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Calendars and the real estate industry seem to go together like cookies and milk and every year REALTORS® and mortgage professionals dutifully set aside a handful of important marketing dollars to produce them to send to their client and prospect lists.  But are these calendars doing any good in ...
07/13/2007
The San Francisco Chronicle and other local media are reporting huge disparities between richer and poorer neighborhoods as a local garbage lockout continues through it's 11th day here.  Charges of redlining neighborhoods for pickups and service have been circulating for a few days now as it beca...
07/12/2007
There's a house down the hill from where I live that sold recently... for about $300K less than the average home sells for in the area.  Locals all know about the house-- it had long been less than pristinely maintained as the original owners grew elderly and invalid.  Folks assumed it would need...
07/10/2007
My colleagues and I recently attended the a la mode Annual Convention in Las Vegas-- a show heavily attended by a la mode's appraisal software customers (perhaps more so than their real estate, mortgage origination, and home inspection clients).  Me, I was fascinated by the keynote speaker, Georg...
07/03/2007
We're entering a second wave of environmental consciousness in America and companies are jumping on the "green" bandwagon fast.  There's good reason to do so:  it makes good marketing sense to be "green" when consumers indicate they by and large prefer "green" behavior and are willing to seek it ...
07/03/2007
Do we take advantage of the relative anonymity of the Internet to be more rude and insensitive online than we would be in person?  The thought occurred to me after responding to a blog post here on AR about a month and a half ago when I chastised the post writer for being spiteful toward a compan...
06/25/2007
Myers Internet and PsPrint today announced a marketing agreement to provide quality print and direct marketing services to Myers Internet customers.  Since 1995, Myers Internet has provided real estate and mortgage professionals with quality website and online marketing tools.  Realizing that dir...
06/22/2007
I did a lot of business in Las Vegas during the 80's-- so much so that I absolutely stopped staying at hotels that had casinos.  Not because I gambled but because of the noise... the perpetual bombardment of stimulation that makes you oblivious of time and keeps you amped longer than a hard-worki...
06/19/2007
This one isn't real estate related other than by request after an earlier blog post on individual liberties and free speech freedoms versus property values and the right to not be deprived of one's property:  Crosby, Stills, Nash and YoungFind The Cost Of Freedom (Written By Stephen Stills)Find t...
06/15/2007
Late last year a small memorial to our soldiers killed in Iraq appeared on a hillside piece of land in Lafayette, CA-- visible from parts of Highway 24 and from the BART tracks that parallel the highway.  At first the memorial was relatively inconspicuous-- a few dozen three-foot tall white cross...
06/15/2007
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