From the Jack's Winning Words blog come this tidbit of wisdom - "I have failed many times, and that's why I'm a success." (Michael Jordan). Michael would be right at home starting a career as a Realtor®, since learning by failures seems to be the methodology of choice for training of new agents.
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06/20/2011
I finally have some good news to share about my little patch in the overall real estate market. Consistent with reports at the national level, distressed sales, as a percentage of overall sales in my market areas are down. In fact, for the first time this year I have more local markets below 50%
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06/19/2011
I'm feeling a bit like the boy who cried wolf from the children's story. In his case he started crying "Wolf" to attract the attention of the town's people, so that they would come running and he wouldn't be lonely. He was lonely and bored spending all of his time tending the sheep with nothing m
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06/15/2011
The recently released Clear Capital (www.clearcapital.com) monthly Home Data IndexTM (HDI) Market Report reported on the hottest real estate markets and the worst in the U.S. I guess I wasn't expecting the Detroit area to be in the first bracket, but I also wasn't thinking that we'd be the worst
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06/14/2011
I just returned from a short vacation over to the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Carolyn and I went there to visit the Norman Rockwell museum and to take in the other local attractions, of which there are many. The area of the Berkshires that we were in - Lee and the Stockbridges (East and West) an
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06/10/2011
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." (Jonathan Swift). This quote from one of my favorite blogs - Jack's Winning Words - got me to thinking that maybe marketing is like that sometimes, too; especially in real estate. Marketing a h
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06/09/2011
The recent Case-Schiller report on the national real estate market showed real evidence that the market has indeed entered a double dip- a second decline in home values, after a short "recovery" earlier in the year. Of course all real estate is local, so the national trend may not apply in your a
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06/06/2011
