Your health is my business

After selling Real Estate in Levin, I've shifted to helping with healthy homes...over the coming weeks you'll hear more from me on that.

In the meantime have a great long weekend - and keep safe!

A house vs a home - the difference?

People build and buy houses as commodities but we live in homes, homes are where we relax after work, in thr weekends and are our haven.

We sleep at home, we raise our children at home and recuperate at home. Home is not just where we hang our hats its where we take off our work dress, offload the pressures of the day and unwind.

It makes sense that our homes should be our retreat where we can unwind completely and recuperate - recharge the batteries and recover.

Recently I have been going into a few homes and have been amazed at how unhealthy most of our homes are - and it has me thinking about the correlation between healthy homes and healthy people....there's really something there worth considering.

Can't get your head round Twitter and http://voices.realestate.co.nz?

Until recently I've been sellingf or Harcourts Levin as a Levin Sales and Marketing Specialist and used social media marketing to become the easiest sales consultant to find online.

Realising that there are other agents who can benefit from some tactics that helped me I decided to release a Twitter ebook (that's a flash way of saying a downloadable PDF file with tips, tricks and techie shortcuts).

Have a look at the preview here SEE THE PREVIEW

If you think this is useful - See My Website

Isn't funny what people think and say?

I had a very interesting call today - IRD rang me to say they think I haven't paid enough tax ...when I asked why that was they informed me "we have been informed that ...you are an IT Manager... and you have underpaid your tax".

Well BUGGER ME!

 I'm quite excited by this revelation - from one simple BLOG post saying I was no longer working at Harcourts Levin some misinformed person has suggested to IRD that I am now newly qualified and have a high paying role as an IT manager.

I appreciate their leap of faith in my abilities - sorry but under the fair trading act and laws of common decency I feel I must confess I am neither an IT Manager nor am I earning the big bucks.

Obviously I am being completely flippant - BUT more seriously I genuinely question the professional etiquette and integrity of people that:

1. make statements like this
2. organisations/people that initiate investigations without checking the validity of facts or question the motivation of individuals who knowling or ignorantly make false declarations to IRD

In times of economic recession and uncertainty its fair to say most people have better things to do or if not -they bloody well should!

THAT derserves a serious thumbs down  (although a thumb up an uncomfortable area might be more appropriate).

Mason is no longer working at Harcourts Levin

I have been working at Harcourts Levin for a little over twelve months and have learnt a lot about Levin, its people and how Levin "ticks".

I've really enjoyed working for my Levin clients - both buyers and vendors here in Levin are brilliant to deal with but I've decided to try something else. While I'm not 100% sure what the future is or will be I just yet but I will be staying connected to Real Estate and Levin.

With that in mind I will be maintaining:

1. my website http://masonparker.co.nz/
2. my blog http://noaddedfluff.com/ 
3. and the Levin Property Report http://masonparker.co.nz/levinpropertyreport

Watch this space

Harcourts Newsroom releases great news for August

Harcourts Newsroom: "Harcourts New Zealand CEO Bryan Thomson says the nationwide group’s initial unaudited figures for August are at similar levels to July and well ahead of the same month last year, with an average of 38% more written sales being completed last month than in August 2008."

This is a national indicator and is great prelude to the Levin property Report being released in appoximately 7 days

You can receive the Levin Property Report by subscribing online at http://masonparker.co.nz/levinpropertyreport.php

Indicators are that the Levin Property Report will be just as positive

Social Media is changing the world and how we find products

I read a tweet from @harcourtstoni today that pointed me to the video below - very thought provoking thanks Toni!

This certainly makes me think that investing in smart web technologies is leverage into a long-term marketing presence and is the communication of the future for my current and future Levin Real Estate clients.

Listings with videos, twitter updates, blog posts and web driven technologies are the global technologies of choice for Gen Y.

See for yourself