Barry Owen's Blog
Tips and commentary For Home Buyers & Sellers and REALTORS with primary focus on LIVE - Work - Play - Life Rhythm - Life Performance Oriented thinking for regular folks
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2008
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This is just a check-in . . . I'm wondering if this phenomenon is unique to the Middle Tennessee market (an isolated storm) or if it is happening elsewhere???Here we sit with more properties than Buyers - A 28% DECREASE as compared to 1st quarter 07 in units sold in the 1st quarter of 2008. Those...
04/13/2008
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Or 3 or 4?In my world, a "Brian" is a goto person for anything that comes up. I was with a client looking at houses all day yesterday and all day today. This is a very important client - They ALL are . . . We all have the same goals - to find as close to perfect a home as possible given the finan...
04/12/2008
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I think the odds are good that I'm "Preachin' to the choir" because I have been consistently impressed with the people who hang out here @ Active Rain. My hope is that there is a whole "silent majority" of folks reading every bit of wisdom they can find here. There are SO many veteran agents givi...
04/11/2008
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Be careful what you ask for . . . That's all I gotta say!And look back a few posts to the one I wrote about the Accumulation Effect . . . When you CONSISTENTLY do the right things, good things happen - sometimes with an overwhelming abundance.For the past few months, I have focused my lead genera...
04/10/2008
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Do you remember the game?When you were young with not much to do - tired of playing with your toys or packed into a car driving "forever" on the family vacation . . . and your friend or sister says: "Let's play the staring game . . . First one to blink LOSES!"Do you remember the feeling?When was ...
04/08/2008
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Every so often, I get the reminder of the sheer energy associated with the emotional investment our clients make in this endeavor of Buying and Selling houses. The stresses include uncertainty of the process and therefore a level of distrust . . . Financial concerns (As a Leader in the Military o...
04/07/2008
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One of my favorite parts of Nashville is East Nashville. It's an eclectic hodgepodge of historic structures and is full of interesting people and culture. You can find great food on many corners, an abundance of coffee shops and interesting bars and clubs, a wide diversity of people, greenways an...
04/07/2008
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Hi folks, It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon, and I had minute to sit, so I thought I would write a bit of this stuff out of my head - It's getting crowded in there/here :-)When all the rain started hitting Middle Tennessee a few weeks, I gazed up at the roof of my house and thought to myself th...
04/05/2008
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The West Nashville Real Estate market is alive and well. This "close-in area" has many neighborhoods which blend into a wonderful quality of life. This is a very "walkable" and lush green -BEAUTIFUL area of Nashville with lots of great parks (Percy & Edwin Warner are the largest) and playgrounds...
04/05/2008
We have some wonderful friends with whom we have had the pleasure of working for the past several years with their real estate needs. I first came to know George & Lisa when they moved to Nashville with a job relocation. They were actually referred to me me by 3 different people simultaneously - ...
04/04/2008
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Stream of consciousness commentary on the real estate industry from the perspective of a Principal Real Estate Broker and Founder of Pareto REalty, LLC in Middlle Tennessee - Also a Career Development Coach with vast Organizational Development/Transformation training and experience - in the industry since 1993