Understand that as a seller you are the broker's employer. The broker also has by law, a fiduciary duty to you and is charged with trying to get you the best possible price and terms for your property.
Interview several agents. Ask to see what properties they have closed the deals on in the last twelve months. Look online at their website. If you are a seller ask how they will market and promote your home. If you are a buyer then ask how they plan to find you the right home. Just using the MLS listings is not enough. Make sure they have the basics; their license, up to date training and work at real estate in Marbella. estate full time. Also ask if they are a broker or an agent. A broker generally has more experience and training.
Letters might need some more work but you can easily devise ways to make it easy and cheap. I have some mailing equipment I bought from a company real estate development. going bankrupt.
3 Read 1 or 2 books that deal with personal development and real estate. Everyone's favorite in Chicago, if not the US, is Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. His book is a great eye opener and helps adjust one's thinking about wealth. For real estate, Keller Williams' The real estate company or service. Estate Millionaire, has interviews and bios of many investors throughout the country.
Then there was poor Henry. He was there when I first started, at the desk in front of mine. He was there months later when I was quitting, and he was finally making his first and last sale (he quit shortly afterwards). He was one of the nicest guys I have ever worked with, but he didn't know how to sell real estate.
BW: At TBARTA we're spending a lot of our time on land use issues, because what we've shown time and time again, is that transit initiatives like what we've got going on in Hillsborough County don't succeed without land use changes to support the transit. And those land use changes help preserve single family(residences), the existing structure of the community, but you have changes within a quarter mile of the station, which is your core area. Then you have a ring that's a quarter to a half mile out from the stop. The core area within a quarter mile is your core walking distance to the station. It's designed benalus to be high density mixed use development, so, shops, Starbucks, CVS, restaurants...
It's great to travel and see the world. It reminds me of something a good friend of mine always says, "Some people have more money and more vision than us". Seeing the growth, prosperity and continued development (even now) of massive architectural icons being built on what was ocean six months ago is motivating.