I've never understood how or why our MLS information was licensed to be shared and used by sites like Truila that compete with us.Bad enough that they encourage sellers to go it alone without a seller's agent, but they also readily opine on subjects that they have no knowledge of.They offer to gi
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09/14/2016
Donald B. Crawford, Jr., owns several radio stations, one is KAAM-AM 770 here in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. His paternal grandparents are credited with the idea of Christian broadcasting, many years ago. His grandfather was a minister. Interestingly, the first broadcast on that station wa
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07/09/2016
Rotary Founder, Paul HarrisFor decades, now, what we normally consider the mainline Protestant churches in America have been experiencing a decline in membership. Service clubs like Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, even the Free Masons, have been experiencing similar declines. While, on the one hand, serv
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05/28/2016
When I was a young man just out of high school in 1958 , it seemed that almost every car, long past its prime, had multiple bumper stickers on it that read, "Lakewood Church An Oasis of Love." The standard joke was that it was those multitudes of "An Oasis of Love" bumper stickers that were ho
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04/09/2016
At sometime in my business career spanning more than fifty years, it became in vogue for companies to not only hide the names of their executives and their whereabouts, but even the names of their employees who deal with the public. Purposely, the public is forced to go through a lot of trouble
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04/07/2016
"You don't need a doctor....here, take the secret combination of herbs. It's my new cure all elixir." Similarly, that claim spins far and wide on all night TV and radio stations. The pitch man is usually dressed in a doctor's lab coat, and does his best to pass himself off as a medical doctor. So
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03/01/2016
This summer I will celebrate my fiftieth year as a licensed real estate broker, primarily serving clients in the State of Texas, but also with some reasonable frequency acting as a consultant for real estate transactions in other states. I tell you that only because I believe it offers a pretty
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02/01/2016
Within the recent past and prior, utility companies in many states were regulated. One of the items those regulations addressed was what they could charge for their product and service. Texas was one of those states. About thirty years ago, a pitchman for the electricity providers was the speake
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01/29/2016
Benno Deltz A Young Man, His Kirwin Education, Mike Gaido’s Mentoring & the Fellow with the $50,000 By Bill Cherry Galveston's Kirwin was a boys high school that was run by the Roman Catholic Christian Brothers. Dominican and Ursuline were the Catholic girls’ high schools. After Hurricane Carl
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12/25/2015
I often wonder if Realtors -- especially those who specialize in listings like I do -- understand that, in the main, the combination of listing and selling a home is very similar to an auction. Each home is one of a kind, if you consider that there are many things that make it different from ot
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12/15/2015
