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2011
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I am always baffled when I look in MLS to search for homes and some of the listings have NO PHOTO. I have come to expect this with some bank owned properties where the REO agents just don't upload photos. I usually zip by these listings with no intention of showing them to my clients. I was sea...
06/29/2011
Our job as a Realtor is always so interesting. No two deals are ever the same. It is the only career that I know of where our job description changes from deal to deal. The main requirement in my mind is Flexibility and Patience. Some transactions go off without a hitch. Everyone plays by the ...
06/28/2011
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Spring and Summer are always the busiest time for real estate in Colorado. Once the leaves start to fall off the trees, people tend to hold off on listing their home for sale because the number of buyers actively looking for homes has dropped. This past couple of months has been extremely busy...
06/27/2011
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My sister, Diane, lives in Los Alamitos, California. She is a nut just like me. Whenever the two of us get together, we laugh until we cry about the silliest things ever. No one else gets our humor the way we do, but we simply don't care. Even my daughter, Erin, looks at the two of us and sha...
06/26/2011
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Not many lenders wow me these days! I get phone calls constantly from lenders wanting to "buy me coffee" (which I don't drink) and tell me all about how wonderful they are. I have listened to so many lenders lately who promise the moon and deliver moon dust. On a recent listing, the buyer was r...
06/25/2011
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Pay it Forward - Hey Mam Can You Spare a Gallon? I was telling my business partner, Will, this week that I needed to do a "Pay it Forward" so I needed to put my thinking cap on. He said, relax, something will come up. I went to fill my car (Sugar) with gas yesterday when a polite young man pulle...
06/24/2011
My last vacation was April 15th through the 20th in 2010. Lately I have been getting, well maybe, a little grouchy. My business partner Will has been on more vacations than I care to mention since then and just came off of one a few weeks ago. He deserves to take vacations and get away from th...
06/22/2011
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We get to wear so many hats as Realtors. Each day I learn something new and gain experience about issues I never thought would involve me. I never thought I would be fighting City Hall for a client, but today took Will and I down that bumpy road. We have been working so hard to help some clients...
06/21/2011
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Last week, Will and I went on a listing appointment with some very nice folks who have a great home to sell. We went through their home and I made suggestions for showing their home. There were some things that needed to be removed from rooms, and rearranging that needed to be done. Their home ...
06/21/2011
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Our job as Realtors, is nothing if not interesting. Everyday something occurs that makes me sit back and shake my head. Will and I have been working with an elderly couple who seem to have broken the mold on interesting. They don't quite understand real estate protocol - or they choose to ignore...
06/19/2011
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