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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Pareto Realty - TN #251071
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 

RIS Media continues to push great news and tips to us daily. This article is particularly timely . . . Thought I'd pass it along just in case your focus is blurry. 7 Ways to take advantage of the extended tax deduction My favorite sentence in the whole thing . . . "So get moving!" All this is in ...
12/15/2009
It took me a while to get in the Spirit this year. I have many "reasons" and justifications . . . most of them having to do with being "Busy, Busy, Busy" My Bah-humbug ship sank Sunday afternoon when we drove into our driveway and noticed that our next door neighbor had beaten me to the punch wit...
12/14/2009
3 of my favorite words . . . What Matters Now and the 4th FREE! Seth Godin has just released a new and FREE ebook that he assembled, and it's a VERY cool book. Click the link @ the title above to get the download or check out his Squidoo site about it here http://www.squidoo.com/Whatmattersnowfre...
12/14/2009
The Millionaire Real Estate Agent (MREA) is a MODEL derived by Gary Keller and a collage of other highly successful people in the Real Estate Industry. Gary assembled these top producing agents into a series of masterminds to extract "best practices for a highly successful real estate business" a...
12/12/2009
  When things go weird in the environment most mammals (especially humans) innately head for cover (Safety) in groups because of their belief that there's safety in numbers. That's no secret to anyone who has read many of my blogs . . . If I have a mantra, it's: "There's NO problem that cannot be...
12/09/2009
Common sense tells us that Mortgage Interest rates cannot stay at their Historic low selves forever . . . Nearly every professional in the industry cautions customers and clients against waiting to take action on their purchases because surely when rates do begin to rise, they will rise quickly a...
12/07/2009
Seems like some people just get ALL the lucky breaks. They can sometimes make HUGE mistakes and come out smelling like a rose. While others can make a few mistakes and blow their chances of success altogether. Wherein lies the difference? "Lucky people": Practice . . . a LOT Coaching . . . Are VE...
12/06/2009
Guess what? This week, Home Mortgage rates hit the lowest number since the beginning of recorded data (1971). Also . . . Home prices have now been in decline in many markets around the country for 2+ years, and many "experts" believe that they are nearing the bottom. This may not feel like good n...
12/05/2009
Lucy Smith is the newly installed President of the Greater Nashville Association of REALTORS GNAR. Today was the day of the final General Membership 1/4ly luncheon and installation of the President and the officers for the Association. I, Mary-Sue Dietrich, Cindy Stanton Fey, and Brian Taylor wer...
12/04/2009
As we journey forth deeper into the month of December and closer to the holiday and New Year Season, I am finding more people admitting to a certain level of new-found lethargy. Yep! Seems the pulse is slowing down . . . Eyelids are drooping a bit . . . Intentional action (Lead Generation) is suc...
12/03/2009
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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