A cowboy in a continental suit, absurd!Perhaps you should listen to Marty Robins before I make my point. As the ballad tells us you can’t judge a man or a woman by their appearance. Real estate professionals can’t afford to forget that strangely dressed cowboy. Three people from my past come
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10/31/2012
Look at your license! Look at your agent’s license. Chances are it says: "Real Estate Broker," "Associate Real Estate Broker" or "Real estate Salesman." Do you understand? Many do not! A "Real Estate Broker" is one who buys and/or sells real estate for another. A "Real Estate Broker" can be a na
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10/29/2012
How Can We Forget With attorneys television adds for asking if you’re the victim of fraud by predatory lenders. With so many blaming their foreclosure on their lenders, conveniently forgetting they were foreclosed on because they stopped making their payments. Claiming fraud! Claiming they were n
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10/12/2012
Allowed, Allowable, Not-Allowed, Ambiguity, To Thine Own Self Be True Allowed: Following the letter of a law or regulation as it has been done acceptably before. The safest yet often costly of mistake of the uneducated and/or timid. Allowable: Stretching the law or regulations, based on known cas
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10/11/2012
I recently saw a flyer offering tenants a $50.00 "incentive" for referring new tenants to the renter’s project. I also got an e-mail from the landlord thinking I was an active REALTOR® offering me a month’s rent as commission for a similar referral. Now I’m a big advocate of coaxing referrals fro
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10/10/2012
Every once in a while we need to put people on notice, it can be for any reason. But, wether required by contract or law we need to be able to prove we gave such notice. E-mail doesn’t provide such proof regardless of automatic return .First class mail provides even less assurance. The traditiona
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10/09/2012
I love redundancy! Redundancy is said to be the best way to learn. Redundancy works for teachers. With that said please understand my redundancy. Another forgotten lesson: Nothing changes except technology, facades and faces! It's said that those that don't remember history are doomed to repeat i
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10/08/2012
With All The Social Grace Of A Grade School Bully! The rental agent, the apartment owner’s favorite sister’s son rewrote the lease for his 500 tenants I was ask by a tenant to review it. The lease was written with all the social graces of a grade school bully. You know the type a 15 year old si
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10/01/2012
