Ahhhh it's Autumn! | Brokers Corner with Tanya Chappell

You’ve finally landed. It’s been a long hot summer. In fact it’s been record breaking. This year has been the hottest summer in 98 years. You will find a link somewhere in Secure Invesments Realty social media about that. With the end of the long hot summer and the calmness of Autumn you’ll find almost every Realtor you run into, literally breathing a sigh of relief and exclaiming their joy of having gotten through Summer. It is certainly no different for us at SI. We are thrilled to have gotten back to a normal pace of business. Although The normal pace is busy I’d liken it to coming from a high boil down to a low simmer. Still very hot!!!You can apply that to the market in general too. While things have slowed from a frantic pace it is still a very steady simmer. Most economists predict this to continue for the next couple of years. However remember, there is always that turning point when your moving into a slow (normal) decline. Industries need to be aware of these changes so they can tweak adjustment factors along the way. This is the time of year for our office for planning, organizing and automating. Clients and customers want instant answers and technical data to back it upSome days it feels there’s not enough time to answer emails and phone calls. This is one of the reasons there are more calling centers and virtual assistant’s and even AI (Artificial intelligence). I bet all of us have been able to get on a website chat box with an AI and get immediate answers.I am currently working with a company now to adopt AI and integrated into our arsenal of customer service. I expect some bumps and bruises along the way but ultimately AI has made major advancements. Now that computers can teach themselves they are learning at lightning speeds (see my June newsletter links for the breakthrough article ). I’ll let you know how this new technology integration works for us. Thus, is also the time for tweaking any of your websites and marketing materials. We’re doing a lot of vlogging (which is our video blogging) a fancy way for saying “doing videos”.We’re also doing a lot of flipping for investors. Fixing houses and condos up and selling them. And yes we have some before after videos that we will be “vlogging” on. Lol ” /> This time of year also brings a lot of new property management real estate. Often homeowners that did not have success selling their property for the amount they wanted, turn to renting. It is a perfect way to hibernating the property. Preserving it for when the value increases where they need it to for selling. If you have your property listed for sale and it has not sold yet you might want considering rentingIt or doing some improvements now that the vendors are not crazy busy. We can help you with both of those options. On the homefront at the river it could not be more beautiful. The exterior renovations went very well this past year. And now the inside….It will be a complete renovation. I’ll keep you posted but it is going to be absolutely beautiful inside and out soon.We did take a quick weekend to Bimini and swam with sharks and stingrays at Honeymoon Harbor. Check out this video of Bimini.

You’ll also see how big my puppy “Pepper” has gotten in his tug of war video with “Pickles” and how little he was just 2 months. Crazy how fast they grow.

Enjoy your Autumm or Fall. And if you’re not sure what the difference is you can check this link out because I sure did. Let us know if we can help you even if it’s just for advice;)

Tanya Chappell

Broker Owner

Secure Investments Realty and Management

Over 30 Years in Property Management | Gainesville FL area