Houses and More

What a fuss a little switch in blog platforms has caused.  I'm absolutely shocked that my little announcment caused such a ruckus!.  In the last 48 hours I have aclimated myself to Typepad and tried out about a dozen different templates to see how they look.  I started with the three column desig...

I've spent the last 24 hours setting up my Real Estate Snippets blog on a new platform.  I'm really glad I didn't start out with this platform as it would have discouraged me back when I was a dinosaur in the tech sphere.  It's really user friendly once you get started, but acclimating to a new p...

I'm not writing this for points or anything, just to get the word out.  Jay & Francy Thompson from Active Rain alerted me to the 2996 Project in one of their comments on my first 911 blog.  I "Googled it" and discovered a most impressive undertaking.  Bloggers nationally and around the world sign...

Will any of us who lived through 911 forget?  Not a chance.  Someday this day will only warrant a brief mention in history books.  In like manner, the day JFK was shot is barely important anymore.  That day, too, was a nation stopper.  Everyone who lived through that day remembers where they were...

Sometimes one needs a diversion from the mundane.  Today I stumbled across a new blog with a little history lesson I found amusing.  You can share the diversion here.

Life has a way of balancing itself.  Isn't that the principle of ying/yang?  There are discouraging days and building days.  Today was a building day.  A new contact was made that smacked of my first days in real estate.  I've been drip e-mailing new listings to a wanna be client for over a year....

Did you hear the news?  The second quarter appreciation rate declined from 3.65% in 2005 to 1.17% in 2006.  The annualized appreciation figures are worse:  14.62% in 2005 to 4.68% in 2006!  This is the sharpest decline since 1975 when the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight first start...

Absolutely nothing to do with real estate, but when I was given the word "lychee" captcha I had no clue what it was.  So, thanks to Google and for those in northern climes and any other sheltered person: "A lychee is a rare sub tropical fruit originating in South China where the lychee is very im...

No, I'm not talking about houses that are dogs.  I'm talking about dogs at showings.  Six houses to show with 3 having dogs present.  One is in the laundry room (Woof! Woof!  Scratch, sniff, scratch), one in a kennel (Oh, great.  Yap! Yap! Yap!), and the cherry on the sundae:  the dog "Bobby the ...

Argh!!!!  My morning blog search has my blood boiling.  Being a licensed and experienced real estate agent has exposed me to the vagaries of the business, not just among agents but among our networks as well.  The blog post that got my attention suggests that "realtors" (sic) will discourage (act...