Michael Jacobs blogs have been particularly thoughtful of late, making me think about things. Yesterday he talked a bit about uncertainty. Another blog was a review of the new Van Gogh movie, At Eternity's Gate. Funny how things come together in one's brain. In pondering it, which is something Mi
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01/30/2019
It is no secret that for the majority of real estate agents, real estate is a second or third career choice. Rarely what they start out to do. You don't really hear children proudly proclaiming they want to grow up to become a real estate agent. Well, unless they grow up in a family real estate b
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01/29/2019
Myrl's Jeffcoat's blog about when she started in real estate triggered this particular memory for me. She started about the same time as me, although a different decade. I tiptoed into the business when I began working as a title searcher at First American Title in 1974. After a few years of stan
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01/28/2019
If it's a Sunday in Sacramento and not a holiday, you can bet we are doing open houses -- this week in 95818. We are always hosting an open house pretty much. If a holiday interferes, sometimes a Saturday open house is substituted instead. But we give all of our listings maximum exposure. Which m
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01/27/2019
Seems it was several years ago that I subscribed to extra storage in iCloud and increased my storage capacity of Dropbox. What I didn't realize is iCloud mirrors your computer and uses space on your computer. So does Dropbox, because Dropbox works like a folder. The only way to save space with Dr
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01/26/2019
Photography inspires me in cookbooks and magazines. I do not often get a chance to cook or bake anything but every so often I do tend to find inspiration in a photograph. Can I make this object, I wonder to myself. And then I set out to do it. Not to necessarily consume the end result, but it's n
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01/25/2019
One of the ways I astound my Sacramento clients and provide superior service is to respond immediately to emails. That is easier to do when you receive emails in a more timely manner, too. Our phones have helped a lot with that. Especially when we're out in the field. However, try reading a long
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01/24/2019
If a person has never experienced good customer service, how would that individual recognize it? So much interaction today between consumer and vendor is impersonal. We scream into our phones "representative," when dealing with automated systems (or maybe that's just me) and that digital voice ca
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01/23/2019
What is a Hawaiian laulau? I know what some of you are thinking. You might be wondering if a laulau is a luau; however, you will see that a luau is spelled differently. Laulau also translates as leaf, leaf. Now you might happen to sample laulau at a luau or, if all else fails, you will more than
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01/22/2019
We spotted a couple of guys running along the Maka'eo Walking Path in Kona but at the time of day we were there (mid-afternoon), it was pretty quiet. Not a soul gardening. Not a soul relaxing under the Australian Fire Tree to read a book. Nobody but mongooses darting about.This walking path prov
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01/21/2019
