Paddy Deighan Real Estate Blog

Valentine's day seems to ebb and flow in terms of popularity. I for one love the holiday. For one thing, it bridges the gap between New Years and ST PADDY'S day!!! Another thing is that it is fun and allows us to express creativity in the display of emotions and gratitude. BTW a colleague mention...

At the height of the arms race, the United States and Russia recognized that the doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was detrimental to both nations. MAD was such that in any conflagration, both countries as well as the rest of the world would likely be destroyed. Accordingly, it was ...

I must be bored!! I had a conversation with a colleague earlier today. During the conversation, he stated. '"there's no there, there".  This saying seem to be uttered daily to the point of sheer annoyance. So, I had to look into it.Believe it or not, Webster's Dictionary has an explanation.  The ...

I read today that Redfin expected the real estate market to be in decline for at least the remainder of 2023. Redfin cited high home prices and high mortgage rates for the concern.  The CEO of Redfin, Glenn Kelman further opined that the solution is:  "So what we need to do is just build more hou...

 mysterious investment company is buying up large tracts of land around a California Air Force base, raising questions about who is behind the firm — and its intentions — amid growing fears about Chinese businesses acquiring land near American military sites.The investment firm Flannery Associate...

You Know our Society is Doomed When.....the most popular aesthetic medical procedure is the Brazilian Butt Lift (and yes, it is actually called that).  A recent study of cosmetic surgery indicated that this procedure is the most frequently searched followed by tummy tuck (abdominoplasty), hair tr...

Seems that with increasing frequency (no reference to my earlier post on sound LOL) "automatic updates" are not automatic. Three iPhone 14+ Pro Max phones...all set to automatically update, yet only one of them ever does.Two Dell laptops...both set to automatically update. Yet when I check for up...

https://activerain.com/blogsview/5795967/july-2023-challenge---what-makes-you-exceptional-We all possess superpowers. The non July challenge is to discover what are superpowers are!!! Sure, we can ask others and this is helpful. However, we must self assess by viewing our personal and professiona...

Over the past many years, I have had to increasingly address a primary business concern: lack of direction and cohesion in a business direction.  With each passing year, there is a greater need to build a team that works together. Yet, businesses fail to realize that and worse, they believe they ...

Every day there are outrageous stories about a state or local government wanting to allow children to consent to gender transition treatments without parental consent....and government deciding that children belong to "all of us". My favorite is trans athletes competing in the class of their choi...