A favorite past time for many ‘Spring-ers is golfing. You will find people on the greens at all times of year in all kinds of weather. Since Colorado has upwards of 300 sunny days a year, golfing is a very appropriate hobby.Here is a collection of the golf courses that you will find in and around
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01/31/2007
Derek came home from an afternoon showing homes to his very first buyer client, as a Realtor in Colorado Springs (we'll call her Ms. P) and sits at the computer in obvious bewilderment. He logged onto the local MLS and then paused for a few minutes. "Honey. What's up? How did your day go?" I was
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01/24/2007
Welcome to Post #8 in my series, Understanding theRealtor® Code of Ethics.Equal Housing Opportunity... Fair Housing Laws ... The little black and white house on most Realtors® business cards, flyers, advertisements ... etc. This little house represents Fair Housing Laws, and Article 10 of the Rea
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01/23/2007
In my quest to de-code the National Association of Realtors® Code of Ethics I now give you #7 in the series. In this post I will discuss Article 9. This article deals with how contracts are written, conveyed and "kept together" according to the National Association of Realtors®. (I apologize for
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01/17/2007
The WeBLOG Handbook (Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining your Blog) by Rebecca Blood has been a long time staple in blogging community, and for good reason. From my research I have found that nothing compares to this book, in terms of general basic blogging terms, benefits and blog histo
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01/14/2007
We love Active Rain, right? We love to post about WHY we love Active Rain, right? We like to know how Active Rain has helped it's members, right? Well, wouldn't it be nice if there was a group (Oh No! Not another GROUP!!!) where we could have all these posts availabale to be read by anyone ... Ne
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01/12/2007
You know them. They plant their little yellow signs. They check on the weekly election and demand lists religiously. They gather like vultures around any Seller that is or may be facing foreclosure. You, the Realtor, can only educate the selling public so much about these predators before an "inv
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01/12/2007
What happened in December, here in the Colorado Springs Real Estate Market? I would have thought that the snow would have made more of an impact on the market than it did, seeing as we were "snowed in" for several days at a time... (title companies were closed, no one was driving around to show o
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01/07/2007
I am sure that most of you have been aware that the Active Rainers ... or should I say "Snowers" that reside in the front range of the Rocky Mountains (Denver and Colorado Springs) have been hit with quite the snow storms over the past few weeks. Kristal Kraft has some great posts about the weath
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01/07/2007
This is 6th in a series of posts describing what the Code of Ethics are and what they mean to you - the buyer or seller or landlord. This particular post deals with the last article concerning a Realtors® duties to Clients and Customers. (The following posts will be regarding a Realtors® duties
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01/05/2007