In the past it was common for neighbors to introduce themselves to new arrivals and maybe bring them a pie or order a pizza when they saw the moving trucks roll in. Nowadays in a lot of neighborhoods-even very nice, upscale neighborhoods-this is a rare occurrence. You can blame it on whatever you
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06/27/2008
This is my practice Picasa slideshow. Picasa is a photo storage and sharing place that is part of Google. I love GMAIL and all that it offers. i have branched out and am trying Googles Picasa. Although slideshow may not be that exciting..the process was fun and now I will use it more often.
06/23/2008
Preparing a home for sale can be a daunting task even for normally neat and organized people. A lot of people think that a little air freshener, a professional carpet cleaning, and some extra yard mowing is all that it takes to make a house presentable. And that would be true for a cocktail party
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06/21/2008
Despite all of the bad news about foreclosures and the dire predictions about declining real estate values, a buyer's market is not necessarily a bad thing. There are many people who are suddenly back in the market for a house, people who just a year ago were looking at the market and seeing not
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06/13/2008
I recently posted a blog about public speaking, one thing I did not mention in that post was that local media have a lot of air time to fill and are always in need of quality guests. Right now with the sub-prime mortgage ‘crisis' a big topic on the news shows there are a lot of opportunities for
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06/06/2008
Aside from emergency service providers I can't think of many jobs that are as potentially dangerous as that of realtor. How many of us meet a majority of our clients for the first time in an empty house in a middleclass neighborhood while all of the other residents are at work? Or worse at some q
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06/05/2008