The thing with writing evergreen blog posts and IDX pages is you never know when they'll result in a contact, or if the contact is a good fit for our business.Saturday we received a call from someone asking about a HUD home. A HUD home located 100 miles from our home. And while I could provide
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05/06/2025
I've been known to put in some long hours over the years, keeping up with the essentials for each of the hats I wear.But even then, I had my limits. Sooner or later I had to shut down for the night and whatever didn't get done today would be on tomorrow's to do list.This morning in my Inbox was
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04/29/2025
Liz's laptop is old. In tech terms, REALLY old. An antique. And as long as you didn't have to reboot, it does the job. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S10. It's 4G, not 5G. I thinks Samsung is up to 25 or so in their model numbers, but I'm familiar with where all the settings are, it's got a gr
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04/22/2025
This week I'd finally reached the "enough" point with our cable provider. The bill just keeps going up and up, and the reality is almost everything we watch now isn't network TV, but on one of the streaming apps instead. If the Washington Caps have a game on ESPN+, I probably halfway watch the
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04/15/2025
It doesn't take long to realize ActiveRain is not like other real estate sites.Go into any number of real estate Facebook groups and ask a question. I double dog dare you. The chance of getting a meaningful response you can use? Not so great. The chance of 36 different people typing AYB (ask
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04/08/2025
Take a raw egg and it can become many things.While I can eat a hard boiled egg with some ground black pepper, it's more sustenance than enjoyable.Take that same egg and scramble or fry it, the ingredients are the same, but the taste is better.Take a hard boiled egg, pull out the yolk, add a few o
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04/01/2025
For this month's challenge Patricia Feager and Lew Corcoran asked us to tell about the impact of others on us.Years ago in my engineering life I had a Process Excellence qualification project involving a component that provided a primary function for a medical device. Our supplier was vertically
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03/28/2025
Over the years I've seen many people declare "Blogging is dead" or "Blogging doesn't work".And there is ALWAYS another bright and shiny out there isn't there? The next silver bullet that promises it will take any agent willing to fork out the $$ straight to the top of their MLS ranking!And it's
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03/25/2025
This week someone posted an article on LinkedIn about a project I worked on about 15 years ago in my capacity as a manufacturing engineer. The project was in Buffalo NY and involved frequent trips from Cincinnati to Buffalo. To put it mildly, the project was technologically challenging and a bi
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03/18/2025
"On the internet, no one knows if you're a dog."It's been almost 19 years since we first joined ActiveRain.Some members we know nothing about other than they write market reports, and more market reports, and more...and more...For those that use ActiveRain as a megaphone solely to broadcast real
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03/11/2025
