Better Than Your Average Joe

December 8th I got everything done I wanted to today.  Contacted a prospective seller with some marketing ideas, went through my list of past leads and toured seven higher end homes.  The best thing I did was Tweet about the properties as I was leaving so to better help myself remember the homes...

Today, I finished my business plan and finished a database project I was working on.  Once the database project was completed I went through the virtual dead wood pile.  If anybody remembers Brian Buffini's buddy Joe Niego they are sure to remember him divinging into a trash can for dead leads.  ...

Full Circle.  When I was a new foreman many years ago one of my workers broke something and didn’t fess up.  I was in a panic because I had a good idea who broke the equipment and let him off the hook because he confused me terribly.  Lonnie my boss said  don’t worry about it “full circle”.  I a...

We see them on our association’s websites, we see them in our e-mail and in some cases we may even get a phone call from our local lobbyist asking us to answer the political calls to action.  When we receive these nagging requests sometimes we forget  make the calls or answer the emails.  We eve...

If you have missed this great home it will be open this Sunday.  Visit one of Kay Builder’s masterpieces where no detail is left out.  If you are a Realtor who has clients for this beautiful home and you need a Sunday off, don’t fret I will take care of them like they were my own clients and call...

With all of the discussions in regards to Penn State’s scandal, it’s difficult to think that somebody wouldn’t do the right thing.  Unfortunately it happens all over the world.  Read  John Kolsky’s post and you will see what I mean. Please respond to John's original post. Responsibility. It’s und...

State Representative Patti Bellock is again in a giving mood.  Rep Bellock and her staff is organizing a care package drive for our military that are overseas for the holidays.  Donated items may be dropped off at Rep Bellock's office located at 1 South Cass Avenue, Suite 205, in Westmont, from ...

My wife gave me a guitar many years ago as a Christmas gift and I never learned to play it.  Recently I started to take some lessons and in the midst of taking those lessons my dad was told he had six months to  live.  I stopped taking the lessons shortly after that.My sister and I take turns go...

Today has been a very good day at the Coldwell Banker Office in Hinsdale , somebody actually appreciates the little things I do.  Like Sally Field  said in 1984 when accepting her Academy Award for Places in the Heart, "You like me, you really like me".  Like  I have been saying “it’s a good lif...

House Bill 506 is currently in the Illinois Senate’s Executive Committee waiting to be voted on (SB 395) . This is for fraudulent homestead exemptions. It passed in the House of Representatives last year and stalled in the Senate.   The Illinois Association of Realtors supports homestead exempti...