While frolicking around my community swimming pool to escape the Texas heat I thought about the people I saw. I reflected on Real Estate and how it wasn't about houses but about helping people. I also discovered that a rule that I thought of before was not entirely correct. There is a thought th
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05/31/2008
When driving buyers around looking for that perfect house it is a time of concentration. It has made me think of horse racing and particularly this time of year when the thoroughbred horse Big Brown has a shot at the Triple Crown. It really is all about focus. Some horses run wide eyed and open o
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05/31/2008
In the Real Estate profession as well as much of Corporate America there remain a handful of people, worker bees and leadership alike that just do not get it in life. They think life is all about work. That work is the be all and end all. How much production this week, this month, this year. In R
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05/30/2008
When it comes to moving day, moving out of a house OR moving into a house, one word comes to mind. STRESSFUL. It may seem fun or like a new adventure, but if it involves massively moving the contents of your life around and is change. I guarantee it will be stressful and at the end of that day yo
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05/30/2008
In the world of news often you run into what is called a SLOW NEWS DAY. This is when government activity is temporarily halted, holidays occur, and vacations happen. Or no terrorists got out of bed in the morning or typhoons decided not to swirl around in Indonesia. Thusly, even for all us regula
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05/29/2008
Nature can always provide images that may be looked at as symbols in life. Take dropping a pebble in a pond. Outwardly flowing ripples occur. Concentric circles they call them. Many things start at some point and flow outward to another place. In housing, you may buy an initial house and add on t
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05/29/2008
I open my email bright and early this morning and am greeted by two of the beautiful REALTOR women here on our real estate social network Active Rain. Linda Scanlan of Burleson, Texas and Sally Cheeseman of Mililani, Hawaii I thought well and good. Greetings from friends here
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05/28/2008
In driving around with buyers this time of year you hear about summer VACATION plans. Some may be scaled back this year with the exorbitant cost of gasoline. But the joke is always of yesteryear with the kids in the back seat pounding on Mom and Dad with that incessant chant of ARE WE
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05/27/2008
I love my conversations about life while showing buyers houses. In between the "business" of finding a home you get to talk about how things are going. One of my favorite topics is encouragement and friends. How do you know if a man (or woman) needs encouragement? If they are breathing. I have fo
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05/26/2008
Have you ever been tormented by your pet peeves? I don't have too many and am very tolerant of many even with my chosen pet peeves. I'm naturally one of those "get along" types. But looking at myself I figured out why I still have my pet peeves. It is not really about my opinions, but it is becau
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05/25/2008
