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2011
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In his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R Covey talks about habit number 7, Sharpen the Saw. Liking it to a Lumber Jack who refuses to sharpen the saw because it is taking him so long to cut through a tree and he doesn't have time to sharpen the saw. Training for REALTORS® is the...
02/27/2011
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There is a lot of advice on how to sell a home. Yet there are numerous ways that Sellers prevent the sale of their home. Four years ago I wrote a blog about how not to sell your. Here's a refreshed versions. Understanding what hurts the sale of a home will help in making a sale. Who cares about c...
02/26/2011
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When I first started in real estate a client told me that to survive I needed to take up golf. I did and fell in love with the sport. Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley, Vail and Green Valley have over 30 courses to choose from; and that's a conservative number. As I write the Accenture Match Play Champi...
02/22/2011
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The world around us is changing faster and faster every day. No more party lines, sharing the phone line with your neighbors. Today more and more people don't even have a home phone. Mobile phones have become the norm. Smart phones are replacing the old fashioned flip phone. "Old fashioned" has c...
02/17/2011
Health is an unforeseen benefit of home-ownership. Directly from the NAR Study... "Homeowners are happier and healthier than non-owners. But again, it would be incorrect to simply look at the correlation between home-ownership and health outcomes to draw conclusions since home-ownership is also c...
02/17/2011
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Douglas Trudeau
MBA, Assoc. Broker, Selling Tucson Real Estate