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How to guarentte you get ripped off.By Vallee DelongAs Realtors we take pride in what we do.  We work long hard hours, why do we do this, Because we care.  Yes you can go to a dot com and save money.  Can also cost you money too.  Information is money and so is Knowledge.  Dot com companies and d...

 I just joined this community and wrote a article on Real Estate in the 1960's.  It seems there are quite a few season people out here who remember the old days.  I wanted to follow up with Real Estate in the 1970's.  For those that were not in the business during that time it was a 10 year perio...

You think the Market is bad now.....you just have no idea how it used to be I started selling real estate in 1961.  A lot has changed since then.  My first sale was a beautiful 1200 sqare foot house that sold for 11,000.00.  That is right 11,000.00 that same house today cost 350,000, boy has time...

I remember back in the day when a young couple would save and save and save to have 20% to put down on house or young guy would save up to buy a house and then rent out one or two rooms to make the payments.  Back then it was all about hard work and determination.My son bought his first house in ...

My son is a mortgage lender and he has been talking about blogging, like I know what this is.  I am 72 years old.  I only service my past clients now.  I do no more advertising or marketing per se.  No more rat race.  I think over the last two years I only sell about 2 or 3 homes a month.  Back w...

 There is nothing like picking a banjo.  The weather is warm and the sun is shinning and I am in heaven playing foggy mountain breakdown.  I used to drive my kids nuts with the banjo.  Whenever they need to go to bed I just pulled out my trusty ole banjo and started picking right away.  I play it...

I am a banjo picker, I have been playing the banjo now for 45 years.  Everytime I go to a listing appointment or go to show a house I pull out my banjo and start playing for them.  I just enjoy the music so much and want to entertain my clients with banjo music.  I have not had one client ask me ...

I am new at this so please forgive me.  I am about as excited as a pig in a wet blanket.  I am old but not to old.  Anyway I wanted to introduce myself and say hey....Any words of Advice for a newbie.  By the way I love banjo music so if any body knows any one at the grand ole opry, I would be wi...