Ed Bartley's (edbartley) Blog

Let me say that I have not worked in the Real Estate industry for a little over a year due to health problems although I am now in the position to restart my real estate business. I do understand that this is a difficult economy and real estate market to do business in. Maybe that is for the best...

I recently received an email that made me laugh and when I showed it to my wife she laughed so hard that I thought she was going to have a heart attack. I have received permission to have the pics put up on my other site and they can be viewed at: http://washingtonliving.blogspot.com/ We all need...

Today I had the honor to escort my 91 year old mother to the Seattle Museum of History and Industry to hear a panel of 12 women who during WWII stepped up to the call of service. There were 12 "Rosie's" on the panel and each was asked to briefly tell their story. What wonderful stories they had t...

A recent email from Claudia Ollestad, Account Manager of Chicago Title in Seattle WA suggested several ways to survive in the market slowdown of 2008. Some of the ideas are more traditional and some are "new thinking." For those of you who are not on her email list here is a quick review of what ...

When I first came to Brio, Jonathan Washburn, the owner of Brio Realty and Active Rain was the Broker of Record. I found two things very attractive: the first was the lead capture program and the number of leads acquired throughout the State. I was also attracted by the promise of lots of company...

I recently was sent a copy of eNeighborhoods software with a trial period. I was interested to see what your program could do so I installed it on one of my computers. When I found out I had to send a credit card number to even try out the trial version I chose not to. I then uninstalled the soft...

Last week I experienced an incident in my office I hope to never experience again - a tear gas gun that looked like a real gun. Let me explain that I am a retired policeman and I am used to being around guns, I own guns, and I KNOW how to handle them in a safe manner. As such I blew it. I was wor...

I have never liked high pressure salesman. They turn me off. I will go out of my way to not use them. I think car salesmen,  insurance salesmen, and mortgage salesmen are the worst. I make sure that as a real estate agent I do not pressure my clients. I want to work with my cliens - not pressure ...

In computer time I started doing publishing work in the very early days. Our first computer capable of good desktop publishing was the Mac SE30 and Apple Laserwriter printer that we purchased used. What a computer that was in its day. We could create all sorts of professional looking black and wh...

Yes, I live in Microsoft land. I do use Microsoft programs. Does this make me different? No! What mekes me different is I am on a Mac.Now that Apple has finally come out with a computer - the Intel Mac - that I can choose what operating system to run on it - I choose to be different. When I go in...