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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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2011 

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Barry Owen We don't have to look very far to find disturbing news. This perturbs me a bit (Well . . . a LOT)! The little boy repeatedly comes in from the fields crying "WOLF!"  when there really isn't a wolf . . . Then . . . the one time there IS a wolf, the townfolk d...
04/15/2011
Posted on April 14, 2011 by Barry Owen When we were babies, odds are good that ALL of our parents encouraged us to SHARE . . . Our toys, our potato chips, our feelings. Why? Parents innately know that it is through sharing that we all build healthy relationships and that those who share tend to m...
04/14/2011
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Good Morning! Amy gave me "Costructive Feed-back" - Said my emails sometimes (often) have to many words and no formatting . . . and most REALTORS won't take the time to read it all :-) She's right! This one has lots of words - some formatting . . . and a quick bulletted summary right here at the ...
04/12/2011
Posted on April 11, 2011 by Barry Owen Good Morning! This past weekend had this recurring theme: "It ain't ALL about YOU!" Now! I guess anyone could take that statement and go any number of directions. (Could apply to everyone) I could be talking to the egotists in the crowd who are all about the...
04/11/2011
Posted on April 9, 2011 by Barry Owen @dumbrealtors followed me on Twitter yesterday. I always check'm out just to see if it's someone worth following and decided not. This is a guy who says he is in the market for a house and has not been pleased by the service of the REALTORS who have attempted...
04/09/2011
Posted on April 7, 2011 by Barry Owen   Courtyard 5th and Main www.5andm.com is a fabulous mixed use project that offers the best of urban living with a collage of Condominium Flats (Lofts) and townhomes, prime office space, and abundant 1st level retail space . . . in a superior location "just a...
04/07/2011
Posted on April 5, 2011 by Barry Owen The traffic light is flashing yellow at the busiest intersection creating mayhem. The service at the restaurant is SLOW. The grocery store has 2 "frozen aisles" . . . on opposite ends of the store, so at the end of you shopping you either have soupy ice cream...
04/05/2011
Posted on April 4, 2011 by Barry Owen Where do you draw YOUR line in the sand with respect to technology? Were you completely affronted by the recent switch of TV signals from Analog to Digital? I know that shift in technology rocked a LOT of people's worlds because it required attaching a new gi...
04/04/2011
Posted on April 1, 2011 by Barry Owen When I first decided to get in the business of Real Estate Sales (1993), I noticed something about this industry. It's a bunch of independent contractors who could ALL benefit from an occasional Open Space Event as a way of learning from each other and buildi...
04/01/2011
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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