Mary Petti's Discussions

If you would like periodic updates on home sales in your neighborhood, email me at PruMaryNJ@aol.com. Please provide:1) your email address2) your street address with zip codeand I will be happy to provide them to you on a monthly basisMary PettiRealtor-AssociatePrudential NJ Properties3 Amboy AveMetuchen NJ 08840office: 732-494-7677 x 352Cell: 908-675-0167

From Middlesex County MLS StatisticsYear-to-Date from 1/1/2007 to 10/31/2007Active Avg. Avg. Sale Percent Sale Avg. DaysListings List Price Price to List Price on Market 875 $505,591 $453,552 96.5% 63 COMPARISON REPORT-JANUARY 1 THRU OCTOBER 31: 2006 VS. 2007Avg. Sale Avg. Sale PercentPrice 2006 Price 2007 Change$463,606 $453,552 -2.2%

WOW....All these different agencies and I am the only one from Prudential !?!I am a Prudential agent (4 years). We service Northern and Central NJ....25 offices, 840 (or so) agents in the following areas: Basking Ridge, Bridgewater / Martinsville, Caldwell, Clinton, Denville, East Brunswick, Flemington, Green Brook, Hillsborough, Howell, Livingston, Manalapan, Metuchen, Middletown, Millburn, Millstone, Morristown, New Providence, Princeton, Roxbury, Sayreville, Summit, The Hills Verona - Janett Division, West Caldwell - Rampinelli Division, WestfieldNo desk fees...floating commission split based on GCI, company paid Realtor.com Featured Websites, use of copying machines and printing materials (no per page fees), exclusive deal with Yahoo real estate, free 50 Just Listed and/or Just sold postcards on every listing, free training classes, and lots more. We ALL see the CEO and VP's on a fairly regular basis and for the most part they remember who we are as well.If you are interested in joining, or interviewing for, our company email me at PruMaryNJ@aol.com, let me know which office is best for you, and I will get you the info on which office is nearest to you.

Officially licensed in November 2003, closed first sale in February 2004 (buyer agent). At the beginning I took aLL the floor time I could get, and these buyers were a call in. Of course this was when the market was good. I even made agent of the month in August 2005 (tough competition in in my office of 32 with all the "seasoned" agents with mucho contacts), and made my companies Bronze level awards in 2005 as well. Came close in 2006 on both counts, but market had slowed dramatically by then. Got into the business at just the right time to make lots of contacts/sales/listings in '04 thu '06, so now that market is slooooow, I am at least getting referrals from past clients. I still have to sell myself and my abilities. I carry my cards everywhere and talk to everyone (on line in the market, to people next to me in the hair salon, etc.) and always manage to get real estate into the conversation. That's when tell them I sell real estate and give them my card. People always want to ask a real estate "professional" questions about their impression of how the maket is now and will be in the future. (it affects their home price doesn't it?) Then I try to get an email address and general area they live in. I ask if they'd like an email with recent statistics for their area, (everyone wants FREE stuff), then send them a nice "thank you, pleasure to have met you" email with the statistics. Then I follow up once a month with a "hi, how are you" email, or something geared to the month (ie: holiday, elections day, clock changing etc) It's easy, you can mass email a generic note to all the potentials. Try it, keeping in touch will pay off in the long term. (oh and MAKE SURE you ask if they have a spam filter...if they do, tell them what will be in the subject line so they don't delete the email and think you didn't folllow through !!)