It usually starts before 5. Sometimes, as early as 3:30. What you see on TV, brokers walking clients through completely updated, beautiful houses, that isn’t the 5 to 7 pm drill.From 5 to 7 we are on the phone, and then on the phone some more. And then on the phone some more. It isn’t uncommon to
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11/18/2015
It seems like every other day there is a “controversy” over what constitutes a bedroom. The most common subject that gets bantered back and forth is the “requirement” for a closet and how big it must be.Well, if a bedroom must have a closet then in my market I show houses with no bedrooms and man
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11/18/2015
Most of us do fairly well at keeping up with our cell phone or tablet until it needs recharging.You plug it in by your bed, in the home office, etc., while you are working in the kitchen and then promptly leave home without it.Can you have too many places to recharge you devices?Now you can have
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11/16/2015
Whew! We are half way through the "twenty-tens." Y2K was 15 years ago. Does time fly or what? Here are a few predictions for the next 5 years. Smartphone makers are stuck. What was the last big advance in smartphone technology? Other than a bendable screen, most new phones are just extensions of
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11/11/2015
Somethings don’t get better with age. One of those is the battle of how to store large silverware such as big spatulas, pancake turners, serving spoons, tongs, etc.As a rule you have a couple of choices.# 1 Put them in a big jar or other container on a counter top or in the pantry.# 2 Try to keep
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11/09/2015
Seeing houses in person is a hassle:# 1 Seller has to keep the house showing ready at all times# 2 We have to set appointments# 3 Buyers want to bring the kids, the dog, the family, etc.# 4 Listing agents want feedback, right now!!!# 5 We have to own and maintain a car that is “appropriate.”# 6 B
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11/09/2015
What I know about high fashion would take less space than the head of a pin. Way less :)However, I have heard that when fashion watchers see the same trend or “micro trend” on the runways they “call it.”I’m told this is a die-hard rule.How often do you have to see a trend or micro trend in real e
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11/05/2015
We are coming into the season where prospective buyers are most likely to get a cash infusion.It may be a holiday or end of year gift from family or a job related bonus or commission.Then right after the first of the year the tax refunds arrive.Sellers in all price ranges would do well to have th
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11/04/2015
A five acre tract is a common request, especially from someone who wants to get a horse. They may have ridden in their youth and now want to buy a horse and some land. I am working with such a client right now. They asked me about a certain parcel they had found online. In addition to all of the
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11/03/2015
I just returned from visiting family in California. My precious niece Courtney mentioned that the top item on her bucket list was – a “she shed.” A what?Once Courtney explained what it is and showed me some pictures I was reminded of the presentation Virginia Woolf made back in 1928 entitled “ A
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11/02/2015
