Do you know THE THREE WOW FACTORS OF LIFE? The first Wow involves places. It may be a place you visit on vacation, your local area, a sunset, something you see or fragrant beauty from a flower. You say Wow. You see it with buyers when they find that special place to call home. It's a Wow house or
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07/30/2008
If you are around the many individuals in the Real Estate industry as professionals that we are there is no denying that it is a "People" business. Clients, Associates, affiliated professions, all intermingle with us not to mention the sphere of influence we work. But to the degree of the depth y
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07/30/2008
Have you ever been hanging around people and looked around and wondered if any of these people were like "heroes" in your life? THERE ARE HEROES IN YOUR LIFE. No they don't have to wear capes and leap tall buildings at a single bound. Heroes are more subtle than that. It's probably where we get t
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07/29/2008
In discussing the parameters of what a buyer wants in a home it reminded me of all the other choices we make in life. The decisions we make really do impact us long term, so we should give careful consideration in areas like whom we marry, what home we buy, what job we take, what school district
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07/29/2008
In writing up descriptions of houses for sale many adjectives are used like stunning, awesome, gorgeous, beautiful, etc. Words are very powerful and coupled with this I am continually aware in life how time is so short for us. These powerful words NEED to be spoken to each other too. Positive wor
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07/28/2008
Realtors come in many shapes, sizes, personalities, temperaments, experience levels, training and life experience. Picking up a phone book and selecting one may help you select a jewel of a professional to hire, but wouldn't cutting the glamour shots out of the home magazines and pasting them to
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07/28/2008
I want you to keep the images from this post fresh in your mind because they apply to many you may work with in industry, customers, or Realtors. Just think basically that the response to YOU asking for a reason for something, or any level of accountability, the answer comes back to you like this
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07/28/2008
If you live long enough you will find friends that you thought were your friends abandon you. In my discussions with Buyers and Sellers alike about their circle of "friends" they all agree with me on this that you need to GET RID OF YOUR BAG HEAD FANS. I once coached a corporate softball intramur
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07/27/2008
In reading and writing on this social blogging network experiment that is Active Rain I often feel it will culminate one day here in the near future where a teacher will call me out from my elementary school chair in August at the start of the new school year and say, Gary, what did you learn ove
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07/26/2008
In driving fairly long distances with buyers between house showings in my area we chuckle amidst all the Realtor stories that are out there. I need to solicit from you some fresh stories of fun things you have seen in the Real Estate world along the way. They don't have to be about you but maybe
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07/26/2008
