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Dennis Swartz, MBA, GRI...experience counts! (Full Circle Property Management)

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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
Real Estate Broker Retired

I think this is a question for FB.

Jul 29, 2017 07:21 AM
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Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Ours are fairly clean, big fines for littering and crews out there cleaning them up several times each summer.

We do see a few suicidal deer though.

Jul 29, 2017 06:36 AM
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Anthony Acosta - ALLATLANTAcondos.com
Harry Norman, REALTORS® - Atlanta, GA
Associate Broker

My city has clean roads and highways. 

Jul 29, 2017 06:12 AM
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Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

They do prisoner work around these parts and it does make a difference

Jul 29, 2017 05:15 AM
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Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers
Serving the Greater Phoenix and Scottsdale Metropolitan Area - Scottsdale, AZ
Haven Express @ Keller Williams Arizona Realty

They do a great job here - and I do see folks in jumpsuits doing clean up from time to time too!

Jul 29, 2017 05:07 AM
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

Oh my goodness, Dennis... that sounds just awful. Can't say the same about the highways in the Charlotte area... lush landscaping, pretty flowers all along huges stretches of the roads.

Jul 29, 2017 04:57 AM
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Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
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Oh hell NO.  My area and freeways get top billing for dirty, trashy and homeless.  I don't know why we are not using resources to clean up. Insane!! In my area the local government wants volunteers to do clean up.  

Jul 29, 2017 08:39 AM
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Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

Boston doesn't have trashy highways.... they actually have groups picking up debris on the sides of the highways periodically...

Jul 29, 2017 08:01 AM
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Lynnea Miller
Bend Premier Real Estate - Bend, OR
Premier Real Estate Service in Central Oregon

Our local sheriff's office has inmates cleaning the local county roads. In the city, volunteers clean and weed our roundabouts and city parking strips. There are street sweepers which the city uses for the actual roads.

Jul 29, 2017 06:50 AM
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Dave Halpern
Dave Halpern Real Estate Agent, Inc., Louisville, KY (502) 664-7827 - Louisville, KY
Louisville Short Sale Expert

Louisville, KY, pretty clean.

 

Jul 29, 2017 05:34 AM
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Fred Griffin Florida Real Estate
Fred Griffin Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
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Our highways are roads through paradise.   Private companies can "adopt" a street.   The interstates and main highways are cleaned up by contractors.   Other state and county roads are attended to by prisoners on work release, or by misdemeanor offenders who got "3 days on the Sheriff's Road Patrol" as part of their plea bargain.

Jul 29, 2017 05:20 AM
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Dave Martin (703) 585-4687
Fairfax Realty - Fairfax, VA
Making Realty Dreams a Reality #WeWillGetYouHome

We consistently rank among the worst place for communting .. Northern Virginia area

Dec 29, 2017 06:43 PM
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Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Sorry to hear, don't have a big problem here.

Jul 31, 2017 08:50 AM
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Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!"

Wow glad I do not live there.  Lucky we have the sheriff department have some guys in orange vest picking up trash on our highways in Denver.

Jul 30, 2017 09:32 AM
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Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

I live in a clean city.

Jul 30, 2017 06:33 AM
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Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

Good ideas, Dennis.  It's not so bad here in my town.

Jul 30, 2017 06:16 AM
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Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Andover, MA
Andover, MA: Andover Luxury Homes For Sale

Dennis Swartz - in fact, within each town there are communities that can be nominated for such awards....

Jul 29, 2017 11:16 PM
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Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

Tennessee overall does a good job of keeping highways and right of ways clean and trash free.

Jul 29, 2017 06:24 PM
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Ryan Huggins - Thousand Oaks, CA
https://HugginsHomes.com - Thousand Oaks, CA
Residential Real Estate and Investment Properties

Don't get you know who started on this one!

Jul 29, 2017 05:30 PM
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Jordan Whitecar
Lake Natoma Realty - Folsom, CA
First time home buyer specialist

i always found ohio to have relatively decent roads, the I5 corridor between Stockton and Los Angeles is pretty awful, chicago hands down is the scariest road to drive, and the only place my truck was used as target practice

for reference, i was a long haul truck driver for 4 years before becoming a Realtor and have driven over 400,000 miles in all 48 contiguous states.

Jul 29, 2017 02:46 PM
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Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

What a mess.....who's not paying attention. That's horrible.

Jul 29, 2017 01:54 PM
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Marco Giancola
Beachfront Realty - Miami Beach, FL
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Ours aren't bad at all. I think up by you they should put the chain gang out to clean it up.

Jul 29, 2017 11:43 AM
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Sandy Padula & Norm Padula, JD, GRI
HomeSmart Realty West & Florida Realty Investments - , CA
Presence, Persistence & Perseverance

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's plan for public works and it works for me!

Jul 29, 2017 11:24 AM
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Carol Williams
Although I'm retired, I love sharing my knowledge and learning from other real estate industry professionals. - Wenatchee, WA
Retired Agent / Broker / Prop. Mgr, Wenatchee, WA

That would be way too logical, Dennis.  Make the prisoners work?  Cruel and unusual punishment.  

Jul 29, 2017 10:01 AM
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
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Oh, that is so sad, Dennis Swartz! Even passing through Charlotte via our freeways, passersby see gorgeous green and impeccably clean! I've often joked that instead of being called the Queen City, we should be called the Green City!  I hope how soon someone catches on and takes the bull by the horns and gets Columbus freeways cleaned up, Dennis.

Jul 29, 2017 09:45 AM
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Annette Lawrence , Palm Harbor, FL 727-420-4041
ReMax Realtec Group - Palm Harbor, FL
Making FLORIDA Real Estate EZ

Traveling I75 South, every 30 seconds a plastic bag would blow from the Waste Management truck ahead of me. When I observed all the stuff piled against the chain link, it all looked similar.

As a result Saint Petersburg Florida is highly likely to ban plastic bags at groceries. That means instead of using grocery bags as my kitchen bag, I will need to BUY other plastic bags. There will be no change. Why not just fix Waste Management?

 

Jul 29, 2017 08:31 AM
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Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

I can't say the same about our freeways, and we have a lot of them. Perhaps more of an issue in the city prope

Jul 29, 2017 06:44 AM
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Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

We have very clean roads in Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

Jul 29, 2017 06:38 AM
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Joe Pryor
The Virtual Real Estate Team - Oklahoma City, OK
REALTOR® - Oklahoma Investment Properties

That does not sound appealing. When I get investors in from out of state they remark how clean Oklahoma City is.

Jul 29, 2017 06:25 AM
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Michael J. Perry
KW Elite - Lancaster, PA
Lancaster, PA Relo Specialist

sad to hear

Jul 29, 2017 05:43 AM
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Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Chicago, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Chicago is right up there when it comes to dirty freeways!

Jul 29, 2017 05:37 AM
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William Feela
WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN
Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

Minnesota is great...I thought Florida, especially Orlando was dirty for such a tourist destination when I was there

Jul 29, 2017 05:18 AM