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I read a blog post yesterday that stated that realtors should try not to take responsibility for things that have no control over such as market conditions. In my next blog, I will show you one of the very best kept secrets in all of Real Estate that very very few people know or understand. Blueg...

The video section on Bluegrass Trophy Properties  is providing an educational series of videos where Joe Riddell takes his lifelong experience as a horsemen and explains many of the main factors that need to be considered in the purchase of a farm.

Bluegrass Trophy Properties wants to educate potential horse farm buyers in a way that very few Real Estate agents are capable of. And that is, what are the requirements from a facility standpoint that are needed to raise a top flight equine athelete. What I have learned in my short time here is ...

The Keeneland September sales are going thru what I call a 401K adjustment. Does -35% seen familair During Sunday's session, 255 horses sold for $14,843,000, compared to $27,096,500 for 296 horses  during the comparable  2008 session. The drop in average from $91,542 in 2008 to $58,208  this year...

Cathy Davis is a busy bee. She showed alot of a faith in the Bluegrass Trophy Properies startup and I think she is glad she did. One of the dramatic changes that is taking place in the Real Esatte sales market is the diminished influence of traditional company names and as I have stated previousl...

Joe Riddell has been working at a feverish pace at the Keeneland September sales making sure that all of his business contacts know about the introduction of Bluegrass Trophy Properties. With an idx serach of all area horse farms and Hi-Def virtual tours, it is quickly becoming a big player in th...

Bluegrass Trophy Properties in a very short time has been pretty successful in getting out our message. Buying a horse farm is a pretty complicated venture and proper representation is essential. Joe Riddell and Cathy Davis are two of the most experienced in the business and it has been a pleasur...

People from all over the world are attending the September yearling sale at Keeneland. I was told when I relocated here that that was also a very busy time for farm Real Estate activity. Thats contrary to the residential market that I am most familiar with in the midwest. After labor day, activit...

Traditional Virtual Tour image files needed to be about 100k in size to facilitate loading into the application. That meant that the raw image from 5-8 megs was shrunk down considerably in resolution. That limited the size of the image and the resolution online. Now with Hi-Def, the raw image 5-8...

I have received numerous inquires as to what is a Hi-Def virtual tour and what makes it so special. I have been doing tours since 1998 beginiing with Ipix. Early tours took almost a minute to load and the images had most of the resolution sucked out of them in order to load. The Hi-Def platform t...