STORY ONE: Last year, I co-oped with a selling agent who I assumed was a licensed broker. For all practical purposes she represented herself as one.Her "company" bore her name as did her signs.What I found out was that, while she was certainly doing her best, she didn't really know what she was
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01/29/2017
A woman who I didn't know, called me a week or so ago at the suggestion of a mutual friend.The woman lives in California, but she and her husband had bought a Dallas home in a popular and hot 1930s section of bungalows. The MLS shows that they paid $425,000 for it; apparently it was a cash sale.
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01/24/2017
When I was a teenager, the advent of Top 40 Radio was just beginning. Prior to that time, there were less than 1,000 disc jockeys in the US. And then with Top 40 came thousands. I was so enamored with broadcasting, that I weaseled myself into being a Top 40 disc jockey when I was 14, and being a
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01/13/2017
I'll start....Nothing makes me crazier than bathrooms photographed with the toilet seat lid open, and kitchens with the counters full of stuff, and sinks with unwashed dishes.What are some of yours? BILL CHERRY, REALTORDALLASSince 1966214 503-8563
01/11/2017
President Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1865 at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. That was nearly 151 years ago. Who do you suppose now owns President Lincoln's grave at the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois?I don't know the answer because state law
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01/06/2017
Muses from the Man in the Park It seems to me that one of the most cancerous events that has oozed into the professional real estate brokerage business since the beginning of time is the advent of the national FSBO web sites like Zillow, Truila and Refin.And I frankly don't understand why the reg
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01/02/2017
Christina and Tarak El MouseaYou've surely watched Tarak and Christina El Mousea's HGTV program, "Flip or Flop;" perhaps, like me, you are so addicted that you watch the reruns.When I first entered the real estate business it was by accident. I was a banker who was just out of graduate school.
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11/30/2016
When I first became licensed as a Texas Real Estate Broker in 1966, things were much different than they are now.Here are some examples: Yard signs had only the name of the brokerage company, address and phone number. The listing agent was not shown. Everyone did dual agency,
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10/24/2016
Bill Cherry1966Founded Companies in Houston's Museum Districtand in Galveston's East End Historic Districtand Strand Historic Business District. It is only the result of chance that after beginning as an English teacher, I found myself in the business department of three universities -- Universi
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10/09/2016
I become more and more annoyed with the National Association of Realtors for allowing Truila and others top act, in many ways, as a real estate broker. If I am correct, there are no recognized residential Multiple Listing services that are not direct affiliations of an Association of Realtors. Ye
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10/04/2016
