You've heard of IQ. Intelligence Quotient. How smart are you? Then there's EQ, Emotional Quotient, how well do you handle feelings and your interpersonal skills? What about your HQ? You should be Working On Your Happiness Quotient. We want an A+ on this test or on a scale from 1 to 100, I wou
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03/11/2009
In working with folks looking at houses of every size and price range you just run into a whole mix of people from every economic status and such. One of the most fascinating mixes is age differences within families. The behavior of the 70+ yr. olds and the twenty somethings can be quite striking
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03/11/2009
One thing I see a lot in the Real Estate industry these days is the re-inventing of oneself. Multiple income streams, people going into the business, people exiting the business. Happening in all areas with REALTORS, Stagers, Mortgage folks, etc. But one thing I would remind people, and blast thi
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03/10/2009
As I have gotten older I am so much not anymore a fence sitter. Not that I still can't see that parts of the world with its shades of grey, but many things can be clearly black and white. People you encounter are not simply positive or negative influencers to you and your world. They truly affect
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03/09/2009
Today I was inspired by fellow Active Rain Photography expert from Woodland Park, CO, Debi Boucher in an area many of us probably don't think about, and that is dilapidated stuff. With deference to some of the great inspectors and their posts that I have read here including Charles Buell of Seatt
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03/08/2009
I am just NOT a Twitterer. I am as Techno Geek as the next red blooded real estate agent out there but with Twitter I still don't get it. All you long time proponents and lovers of Twitter where it is driving mega millions of business your way, please do not throw snowballs my way or call me an i
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03/07/2009
In all our lives we live with an element of uncertainty. Just getting up in the morning to look for houses, showing houses, drive to the grocery story, you really never know what is in store for you. You have to be okay with that otherwise go back in bed, pull the covers over your head and pray a
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03/06/2009
I got to thinking the other day about that old paying it forward thing. You know, random acts of kindness, doing things for people just out of the goodness of the heart. What made me get to thinking about this whole pay it forward topic was I really think this "Karma" thing has something to it. W
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03/06/2009
