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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

ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS

2011 

Are you "Well Connected?" How many "Friends do you have?" Do these "Relationships" fulfill you (personally and/or professionally)? How many of these "Friends" do you REALLY know? Of those you really DO know, with whom do you interact with frequency at anything other than a shallow contact? Where ...
07/13/2011
If you don’t like the statistics you’re hearing, change the channel . . . You’ll find wildly different stats and analysis while you surf. Before polluting your mind with statistics that aren’t necessarily relevant to YOUR house and/or decision to sell a house, consider the following. Most folks ...
07/11/2011
Posted on July 7, 2011 by Barry Owen The wistful comment: “I just wish everything could stay the same” is commonly the first response when reality begins setting in that change is in order (coming soon). The tragic news is that “Everything is Moving” (ALWAYS) and that this world is and always has...
07/07/2011
Happy July 4th! I sure hope you have a FABULOUS day CELEBRATING our Independence as a country. While you’re at it, celebrate your FREEDOM . . . and do it all safely (and responsibly). For most folks, holidays are good reasons to take a day or so off work and be a bum around the house – or travel ...
07/04/2011
So . . . You want a condominium in West Nashville, do ya? You’re wanting to “downsize” and are not all that enthused about the notion of living in a typical condominium development with other people living over (or under) you. You don’t want a bunch of stairs . . . In fact, it would be PERFECT if...
07/01/2011
Most folks who aren’t from around here probably wouldn’t wander to the North and West 1/4 of Metropolitan Nashville (Davidson County) unless they just happened to be buzzing through to Clarksville or St Louis down I-24. Why else would you even go there? Well! If heading West on I-24 is your only ...
07/01/2011
Hmmmm . . . . YES! Reminds me of the Rolls Royce dealer who (when asked the price of a car) quipped: “If you must ask the price, you cannot afford it.” Most anything that the Seller KNOWS about the PHYSICAL condition of a house (past or present) SHOULD be disclosed. So . . . If a seller of a hous...
07/01/2011
I know the Title is a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious) but it sheds some light on what we in the military would call a CF (Charlie Foxtrot – more affectionately known as a Cluster F___)  which results in a quagmire of misunderstanding that is simply FUBAR (F’d up beyond all recognition). That’...
07/01/2011
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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