First of all let me say that I am glad that Sonya didn't write this post from a Denver, Colorado jail. On another serious note, in the daily course of doing our jobs, our tempers and temperances are tested on a regular basis. How you chose to handle it is up to you, but as for me, my first incl
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03/09/2013
Being a Birmingham AL Real Estate Investor is Like Being an Olympian Do you ever watch the Olympic games? If so, do you think for one minute that any participant in his/her respective sport is contemplating how s/he can do less than their best and still walk away with the gold? Olympians play to
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03/08/2013
It just seems that no matter what we do, we just can't win. I am mortified by what Jeff has detailed in this post. There is no end to frivolity and yet again, unsuspecting real estate agents are being made scapegoats. I guess absolute jaw dropping fact is that the real culprit escaped, reputati
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03/08/2013
Ask an Ambassador: Where Are the Buyers on Active Rain? On Wednesday, I posted "Hey Active Rain Newbies, We Got Your Back." Since then, a lot of really good questions have been emailed to me so I thought I'd share them with you for the benefit of Active Rain Newbies as well as the membership at
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03/07/2013
Home Sellers and The Semantics of a Cancelled vs Withdrawn Listing Real estate lingo is enough to make your head spin if you don't understand the foreign language for which we speak. Oftentimes when I see in the MLS that a listing has been "withdrawn" (no explanation is given), just withdrawn, I
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03/06/2013
Hey Active Rain Newbies, We Got Your Back Until such time that Active Rain creates a link directly to AR Ambassadors, it's necessary for us to continually write posts letting you Newbies know that we really are here for you. You see the badge below? In case you have been wondering about what it
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03/05/2013
Got a House to Sell? You Might Want to Get it on the Market Now. The real estate world is singing a new song and it’s called “Now is a great time to sell.” I know that for the past several years we’ve been singing a similar song to buyers called “Now is a great time to buy.” Well let me tell
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03/05/2013
Real estate is a business that requires thinking outside of the usual confines of marketing a property. Sometimes we just have to go with our gut even if others find it strange (which in some cases it may be). How far fetched do you think this idea is? What's Up with this? A Ten Minute Open Hou
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03/04/2013
160 Homes For Sell in Metro Birmingham for $15,000 or Less For real estate investors, those words are the equivalent of music to one's ears. I imagine that there are not many places around the country where you can buy a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house (in any condition) for less than $15,000. Now pleas
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03/04/2013
I think one of he best reasons to reblog is because many of us travel among several AR SOIs. And while there is no question that we'll catch a good post by one of our AR SOI's, it doesn't mean that the original writer is in all of the same circles and the person reblogging. Re-blogging is an un
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03/04/2013
