Real Estate LESSONS from LISA ORME

Welcome to my Priority One series of blog entries.  Each week on Active Rain I start my week with a post about the Christian walk, or something from the Word of God that has been encouragement to me. I am late with my post this week as I like to post my blog entries late Saturday night so you can...

Fall is indeed a season of change - we see that oh so clearly in Connecticut as we enjoy the myriad of colors in the changing leaves of autumn, and the cooler temperatures which require us to change our wardrobes from sleeveless tops and sandals, to sleeved blouses and open toed shoes, and eventu...

Yesterday, I got a call from my husband.  Any chance I could give him a jump start?  When your battery gets low, sometimes there's just not enough juice left to get the engine running. That's when it needs an infusion of energy from another source. It needs a jump start!  So I asked him where he ...

They've had a wonderful summer in the great outdoors, fun in the sun, and they're looking all the better for that time not being cooped up in the garden window, but having room to spread their leaves a bit. But it's forecasting to get down around 35 degrees tonight, so my my blog is little bit s...

Welcome to my Priority One series of blog entries.  Each week on Active Rain I start my week on Sunday with a post about the Christian walk, or something from the Word of God that has been encouragement to me. For some time now, I have been dealing with delays. Big delays. Repeated delays. Things...

Today was a rare treasure of a day!  Normally Saturdays are a frenzy of housecleaning and yard work. In addition to my irregular real estate work schedule, my husband and daughter are both working in retail establishments. My "second daughter" who lives with us works at a local banquet facility, ...

As real estate agents, there are so many different things each day to put our time and energy to. Some are trivial, some important, and some urgent; some we enjoy, others, not so much.  Often we have the luxury of customizing our business to spend most of our time doing the things we like to do m...

I've been VERY busy this past week. I am looking around my office and it looks like a paperwork explosion and I've got files all over my desk and my work table. But truth be told, some of the other areas of my office were starting to look a little cluttered too, because in my focus on getting stu...

Sometimes I struggle with procrastinating a little, but this time I got an EARLY start. I started Karen Bernetti's 30 Blogs in 30 Days Blog Challenge in the beginning of August. I made a commitment to join her on her Journey to Become a Better Blogger and, along with Karen and several other consc...

Mr. & Mrs. For-Sale-By-Owner, I applaud you in your desire to take on the job of selling your home yourself. Especially in the current economy. You are in the company of large numbers of people who have gone before you in the attempt to "SAVE" the money that you would otherwise pay to a real esta...