In looking at really great real estate agents, whether they be in my local community, in my office, or on social networks I see one thing in common. They are all great at SERVICE.There is a term typically coming from the faith based community called having a Servant's Heart.These people outside t
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02/21/2008
There's just something about how you price something. With gasoline prices, that little 9/10 of a penny just does make a gallon look a little cheaper doesn't it? With home pricing it turns out now there is a bit of psychology behind that too.REALTORS and sellers try to offer prices on their homes
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02/20/2008
In riding around with buyers as a REALTOR you very much get to share personal lives with each other. Where you came from, what's important to you, your successes, your setbacks, your hopes and dreams. Not just about that next house, but about life. You share and learn.I have earlier commented abo
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02/19/2008
One thing REALTORS get to do in working with a range of clients and a spectrum of priced homes is see how the "rich and famous" live. A $100,000 home is definitely "different" than a $1,000,000 home. I had a new home construction salesman, maybe envious of the "rich", tell me people just stuff mo
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02/18/2008
Another writer told me if I wanted to see my views of a blog really shoot up just put the word SEX anywhere in the title and watch what happens. I suppose that word or XXX in the text would do the same thing so here goes. I'll let you know what happens. But seriously, this is not a tawdry tale of
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02/18/2008
In the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, the little boy Jack's family falls on hard times and when their cow stops producing milk he trades it in for some magic beans. The magic beans grow this enormous bean stalk into the clouds where Jack has an adventure with a giant. He ends up eventually comin
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02/18/2008
In North Texas over the weekend they had a Foreclosure Prevention Fair near the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. The event was part of a national series sponsored by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Basically they are trying to help people in trouble stave off foreclosur
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02/17/2008
While taking digital photos of rooms and the exterior of a house to list it dawned on me how still photos represent SNIPPETS OF TIME.I have always been the photographer in my family from Brownie cameras to 35 mm to Digital. Why I am the archivisit I don't know? Maybe I have Ja
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02/16/2008
Ever since the Internet morphed into the WWW, the world wide web in 1994, I have been a profuse reader of all sorts of web sites. There is so much information out there it is mind boggling.I find all sorts of focused web sites that put little areas of life into categories and I am constantly crea
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02/16/2008
Records were meant to be broken. Although I don't think that is necessarily a good thing. In the foreclosures area for the quarter, with postings through March, the Dallas Ft. Worth area had more than 13,000 residential properties posted by lenders, up 21 percent from the same period in 2007. A n
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02/15/2008
