Bob’s focus is on helping clients to better understand the local real estate market, the inventory of available homes and investment properties, the trends in pricing and the historical rates of return on income producing properties.   Information booklets are customized based on the needs expressed by the individual buyer or seller. “The material I provide is real analysis and information which will make your decision to purchase easier and give you greater confidence in the process and the decisions you make along the way.”  Information is critical to making the right decisions, particularly in our current market.

Bob addresses three key questions which frequently come up when discussing property values.  First, “What is the cash flow I can expect from a rental property?”  The second, “What is the appreciation rate on this subdivision, or condo complex?”  And finally, “What is the return on investment potential when it is sold?”  These are examples of the quality of analysis and presentation you will receive from Realtor® Bob Staples.  If you have needs for specific analysis, Bob can produce it to meet your unique requirements.

The paradigm for buying and selling real estate today is quickly shifting to the Internet and, with that, is a dramatic shift in the skills required of real estate agents.  With years of computer based technical experience working with a large variety of application programs, Bob’s knowledge and skills go well beyond most real estate agents.  Bob is an advanced user of Microsoft Office products; i.e., Excel, Word, Publisher, Power Point and Outlook.  He is also skilled in Adobe's CS3/4 Suite of products, including Photoshop (the leading photographic software), Acrobat as well as the website design tools, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash.  Combining these technical skills with Bob’s experience in communications provides you, the client, with a powerful analytical capability.  Add to this the savvy Bob has in Marketing on the World Wide Web and you have someone who can provide an unbeatable ability to provide Buyers with unprecedented information on Yamhill County real estate that matches there unique requirements.

Bob’s Guarantee to Sellers demonstrates the seriousness of his commitment to serve clients on either side of a real estate transaction. Today’s Buyers and Sellers can be anywhere in the World.  Each year sees more and more buyers purchasing real estate over the Internet without actually seeing the property. The more capable a Realtor® is at closing the gap between the reality of being there and the virtual reality of seeing high quality imagery of the property over the Internet, the more successful his or her client will be at achieving their goal in acquiring the right property. Wherever you are, if you have internet access and an e-mail address, Bob can furnish everything you will need in formats such as acrobat (.pdf), photos in .jpg/.tif/.gif and files in any of the Microsoft Office suite of programs.

To assure he continues to deliver on these commitments to his clients, Bob has invested heavily in state of the art computer, photographic and publishing equipment, application software and an Internet presence that goes beyond that of virtually any other real estate agent.