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If You haven't heard, the Internet is The Future of Selling Real Estate! The real estate audience is no longer reading newspapers and magazines, having shifted its attention to the Internet, which is now the primary tool for real estate research. The National Association of Realtors reported that 84% of buyers used the Internet in 2007 compared to less than half which used print media. Every year less people are reading newspapers, especially the younger generations. In fact in Every age group, newspaper readership is way down and continues to decline! In the 30 to 45 age group, less than 35% read a newspaper. Even in the 45 to 55 age group, only 45% of people read a newspaper. Lets face it! When you can go online, view thousands of properties with large multiple color photos, view a great deal of info on a property, search properties by location and price, and compare listing with each other; Who wants to look at an ad with one small photo in black and white with 3 lines of information about the property??? Not me! Also, Newspapers come and go quickly. One day they are at your door and the next day they are in the garbage can or a recycling bin never to be seen again! On the Internet and at Lakehomes.com Realty our Websites are available to the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! They are now more visible than ever!

The Truth About Real Estate Buyers and the Expensive Properties

It is no secret that most of the buyers with money come from metropolitan areas such as the Twin Cities or Chicago. In fact, about 9 out of 10 future waterfront buyers do not currently reside in Northern Minnesota! This makes it very difficult to sell high priced real estate in Northeastern Minnesota. So, I would like to ask you, how many of these possible buyers from outside your local area are actually going to get a local newspaper? How many of these buyers look in a local tv guide? How many actually get a local real estate guide? The answer is probably none. Now, if these out of area buyers don't know much about your community or lake they probably won't find it in your hometown newspaper! Wouldn't you agree? They will most likely go online to find that information. Now, you may think that your property will be seen by lots of buyers online if you sell with a real estate company that does have a nice website on the Internet. If you feel this way, I would still have to disagree with you. Unfortunately this is not the case because websites are becoming like cars and just about everybody has one.

The Most Important Aspect of Having a Website: Making it Findable for Buyers!

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Even with most real estate companies having their own website these days, their websites can still be very difficult to find because the search engines don't pick them up like they used to or their sites are not properly built. To put it in my terms, The Majority of Real Estate Company Websites are Very Ineffective for promoting your property online. They are online and can be accessed, but they are like a large billboard sign down a dead end road! They are not found by buyers in major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL. What does this mean if your property is placed on their website? Potential Buyers are not going to see their website, therefore they are not going to see your property for sale! With the internet becoming more influential for buyers every year, you are not doing yourself a favor by selling with companies who have very little traffic to their website! This defeats the whole purpose of online property promotion. By listing your property with us, your property will easily be found by thousands of potential buyers!

The Major Advantage of Selling with Kris and Lakehomes.com Realty

At Lakehomes.com Realty You better believe your property will be seen on our Websites. We were one of the first real estate companies on the Internet. We have been online since 1996 and have spent endless amounts of time and money making sure that we are 2nd to none when it comes to promoting your waterfront/recreational property online! Through a creative mix of marketing, the Lakehomes.com name, and our advanced search engine placement, our sites are found easily by thousands of waterfront buyers. We have also combined these Internet techniques with our membership in several multiple listing organizations. While most companies only belong to 1 or 2 Multiple Listing Organizations, we belong to 10 MLS Organizations. They include the the Iron Range MLS, Itasca County MLS, Minneapolis/St. Paul MLS, the Arrowhead MLS, the Bemidji Area MLS, the Brainerd Area MLS, the Detroit Lakes MLS, the Alexandria MLS, the N.W. Wisconsin MLS, and the Duluth Area MLS. It also gives our listings the marketing muscle that they need so they are seen by 20,000 real estate agents and their waterfront buyers across the state.With our expanding team of waterfront specialists and affiliates, we are not only able to get your property marketed correctly - but we can also show it easily - which alleviates many of the problems from the past. We even offer various commission structures if you want to do some of the work yourself! Finding a Buyer for a high end property in Northern Minnesota is not easy, but by selling with us you will give your property much greater exposure for the real estate fees you pay out. Feel free to call Kris today for a free consultation to see what Lakehomes.com Realty can do to help you get your waterfront or acreage property sold!

More Internet and Search Engine Information and Statistics

To the Right You can See that Google is the most used and most important search engine. Our websites show up at the top of all major search engines, but they are optimized more for Google. It only makes sense because Google's populartity continues to grow. The majority of people doing online searches are typing keywords in the Google Search Box. (toward the middle of the page) They are not typing in website addresses/info at the very top of the browser. Try this in the Google Search Box: type in minnesota waterfront properties. Note that this is a highly used search term and we show up as the first website in the search out of over 2,000,000 other results! People doing searches are much more likely to click on the first few websites they see after they type in a search term. This means that we will get a lot more visits from buyers to our website than someone at the bottom of the page or on the 2nd page of results! This means more exposure for your property! Another Really Important Fact is that 84% of all people doing searches on the web never get past the second page of search results. This goes to show you that if your website is not on the first or second page, your website has very little chance of being seen. Most of our websites/pages show up on the first page of the search results out of millions of search results. Even when buyers type in waterfront real estate we have 2 websites in the top five results out of over 7,000,000 related websites! This is Extremely Important for getting visitors from metropolitan areas to our website to view your property for sale. As tech savy individuals we continually try to make sure that our web pages are as close to the top as possible because the search engine spiders change their guidlines on how they rank websites every now and then. Right now there are about 237,000,000 people who use the internet on a daily basis in North America. You can bet that some of them are looking for a Waterfront/Recreational property. That means that there is a good chance that they are looking at one of our websites and at your listing!

Some Reasons Why You Should Work With Kris and Lakehomes.com Realty!

Approximately 84% of buyers now search the Internet for real estate
We have top search results in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and most popular search engines so our websites and properties are instantly found
We place your listing on the homepage (main web page) so potential buyers can find it easily
We are one of the only companies that track how much attention your specific listing gets online, We do this on the Lakehomes.com homepage and we can report the results to you!
While most real estate companies in Minnesota are lucky if they get 500visitors a month to their website, We get about 2,000,000 visitors a month to our websites which feature your property. Nobody can get you infront of as many potential buyers as we can!
We have over 20 years of waterfront sales experience across Minnesota with over $100,000,000 in waterfront property sales
Our listings are advertised and placed in up to 10 Multiple Listing Services whereas most companies only belong to 1 or 2 Muliple Listing Services, By belonging to 10 Multiple Listing Areas we can get your property infront of over 20,000 Realtors Statewide
We have agents all across the state of Minnesota and Wisconsin that know their area markets very well
We may have a buyer waiting to purchase your property already
By mainly focusing on water-related, acreage, and recreational properties, Lakehomes.com Realty makes it easier for consumers to find what they are looking for
We are professional, reliable, knowledgable, and are here to help you Sell your property or to assist you in finding the perfect one
We are at the forefront of internet technology as it continues to grow
We are the only Real Estate company You need when it comes to Selling Your Property!
As your Agent I will place your property on other Important Websites and I will make sure I do my Best for You!

*All the Statistics above are either from the National Association of Realtors (the governing body of real estate agents nationwide) or other Reliable Sources