Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of obtaining my real estate license.As an engineer, I tend to be very pragmatic. I weigh the pros and cons, and make a decision, and adjust later if the decision turns out not to have been the best choice.Liz had been an agent for a couple of years on a team
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07/30/2024
Some industries seem to take a Baskin Robbins approach, the more variety the better!How many variations of checkout machines do you encounter on a weekly basis with slightly different key positions for the red X and the green O?In my house we have two washer/dryer set-ups (one for the humans, the
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07/23/2024
Need blogging ideas?There is plenty of low hanging fruit (topics) all around you, even when it may not be obvious. Just going about normal life and real estate activities are going to provide you ample blogging opportunities.In the last couple of months we've had a tree fall on our house (okay,
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07/16/2024
I haven't written a new patio home blog post in several years.Why not?It's not because I think blogging doesn't work.Instead, I have total faith that blogging CAN work, and CAN continue to work long after I've written my last post about patio homes.I did the work, and now I can sit back if I choo
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07/09/2024
Back in the late 1800s John Venn created a way to show relationships between data sets, and while we might not remember his first name, the term Venn diagram lives on with anyone who likes to analyze.Cliff Notes version, you can label data sets by a category or characteristic, and organize the da
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07/02/2024
Our home is a magnet for stray cats. We live on a dead end country road just off an interstate exit (can you say PERFECT for anyone wanting to dump unwanted cats??).We suspect there's a cat language road map that points them to our house as a great place to gain food, water and shelter. We maxe
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06/25/2024
Years back I used to do quite a bit of business travel, and one of the perks was getting to enjoy each locality's offerings: great seafood in New England, a beef on weck in Buffalo, fantastic views from Point Loma in San Diego, and the occasional ballgame. The games weren't business expenses, so
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06/18/2024
If you watched the movie Oppenheimer, the term critical mass won't be a stranger to you.critical mass: the minimum amount of fissible material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reactionOversimplification of the process:1. Develop a design2. Manufacture adequate material of the RIGHT type3. Co
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06/11/2024
It's peak lavender bloom season in our front flower bed and the pollinators are enjoying the feast! Our honeybees and bumblebees and other native bees are flitting from one blossom to another.I enjoy TRYING to take pictures of them with my cell phone. I say TRYING because with lavender blooms t
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06/04/2024
Our home is surrounded by woods, and with woods comes the need for periodic tree maintenance. Emerald ash borers have been lethal to area ash trees over the last couple of decades, and our woods are no exception. We had three trees that needed dropped, one was a threat to our bee yard, another
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05/28/2024
