Whats up San Diego

**sarahk** · 05-12-2005, 03:06 PM

Just out of interest, who pays for your signs?

I'll take a piccie of how we do it down here because they're 100% different from the example above. Ours still promote the realtor heavily, and their brand but they also include info about the property.

And the vendor pays upfront.

Sarah

**STVP** · 05-12-2005, 03:39 PM

Yeah I used to live in the pools when I lived in Oregon, there is a city called Donald and it has a pool that people visit from all over between that and burnside downtown we were in heaven. Then We got more into surfing and enjoyed falling on water more than cement.

Sarah that avatar is ridiculous where did you find it.

STVP

**sarahk** · 05-12-2005, 04:16 PM

It's second hand

apparantly picked up from tropical fish forum - as you'd expect.

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-12-2005, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by sarahk

Just out of interest, who pays for your signs?

I'll take a piccie of how we do it down here because they're 100% different from the example above. Ours still promote the realtor heavily, and their brand but they also include info about the property.

And the vendor pays upfront.

Sarah

At Realty Executives we are independent contractors, so we pay for anything we wish to have. I buy 12 at a time, so really it's no big deal at $155 every year or two.

**sarahk** · 05-12-2005, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by Phoenix Realtor

At Realty Executives we are independent contractors, so we pay for anything we wish to have. I buy 12 at a time, so really it's no big deal at $155 every year or two.

That's amazing. We pay about US$700 per sign, per house!

This is what you get for free, but only the cheapest properties would have a standard sign. Agents hate using them because it costs them and not the vendor.

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-12-2005, 07:37 PM

Show me a $700 sign.

I am putting one up at a site where three new custom homes are going to be built priced from $620K to $810K. That sign is going to cost me around $400, it will be four feet high by eight feet wide, full color, and mounted about 3 feet above the ground with three 4X4 inch posts holding it.

Mybe I should be exporting real estate signs instead of selling real estate?

**Las Vegas Real Estate** · 05-12-2005, 09:57 PM

Yo, Cleve... greetings from Las Vegas and welcome to the forum!

**STVP** · 05-12-2005, 11:01 PM

I tell ya what guys, Instead of spending 400 bones on a Sign how about you spend it on a surf board and when you have no listings I can ride it.

Sound like a good idea...

STVP

**Jade456** · 05-13-2005, 09:15 PM

Welcome to the forum. For 700 bucks, I'd make you a sign

Matt, who would have figured you for a slacker in your youth!

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-14-2005, 10:30 AM

Charles, I know you are just poking fun at me, so htis is not directed at you buddy!

Skating is not slacking! Well, partying a little, but it is a sport and you sweat, build skills and build muscle, etc. It just got a bad rap from the few who used drugs, and vandalized things, etc.

Anyways, I am not and never was a slacker. Even back them I owned a bicycel maintenance shop that I ran out of my parents shed. I even made a carved wood sign for the shed door and sent out flyers to all our neighbors with a price list on it. IE, $3 to patch a flat, $4 to change an innertube, $7 for a tune-up (tighten spokes, grease bearings, oil chain and sealed bearings, air up tires to proper pressure, etc.). I made quite a lot of money doing that from 8th grade into 10th or so. After that, I threw five keg parties at other peoples houses when their parnets were out of town. We would sell them on it by asking them if they wanted to be popular... they always said yes, so I had at least three a month. Talk about making money... at $5 per person and a fight almost always breaking up the party (with police coming, etc.) before I'd have to buy the 3rd, 4th, or 5th keg. I usually walked with well over $300 a night. Which was good money in the early 80's. Kept gas and tires on my '69 Camaro RS.