Get Nekkid! I'm not especially comfortable, standing in front of TSA's full body scan, 'back-scatter' X-ray scanners. I'm less comfortable with a physical search, and always recall the frustrated gentleman's comment to a TSA screener, "Don't touch my junk!" ("junk?" or is it capitalized... "Junk?
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04/08/2011
Today, I was told that I am a dope, while someone else complimented me on my business choice. So, like Taylor Swift, you'd better not "Date" me, because I'll write a song about you! Of course, I would never use names, but let me describe the situation: Today, I had a "for sale" sign placed on som
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04/07/2011
Yogi Berra got this one right. Every day, we come to "forks in the road." We usually do not recognize them at the time, but, with our 20/20 hindsight, we recognize them. The real estate industry is at a fork in the road, a fork with two clear directions. And, the great thing is that we can see th
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04/06/2011
Ah, back to the basics... and, a little refresher along the way. I read a new post today, from Erica Kelter, of Helena, Montana. It brought enough of a reaction from me that I need to expand a bit. Erica wrote of her first GRI class (tomorrow), and, of her excitement. That's one of the things I l
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04/05/2011
Fiirst, I must apologize to all of my previous clients and contacts, whether or not we ever closed a transaction together, for letting them drop off of my radar screen. Oh, I didn't "forget" them. I just got too busy, and was looking ahead... not behind. Shame on me! Second, to all real estate pr
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04/04/2011
I know; I know... a picture, at one time, was only worth a thousand words. But, with inflation, it started to take more words to equal a picture. Now, with the graphic-rich Internet environment where we live and work, It takes a million words to equal a GOOD picture. So... how do you get a GOOD p
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04/03/2011
"Don't Think Green... Think Beige," is a phrase that saved my marriage, and, maybe my life! I'm prone to embellish a good story, so stick with me for a minute, OK? In 1978, the ARMY transferred me to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Of course, my ever-faithful wife and kids followed me. We had been in Ger
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04/01/2011
13% of U.S. homes vacant, according to RealtyBizNews.com, based on data gleaned from Census. That's nearly one home of every eight that are vacant. Well... is that good, or is that bad? I am an optimist. I believe that glasses are three-quarters full. I believe that, wherever I go, it is downhill
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04/01/2011
Sierra Vista, in Spanish, means Mountain View. So what? Many areas of our great continent have mountain views... so what makes Sierra Vista, Arizona different? Another term, "sky islands," needs to be introduced. Sky islands are essentially small (usually) mountains, or mountain ranges, that seem
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03/31/2011
Too Much Information? As we become more tech-savvy in our marketing, struggling (and succeeding) to provide high-quality, effective tools to the consumer of real estate services, we have succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. Some of my web sites, for instance, make available every imaginable infor
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03/30/2011
