Dave's Real Estate Recital

I ran across this quote from Abraham Lincoln recently, and it made me wonder if he could see the future, or if history is so darned repetative that his advice is just plain timeless.  Here's what he said:  "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.    You cannot strengthen the weak by weak...

Last March, a good friend sent me the following information, suggesting (back in March) that many of our politicians use the word "Billion" a bit too casually. "A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in...

A story is told that one evening, an old Cherokee chief told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, ...

I don't know if I'm supposed to do this, but if not, hopefully everyone will forgive me. I posted this yesterday, but I think I didn't send it to the right groups or something, because I didn't get enough help. So, here it is again: Ok, folks, we're looking for some experienced property managemen...

Been thinking about all the good things I have -- counting Life's blessings you might say. My Wife, My Daughters, Their Health, My Health, Our Freedom, Those Willing Souls Who Sacrificed Much if Not All So We Could Have It, Our Good Friends, A Cool-in-Summer, Warm-in-the-Winter, Dry Place to Slee...

We've all heard and said it: "Yup, time sure does get by fast." A cogent observation indeed. Time is probably the single greatest gift and resource any of us have and yet how often to we loose track of it, and look around wondering where it went. I propose that a better question to ask is, "How d...

I responded to Bryant Tudas' post "Looking at the Past to Predict the Future" this morning, which is re-post of one he wrote back in '06 expressing some concern about the wisdom of perhaps being a bit too aggressive in our sales efforts, and thereby contributing to future problems for clients who...

Just wanted to pass along a warning for all my fellow AR types out there. Recently I was going through my emails and found one alleging it was from CNN proclaiming "Nicolas Cage Dies in Freak Accident". Well, he being one of my favorite actors, and absolutely without thinking, I clicked on the li...

Is it just me in Prescott, Arizona or have any of you folks out there had it "up to here" with finding the phrase "to be determined in escrow" in the Property Identification section of a purchase contract? Let me tell you another story. Several years ago, a friend of mine who was a pretty new age...

My Dad owns a Schrade-Walden pocket knife. It's nothing fancy, just a simple little 3-bladed folding knife, and being a patient and meticulous man, he has always kept a razor edge on it. As a boy, I greatly admired that knife and the care Dad gave it. One day as he sat in his living room chair ho...