It's time to winterize in the South so I sent the plumber to one of our REO's and warned him that it probably wouldn't be a difficult job because the house had no water heater. (He'd already finished a NICE REO that had the water heater above the garage so he said it was a good thing I winteriz
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11/30/2007
I have a listing with 3 acres. It has always been so hard to pinpoint corners and see what the overall view is like. With Google Earth on your computer you type in the address and you are zoomed right into the area. You can tell where the trees are, what is pasture, and the location of the bu
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11/29/2007
Too often one of our listed clients will call and say that the agent who made an appointment to show the house didn't show up. I always tell my listed clients to turn every light in the house on, open the blinds, leave and the person showing should turn off the lights.I've had it happen to me.
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11/29/2007
Pearls Before Swine is a comic strip written by Stephan Pastis and it helps me start my day. Today the strip was about blogs. http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/Rat says he likes blogs "because they provide their frustrated creator with the delusional outlet of being a published author, sort o
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11/28/2007
Searcy Arkansas has always been a very quiet town with several industries and a very progressive outlook. We have been discovered by the gas and oil companies. We have what is called Fayetteville shale and companies are coming in droves to lease or buy our mineral rights, drill on our lands, an
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11/27/2007
Searcy AR is a small town of about 20,000 people and is home to Harding University, a Church of Christ school with over 6000 students. Approximately 49 states and 53 foreign countries are represented at Harding.Within the past 5 years or so, Harding has been on a building program that has made s
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11/26/2007
We who do REOs never know what we're going to get into when we go through the front door. That is if there is a front door. Sometimes the doors are gone! I learned many many years ago to be suspicious of what may jump on your legs as you step into the house. Fleas may be starving for a new pe
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11/25/2007
We know that yesterday was Black Friday and people were in lines before 4:00 a.m. I can't imagine wanting anything personally bad enough to go that early to a store. The lines must be sorta like those big tailgate parties that they have on the parking lots before football games. I avoid those
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11/24/2007
Today is the day to stuff yourself with turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, green bean casserole, hot rolls, etc. I have been there and done that. I even cooked the turkey and dressing and giblet gravy and I really don't like that highly advertised green bean/onion ring casserole.But for some reaso
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11/22/2007
Sitting at the bank yesterday in the little drive-through lanes, I was looking at the SUV beside me. I thought the vehicle looked familiar and that I might know the person in it. But to save me, I couldn't see who it was. The windows were so dark I couldn't tell who the driver was. I couldn't
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11/20/2007
