Teresa 's Blog

The St. Paul Real Estate Blog is hosting a virtual pumpkin carving contest.  Participants will grab the pumpkin graphic from the blog and save it or paste it into the paint program in Windows, draw on it and send it back. The judges will be everyone who wants to vote.  Complete details and rules ...

I went to a meeting last week where a woman explained podcasting but she kind of got it wrong so I thought I would clear up so confusion.  My picture is of an Apple iPod which is an MP3 player.  It plays audio files that are in a .mp3 format.  These files do not have to be downloaded to an Ipod t...

This is the most expensive listing currently on the market in Minnesota priced at 3.1 million  The most expensive house that I know of that was ever listed in our MLS was sold for $6,600,000, in June of 2005.  the home was located in the small town of Sandstone MN that has a population of just ov...

On two separate occasions this week I had the honor of writing offers for buyers.  In both cases I presented the offers in person to the sellers. All of my offers are presented in person because I believe that I owe it to my buyers to represent them to the best of my ability. I find it helpful to...

A week or so ago Maureen and Dimitry launched a blog tour of non active rain blogs, made by active rain members.  Our other blogs.  When I saw all the wonderful blogs I thought I would attempt to make a list.  I ended up making a Squidoo Lens of Acitve Rain Bloggers --other blogs.  This is a work...

Several of my favorite blogs all wrote about the same thing today: http://www.problogger.net/http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061012-085316, http://www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com/who-wants-a-juice-fight/, http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/another_way_to_.html, http://blog.outer-co...

I did my first web site in 1996, it was for a non-profit group.  I had to learn and use HTML because at the time it was easier than using a program called Navigator Gold.  If you have ever used that program let me know because like me you are about 100 years old in internet years. :)  If you have...

Active Rain members love to blog!  I am going to share my favorite blogging and technical resources.  I don't have time to read everything I see about blogging or about technology so I went through my RSS feedreader and sorted through the 100 links or so and picked out the best.  This is my must ...

Remember sign calls?  You know when you have a listing and someone calls you because they saw your number on the for sale sign?  Well business has picked up here and so the phone is ringing again.People who call off of signs can be trying.  I had one today, a total stranger who called out of the ...

  A true active rain blogging story - Part 1It was a cold and snowy night . . . Ahhhh, that’s the way Bonnie starts her story blogs. . . It really was a warm and sunny day in June (Yes, we do have them in Minnesota!) as Teresa traveled to a friends’ wedding reception. The phone rang and it was Bo...