Don Spera's (dwellinghunter) Blog

Karen, thanks for posting this information previously, it is very informative and worth mentioning again.Occasionally, when reading the posts our co-Active Rainers write... one strikes me as memorable enough that I want to "add them as an Associate."  Sometimes, when I mention that... I have had ...

There need to be more and more projects created to help our seniors as well as our veterans instead of having all of these empty buildings sitting around.  Please Uncle Sam, take these buildings and do something useful with them instead of building and tearing down and rebuilding again.  Talk abo...

                                                 Helping the Elderly - The government has so many senseless programs out there that need to be dropped.  They need to assign a task force just to eliminate government spending and waste.  These funds can then be turned into worthwhile projects to he...

Thank you Mike for such an informative article and I thought it was worthwhile passing on again.It is clearly our duty to properly market property.  Photo quality and selection are part of it. I cringe everytime I see obvious cell phone photos, with just a few crooked smeary foggy images from sme...

                                                            Does it All Boil Down to Your Commission? Are we doing our Seller a disservice by really not educating them on certain aspects of how we get paid?  Take for example when we take their listing and the commission being negotiable, do you g...

I only wish when I was a Broker/Owner, that my people would have spent 1/2 the amount of time networking as they do on these games.  It would have been a win/win for all concerned.Farmville - it's one of those insidious games that have proliferated on Facebook. You get to set up your own farm... ...

                                   PAY CUT FOR CONGRESS? As a sign of good faith and with the economy in such turmoil, Congressman Ann Kirkpatrick from Arizona has introduced legislation to cut congressional pay by 5 per cent starting in January 2011.  It would be Congress' first pay cut since 19...

What a great post from Tom.  I think a lot of us overlook how the quality is so important on the pictures we post.  After all, pictures speak a thousand dollars. I've received a number of emails asking about my real estate photography.  I'll start by stating that I am a fair photographer.  Most o...

                                                While America has been suffering through an unprecedented crisis in housing loan defaults, the VA Home Loan Guaranty Program has remained healthy. The performance of VA loans during the unprecedented downturn in the mortgage marketplace over the las...

It is great when you can break your goals down to look much more obtainable.  As they say in our biz, reduce it to the ridiculous.Hi folks. We are quickly closing in on 2010.  With that in mind I am writing this post to give you a very simple way to achieve your financials goals for next year. Fi...