Shawn Knowles Realtor

NYC just passed a new tax on anyone who owns property there but doesn’t live there. Florida is moving to eliminate property taxes for primary residents entirely. The gap between these two states isn’t closing — it’s accelerating. If you own in Florida or you’ve been thinking about it, your timing couldn’t be better. DM me to talk about what this means for your position. ⬇️ Save this. Share it with someone who needs to see it.

Sit down and shut up when you’re showing a home. Most agents open the front door and immediately start narrating. The pantry, the granite countertops, the LVP flooring, the master closet. Buyers can see it. And they’re already annoyed by the time you get to the second bedroom. Here’s what to do instead. Open the door and say “go take a look around, I’ll be sitting at the kitchen table if you have any questions.” That’s it. Let them walk the house. Let them feel something. Don’t follow them. Don’t fill the silence. When they come back, ask them this. “On a scale of 1 to 10, ten is you love this house, one is you never want to see it again. Where does it land?” They say eight... ask what would make it a ten. They hate the carpet... tell them you hate it too and write an offer to get the seller to replace it. They hate the floorplan... agree with them and go find another house. They say ten... tell them they better write a level ten offer or they won’t be sleeping in it. Your only job is to narrow it down and get them to the next step. Comment “INFO” and I’ll DM you the exact strategy top producers are using to scale to multiple 7 figures, without sacrificing their life to the grind.

🔥 Stop taking overpriced listings just because the seller wants to “test the market.” That’s not a pricing strategy. That’s avoiding a hard conversation. Most agents let sellers anchor to a fantasy number and hope the market proves them right. It never does. The market doesn’t care what the seller wants. The market only responds to value. Here’s how I look at it: If we’ve been on the market for 2 weeks with zero showings, we’re roughly 8% overpriced. If we’ve had a few showings but no offers, we’re probably 3% to 5% overpriced. If we’ve had strong showing activity but no offers, we’re likely 1% to 2% overpriced. The biggest mistake agents make is treating price reductions like bad news. They’re not. Price adjustments are simply the market giving you feedback. The real question isn’t what price the seller wants. The real question is: What are we doing after 14 days if the market rejects our price? Top agents don’t chase a number. They follow the data. 📬 Comment “INFO” and I’ll DM you the exact strategy top producers are using to scale to multiple 7 figures, without sacrificing their life to the grind.

Florida is the #1 growth economy in the country right now, and builders physically cannot keep up with demand. 🏗️ Here’s the part almost nobody talks about: builders can’t break ground without land — and most of them are too busy building homes to go hunt for vacant lots themselves. So there’s a gap in the middle… and that gap is where the money is. It’s called land flipping (some people call it wholesaling vacant land) — and here’s how it actually works, step by step: 1️⃣ You find a piece of vacant land where the owner wants to sell. A lot of these people inherited the land, live out of state, or forgot they even owned it — so they’re happy to let it go. 2️⃣ You lock it up with a simple one-page contract. This doesn’t mean you’re buying it. The contract just gives YOU the right to buy it — and the right to pass that deal to someone else. $0 out of your pocket. 3️⃣ You take that contract to a builder or developer who needs lots in that area, and you assign it to them — meaning you hand them your spot in the deal. 4️⃣ You keep the spread in the middle. If you locked it up at one price and the builder pays more, that difference is your profit — $10K+ on a single deal. You never own the land. You never use your own money. No license. No experience. You’re simply the person who connects land nobody’s using to the builders who desperately need it. 📍 I broke down the top 5 Florida markets where this is happening right now 👆 Comment “LAND” and I’ll send you the full A-to-Z guide on how to start. #realestateforsale #floridarealestate #realestateinvestment #howtomakemoneyonline

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