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Sometimes the funniest titles hold the greatest truth. In this book, You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School and Other Simple Truths of Leadership, Mac Anderson explores leadership. In the introduction, Anderson provides an explanation of this quote "You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School." This boo...
03/03/2024
In any business, the customers or clients differ.  This difference is called demographics.  In real estate there are a plethora of “WHO's.” There are real estate certifications and designations that address the specific "WHO" do real estate agents love.For example, retiring or relocating military...
03/03/2024
A recent article in Inman (a real estate industry website) made this statement:“Real estate agents are bound by their professional ethics..”The article had a link to another article which referenced the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Code of Ethics.This statement “real estate agents boun...
03/02/2024
This month's Active Rain Challenge by Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - Wanda Can!  was to share one's dreams, one's vision of the future via a Dream Board or Vision Board.What I now to be true after all these years on this year,  when one is much closer to the end of life’s path, dreams continue change and e...
02/29/2024
Licensed by each state, real estate agents can practice their craft in any area of the state. However, for REALTORS® this would violate Article 11 of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.  In Article 11, the following is written:“REALTORS® shall not undertake to provide specialized profes...
02/29/2024
One of my 2024 personal goals was to build up my strength. Sitting at a computer an average for 2-4 hours daily with occasional walks of vacant land parcels of 2 to 40 acres does not build upper body strength. However it does make for fairly strong legs. Today was my first class of strength build...
02/28/2024
When selling a home, these four valuable keys as noted above are indeed essential. However, the one missing key and the most valuable and golden key for residential home sellers is this one:The TRUST KeyPeople buy from people they know and trust.  Yes, it is essential to have a professional real ...
02/28/2024
FACT: The real estate industry is indeed a 24/7 business. To think real estate is part time is a foolhardy belief.Professional real estate agents receive calls, texts and emails before 6am and well after 9pm depending upon the time zone. These communications happen between Sunday to Sunday and ev...
02/27/2024
How often do we think of Monday or any day as “It’s Just Another Day?” Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney wrote these lyrics, Another Day, which Paul sang.The meaning of this song by the songwriters is about the drudgery and sadness of a single women’s life.Yet these four words, “It’s Just Anothe...
02/26/2024
Seth Godin provides this definition of brand that being: “A set of expectations, memories, stories, and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over another.” I agree yet there is something else that needs to be addressed.Vacant land ...
02/23/2024
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