Are you really working? Every morning, my mother brings me the newspaper and tells me that I need to read the current real estate/economic news. Whether it's improving or crashing, she hands it to me with a wringing of the hands. Every morning as she leaves, I quietly slip the paper into the ga
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01/31/2012
Funny what a difference a few changes can make. I have never been opposed to change, and as new technology develops, I love to roll with the punches and find and grasp new things. I spend a good deal of my time learning and taking classes to find out new things (as the alphabet soup of credenti
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01/30/2012
Happy Birthday, Debb Janes!Every now and then we are privileged to meet people who really rock our world. Debb Janes is one of those people for me, and I just wanted to make a public acknowledgement of what a huge fan I am of hers. She does wonderful videos, has a series called YouTube Thursday
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01/26/2012
I have never sold a house when . . . I have been thinking of this lately, and there are three truths that immediately come to mind. I have never sold a house ~ when it was raining or dreary when we went to look. We do not live in the Pacific Northwest, and most of our days are sunny. I have le
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01/25/2012
Like I needed another addiction Several of my friends are OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). I understand it, I “get it,” I don’t have it . . . at least for the most part. But there are certain things that I get intense about, and I enjoy taking the time to make them good. Over 50 years ago,
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01/24/2012
Feedback System on Showings When I make appointments for showing properties, I make two print-outs of the MLS sheet. One of them is for me. In our MLS system, there are many options for printing. The one for me is called a Showing Report. It gives me the basics of the home, the Realtor Inform
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01/22/2012
Her son had purchased several homes through me. He and a few of his buddies had seen the restorations that my husband and I were doing in Downtown Colorado Springs, and they wanted to try their hand at it. This young man was one of the most charming individuals it had ever been my pleasure to m
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01/21/2012
Your Gravestone Have you ever thought about it? When I was young, with many previous generations of my family having lived in the same area in Central Florida, we used to ‘visit the family’ at the local cemetery on a fairly regular basis (an old Southern tradition). During that time I used to l
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01/19/2012
ActiveRain HINTSThis morning I was talking with someone about how I felt like a blind pig finding an acorn when I started on ActiveRain. After someone had told me about AR, I thought, "I'd like to blog someday," so I signed up for a year. Several months later, after having received a few emails
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01/18/2012
and that lie has shaped your life. (This post has been in Draft Mode for a while. The details are going to be kept fuzzy because this is an ongoing investigation. I thought it was timely to post it as we discuss recent lies and their affects here in the Rain.)It was the mid-1990s. They had fou
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01/14/2012
