Diane Daley's (dal6830) Blog

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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Caron's Gateway Real Estate - NH #054318

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2009 

IRS Presents: Top Ten Tax Time Tips  1. Gather your records...now! It's never too early to start getting together any documents or forms you'll need when filing your taxes: receipts, canceled checks, and other documents that support an item of income or a deduction you're taking on your return. A...
01/14/2009
 January is the reflection month and the plan ahead month for many of us.  When I reflect I use an exersise  I call SWOT it out.  It helps me to put things into prespective and to stratigise ways that I can improve my business and personal life.  It is a very easy thing to do if you are totally h...
01/12/2009
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 January is always a month of reflection and planning for most of us.  As we review how the previous year went and plan ahead, we try to set personal and business goals for the upcoming months that lay ahead.  The reason many of us have difficulty reaching our goals is based on a few easy things ...
01/12/2009
Recently at each Inman Conference they have had a speaker highlight various websites to watch for various reasons.  Last week in New York, Jeff Turner put together a list of 25 websites that will help you reduce costs, save time, and communicate better.  I like his last note not to forget about t...
01/12/2009
Isn't it funny how we live as if everyone who comes into our experience walks in our shoes?  I admit that I can be guilty of assumptions.  That's why when I am preparing for something important, a seminar, a webinar, a "game changer" meeting I ask for advice and reaction from other folks about wh...
01/12/2009
Surviving the Real Estate Rip Current! The key to surviving a rip current is to swim out of it, not against it. Most swimmers REALTORS ® will panic and try to swim against the current. They will tire quickly and soon go under.    Stop trying to fight the market, change the market or pray that it ...
01/12/2009
For most people, being able to seize a lucrative investment opprtunity is a hard nut to crack. Money is not easy to come by and that’s a universal truth now. Whatever amount of money people spare to invest for a secure future is their long-time saving and the fruit of a lifetime of toil, which, o...
01/11/2009
I am sitting here working on my daily agenda.  Thinking about my 20% that MUST be done and how much of the 80% I can't fit in. Well, I have the t.v. on as background noise on CNN - maybe I can subliminally digest some pertinent information.  I am sure this is a repeat BUT I know it is from a rece...
01/11/2009
By this time, everyone that has anything to do with Real Estate should have heard that this is a Buyers Market. What exactly is a Buyers' Market? What it is supposed to be is a time when:  *Homes are priced well  *Loans are at low interest rates    *People are prepared to buy. When all of the abo...
01/11/2009
Inspired by Mel Salazar's post about sellers using rooms in their home for storage, and Cathy Lee's post about returning rooms to their original purpose .... I remembered a staging project in an occupied home that we completed this past year.  The home (in Portland's Hawthorne district) was a cha...
01/11/2009