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
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We didn't get much snow in Nashville this year. So when the snow DID come last week, we made the best of the 3/4 inch accumulation of crusty ice . . . and made a life size dwarf snowman on top of our grill. Allison is putting the finishing touches, Talk about making lemonade with lemons . . . T...
03/07/2009
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About a month into the school year, my 4th grade daughter forgot her lunch. There are days when the cafeteria serves palatable food, but Fridays are not typically those days. She called me from a strange phone number which I later discovered was her teacher's cell phone. I extracted myself from t...
03/05/2009
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How many great Leaders do you know? Do they work 24/7/365? I'm betting they don't . . . for a couple of reasons. Leaders don't know "work" . . . for them, work is not work . . . It's just what they do and who they are . . . They live their lives with gusto. True Leaders know their limitations. Tr...
03/04/2009
Having just returned from the 5 days of the Keller Williams Realty Family Reunion (National Convention), my head is very close to exploding with the pressure of the new ideas and information I absorbed while there. Thankfully for most of the people around me, I think I forgot more than I remember...
03/04/2009
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. . . and why is that important to you? It's provocative questions like these that differentiate "Trusted advisers" (Consultants) from the common, run of the mill Sales people. I had the recent experience of becoming the "chief conflict resolution" peace maker to resolve an all-out brawl that was...
03/02/2009
Yep! I had a conversation with an associate a few days ago. He was worried about a new listing he had put on the market the week prior . . . He thought he might have UNDER priced it. I asked: "How could THAT be?" He said that the Seller was very motivated to sell and that they had agreed to price...
03/02/2009
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A story comes to mind about the time there was a great flood in a Village by the sea. A very religiously devout man found himself on the roof of his house with no apparent way to safety . . . and the waters were still rising. This man affirmed to himself that God would send him a sign that would ...
03/01/2009
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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