301 Normandy, sometime you have one of those special listings. This is one of them. This beautiful home is priced well below market and has all the bells and whistles. It is an executive home to be sure...but it could fit a large growing family and create an island for fun and relaxation for a
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07/27/2008
In case you didn't know Grand Rapids has a baseball team that won the 2007 championship. The park has lots of activities but is a family based fun spot. This shot only shows the entrance look at the photo below. This is a great facility and there is more.... They have a great score board, conces
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07/26/2008
I sing the praises of any formats that works and creates new business. Active Rain has created some very good leads for me from a variety of clients and other brokers as referrals. Recently I have had two leads that have materialized into very positive experiences. One was a referral by an Acti
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07/26/2008
In today's market of foreclosures and short sales buyers tend to want answers right now on the offers they have submitted. So what takes so long for the lender to respond? You can have several reasons why offers take so long before a lender will respond. The number one reason is the backlog of
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07/26/2008
Sellers may not think of the demographics of where they live but marketing a property depends on understanding the demographics. Anyway that is my theory, demographics is an integral part of the marketing strategy. The demographics leads you to buyers. Now did that get your attention? That is
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07/25/2008
Many of you have been following the inclusion of 100 year old post cards I found after the passing of my mother. These have been in the family and now I am the keeper for the next generations to enjoy. I thought with scanning you could enjoy them too and see what Grand Rapids looked like a hund
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07/19/2008
In going through some family possessions after the death of my mother we found these post cards. The printer and manufacturers are long since gone but the magic of what they captured is still with us. Here is what John Ball Park looked like in the early years. Here is a closer look with a slight
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07/19/2008
Here is Grand Central Station. This is hard to believe. I grew up as a youngster in Chicago. I lived on the near North Side as it was...more affectionately called Old Town. I was only a few blocks from the Lincoln Park zoo. As a kid I was able to see the largest gorilla in captivity at the t
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07/19/2008
I can not tell you how many gallons of gas agents are burning showing properties. I decided to see if we could reduce the number of showings with a video. We looked at a way to reduce the number of showings and this is not happening to all agents...but a larger percentage than ever are showing a
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07/19/2008
Paperwork can be one of those necessary evils...but remember the alternative of not doing the paperwork is no commission with a sale that falls through. Or is that the result? One of the things that makes me boil is having an agent on the other side of the transaction that does sloppy work. Miss
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07/18/2008
