Pensacola, FL, Niceville, FL

TEAM Hughes Real Estate School is in its third week of a Real Estate Broker Course and to make the course as convenient as possible, we asked vendors to sponsor a dinner each night and to give a short presentation about their products and/or business.  Vendors are the bomb!  Without these vendors...

For years I doubted myself, and I could never see myself as others saw me.  Even though I excelled in jobs and careers, even though people gave me “atta-girls” for the good job I was doing, and even though my paychecks continued to increase, I could not see the value in me.  If you can relate to ...

Bob and I were in New England for a couple of weeks.  Our intention was to visit family and friends and to have our annual meeting with our Administrative Assistant, Judy, who handles the school database.  Combining that with a trip to Bar Harbor, ME, seemed like a good way to see the foliage and...

Do you like to fish?  If you do, then you will relate to this blog.  I like to fish.  I lose patience sometimes, but if the sun is shining and the fishing isn’t good, I always enjoy just being there.  Fishing reminds me of practicing real estate.  Bob and I use lures a lot, and lures can be like ...

I love to travel.  We spent more than a few years in an RV ministry where we got to travel around the country while working on churches, Christian schools, Teen Challenges, etc.  It was a great life, but not for the faint of heart.  Now that we’re out of ministry and have settled into a routine w...

If you think about it, the practice of real estate can sometimes be stressful.  The public perceives real estate agents as having it easy, a cushy job if you will.  They think the entire commission goes to one real estate agent, and that agent hardly worked for it at all.  Think about it long eno...

Do you stand in amazement sometimes when you stop and think about your career?  The wonder of it all sometimes confounds me, and my business world seems almost surreal.  Having been raised by parents who worked most their lives to survive, I subconsciously believed that work was a must and should...

Florida just got knocked on its “keester” with Hurricane Irma, Texas was pummeled by Hurricane Harvey, and while writing this blog, we still don’t know the calamity Hurricane Jose will cause.  Let’s face it:  this hurricane season was not your Momma’s hurricane season!  Time stood still, business...

Regardless of team efforts, sometimes your team doesn’t place first.  The other night, I watched FSU succumb to Alabama.  The overall team efforts in that game were painful, to say the least.  FSU’s quarterback couldn’t control his passes, and FSU defense looked like a bunch of school boys practi...

At my age, you tend to know lots of stuff.  Some of the stuff you know is of great value and some of it has little value or use to anyone.  One thing I know, however, is how to make money as a real estate practitioner.  There’s an old saying, “Those who can’t, teach.”  There’s a lot of truth to t...