Here I sit on the day of the Superbowl, waiting for all the people looking for a home to call me up and allow me to help them.  As I sit here and contemplate the pros and cons of floor duty, desk duty, opportunity time, or whatever else your company may call it; I decided to make the time a littl...

For the last two years, I have been taking the required GRI classes to get my GRI designation, and in November of last year; completed that goal.  I then took it a step further and decided to take the GRI 400 series which would allow me to sit for the brokers exam and become an Associate Broker i...

One of the great things about ActiveRain is the sharing of information that can help each of us grow into more professional real estate agents.  What I would like to introduce is another website that I am always suprised that agents don't use as much, but has tons of great information.  The site ...

I was reading the local paper this morning, headline was "Maryland tackling challenges of BRAC".  The article dealt with what actions that the State of Maryland was preparing to do in regards to the upcoming influx of people to certain parts of the state due to BRAC.  BRAC is the acronym for Base...

There has been much discussion on ActiveRain concerning agent productivity; one topic that I have not seen discussed much is using a client database.  How does the agent management their clients?  Let's take a look at what is involved in managing your client database: The client database needs to...

Yesterday, we had a fire break out in a home that was built in the year of 1900.  It was an older house located in Abingdon Maryland, and the most tragic part of this fire was that a husband, wife, and three grandchildren were killed due to smoke inhalation.  This fire happened at 10:00 in the mo...

Abingdon Maryland, named after Abingdon England; is nestled between Bel Air, Aberdeen, and Edgewood Maryland.  Abingdon has the home town feel with townhomes, single family homes and condiminiums located throughout.  If you ever visit Abingdon, be sure to stop in at Box Hill Pizza where you will ...

This morning, my step father brought over his new mini van to show us his successful negotiation with trading in his previous vehicles and of getting $7000.00 of the list price.  I was looking it over with my wife Mary and thought that he did a great job in getting this vehicle.  It had all the b...

For those of you who have been following our new puppies, here is a shot of three of them after nearly four weeks of life.As you can see, they are coming along great.  Looks like most will have the blue eyes of the breed, and to be perfectly honest; wish we had the room cuz I would keep them all....

One thing that many real estate agents neglect is their personal time, what they do for themselves; and not for the business.  In working practically any job, you need to make time for yourself to blow off steam or just relax.  I want to tell all as to how I relax and let the stress of real estat...