Jack Mossman's Blog

  Every once and a while I get to take the opportunity to just chat with folks ... about life, about real estate ... about hopes ... about dreams.  Recently some of those folks were "older" and the subject found its way into real estate. So I'm going to share some of their observations ... well a...

   "Help publicly.  Help privately. Help in your actions by recycling and conserving and protecting, but help also in your attitude.  Help make sense where sense has gone missing.  Help bring reason and respect to discourse and debate.  Help science to solve and faith to soothe.  Help law bring j...

   New Homes are still selling in Stockton and San Joaquin County - weekending 1/16/101 This week's indicators brought mostly mixed news for the economy.  Starts of new housing increased in the single family units, but declined in multi-units.  There is some concern that the starts may be year-en...

  The other day a group of us were looking over and sharing our "marketing plans" for 2011; this was a sort of "reality test" between colleagues.  Most of us were really pretty good about "metrics" ... you know the number of calls for a contact, the number of contacts for an appointment, the numb...

When the market seems to get some of our colleagues down, or it might just be “life” is pressing in … one of the things I’ve seen over and over on ActiveRain is the willingness to express encouragement and good will from members to each other.  It is a model that makes the community feel special...

  Sometimes the stories are just plain sad ... other stories seem out-of-touch ... still others just don't ring true ... and yet others raise the "I don't believe this" monitor to the top of the scale.  What are these stories ... these are the hardships of the short sale seller. The loss of jobs,...

  The posts on ActiveRain are immediate, diverse and in many cases entertaining.  It should come as no surprise that the folks posting on ActiveRain are immediate, diverse and in many cases entertaining.  The common denominator between the posts and the authors...both are authentic! Several of th...

   When we "network" are we only networking where we feel comfortable, or are we willing to reach out of our comfort zone and network with the unknown or little-known? Aga Khan is quoted (and excerpted) as having said, "Encounters.  When two people meet.  Or two particles.  Or two cultures .........

   The Tax Man Cometh ...  Yep, it's getting closer to that "tax day" ... but for some of us, there's another "tax day" we need to remember. If we were fortunate and added our first employees this last year ... then here's a brief reminder!  The form W-2 (for employees) and 1099 forms are due to ...

   "I tell [young people] not to be afraid about starting at the bottom; that they can work their way up; that they need to learn all they can from people who have been in the business longer than they have been."  - Katie Couric, new anchor Getting ready to start a new agent orientation program ...