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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2009
Had a little field experiment the past week and thought I would share. When you were young, did you ever happen upon a piece of what you thought to REAL GOLD? How exciting that is - The thought of being RICH . . . I wonder what it's worth? So you took it to the wise old parents who glanced at it ...
02/08/2009
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Check out this Virtual Slide show Debbie just put together on her new listing in The village of Cherry Glen in Burton Hills - Green Hills - Nashville, TN I just think this thing shows a lot of class. Deb advised these folks on staging and took all of these photos herself. There's more to "marketi...
02/06/2009
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If you are a "seasoned agent" and are looking for a way to enhance your business . . . That is . . . Sell more houses . . . Scroll down the page to the post I published about 45 minutes ago entitled "Kinesthetic Learning" Read down to the bottom . . . and follow the directions . . . There is no b...
02/06/2009
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We learn best experientially. I know this is a fact. Oh, I know that given a gaggle of people some are "Visual Learners" . . . Some are "Auditory Learners" . . . and some are "Kinesthetic Learners" . . . How do I know this? Well, because that's what "they" have taught me in every "Train the Train...
02/06/2009
Hey! Feel free to pitch in some ideas . . . The ongoing dialog and buzz in our industry seems a bit fixated on the lack of dollar producing activity out and about in the marketplace. There are MANY REALTORS "out there" every day working VERY hard and not seeing big financial gains. Even those wit...
02/05/2009
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Wow! Did something come loose in the workings of the Universe today? Perhaps a blown gasket or thrown rod or some such? I'm finishing up my day and looking back on the past 9 hours and realizing that today has been a very eventful WEEK all by itself. The good news is that there is DEFINITELY life...
02/04/2009
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When things get weird, it's time to get creative . . . Seth Godin talks about this in this blog post: Grave New World In Open Space Technology, one of the Four Principles is "Whenever it starts is the right time" . . . and we know that Creativity and Spirit don't pay much attention to the clock ....
02/03/2009
Ms Hamlett is my daughter's 4th grade teacher. She is a very wise woman who has taught 4th grade for 30+ years. From my perspective, her ability to maintain any semblance of order with a gaggle of 23 9 year olds 7 hours a day, 5 days per week is nothing short of SUPERHUMAN. "Ms Hamlett Runs her c...
02/02/2009
How often is it that you're scrolling through listings on the MLS and you see "SHOWS GREAT"? and do you believe it any more? There's something that's happened in the age of the internet. As one of our clients says often: "Boy! They sure dressed THAT pig up before taking pictures." Once a pig - Al...
02/02/2009
How often do you walk into a house and wonder: "What the heck was this seller THINKING?" Are you as amazed as I as you witness some of the jumbled floor plans builders will throw up and then wonder why people don't come RUNNING to buy them? or How 'bout when the floor plan is fabulous but the att...
02/01/2009
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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