If you've been in real estate for more than a day, you'll find common elements with every other agent:1. Time just might be your most valuable (and scarcest) commodity2. There's always someone with a bright shiny promising to save you time and send avalanches of new clients your way3. You'll n
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08/27/2024
This last week as been a double whammy of changes in my life, a significant change to each aspect of my dual career life.Of course we all know about the changes that kicked in for agent compensation over the weekend, so that was the big change in my real estate life. Change happens in this profe
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08/20/2024
Earlier this week I was batting around blog post ideas and titles with a Rain friend, and for the same topic we would come up with entirely different post titles. His titles tended to be the more eye catching, but his style of blogging is entirely different than mine. Most of my posts wouldn't b
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08/13/2024
I made a commitment quite a few years ago to one of our ActiveRain friends to write an Ask An Ambassador post on Tuesdays. You may not see me blog about anything else, but every Tuesday I'll be here.Each week I'm looking for a post topic.Some weeks it's easy. There's an obvious issue in the Rai
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08/06/2024
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
