Having grown up in Florida and visiting there this week sandwiched between two hurricanes, and also having been in Texas a long time I know a thing or two about storms. With tornadoes they drop out of the sky and the only preventative thing you can do is watch the sky as it turns bad and find she
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08/31/2008
In attracting people and opportunities into your real estate business or for that matter your personal life be aware of the bait you are using, the lure. Because, WHICH LURE YOU SELECT DETERMINES HOW FANTASTIC A LIFE YOU GET. In business, act professional, polite, respectful, courteous, knowledge
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08/30/2008
One of my keys to serenity in my world is recognizing when to let go of things. I believe in being ok with things that have gone haywire for whatever reason. Take the Realtor-Client relationship. Clients screen Realtors but you know Realtors and Stagers for example should screen ALSO their client
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08/28/2008
Years ago it seems somebody, I don't know who, hired this Welcome Wagon company to stop by newly moved in residents in neighborhoods. The idea was to give them an introductory basket of many useful goodies to get them going in the new house. I don't know if times have changed or we're moving just
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08/27/2008
In popular movies of yesteryear one of the fun ones out there was the 1994 epic Speed. It had popular actress Sandra Bullock in it and launched the career of athletically built or what most women on this forum would call "hottie" Keanu Reeves. He later went on to star in cyberadventures like the
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08/26/2008
As REALTORS or whatever we decide to excel at in our lives, know that we don't "arrive" at the best in our craft without some work. So Grow Into The Pro You Were Destined To Be 1. Unconscious Incompetent - at first you don't even know how bad you are. This could be considered pathetic at this
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08/25/2008
In all our busy lives whether that means working transactions as Realtors, presenting a home as a Stager, buying a home, selling a home, commuting into the office, fixing the broken printer, dealing with our children's problems, handling a health issue, there is more stress out there it seems the
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08/25/2008
During this my "500th blog" post I got to thinking what this real estate blog posting was really all about. Yes, it is about writing. For all of us it is about reading. But then again it was some more about writing and "commenting" on what was just read. I thought, FASCINATING. Kind of like an on
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08/23/2008
Buyers in real estate look at dreams as finding that perfect new place to live. Sellers have dreams of pocketing as much on the sale of a house and moving on to the next phase of their life. But for all of us we need to not allow our dreams to be "deferred." Life and time moves swiftly along. We
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08/23/2008
With stress in the real estate world an ever present force I thought I would send out a reminder that there are definite effective ways to cope daily with this stress. I think the clue is given to us in nature and also in our bodies. Look at the surface of the earth, our little blue planet. It is
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08/22/2008
