have the right kind of information, I think they can do pretty well. It's the factor of selling homes is all about, how you bought the home and how long you had the home. And then have an agent that actually can provide you with the right guidance to keep you either out of deep water or to actually skim some off.

Interviewer: Right, do you feel like the market down there is stabilizing a little bit, do you think that you're starting to pick up a little, are you still seeing a lot of foreclosures?

Greg: Well I, I actually watch the foreclosure list and I still see a lot of foreclosures. I think it's a tricky market for sellers to actually sell properties but it's a wonderful time to buy, and even if you had to sell and then buy, it's really still a good time. I don't think there is a bad time here. If somebody said, "When is the best time to buy a piece of property?" The answer would be... five years ago...10 years ago. So today will be that "ten years ago" or "five years ago".

Interviewer: Exactly, do it when you can right now.

Greg: Absolutely. Get on the merry-go-round when you can.

Interviewer: Exactly, so what do you enjoy most about real estate?

Greg: If I had to pick something that I enjoyed, it was probably the clientele of the buyers. They are happy to be there as long as you get them in the right direction, make sure the financing is working well they are just a pleasure to be with all the time. There's nobody more gracious than a buyer when you hand them a key at closing.

Interviewer: Well how can customers reach you?

Greg: Customers can reach me via the web at greghowardrealtor.com. You can also find me at Metro Brokers on their website at Greg Howard. You can also reach me on my cell phone which is 719-445-9515.

Interviewer: All right, Greg thank you so much for coming in and sharing all that with us today.

Greg: Very good, it was a pleasure, thank you.

Interviewer: All right, and for more real estate related videos like this one be sure to tune into Metro Brokers TV online.