One of the pieces of advice that I always give new agents who are just starting out is to visit a local dollar store and buy an old fashion hand mirror. I told a new, younger agent this earlier this week and his immediate reaction was, “Why is my hair messed up or do I have something on my face?”
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02/27/2013
“Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, ‘He is so big. We can never kill him.’ David looked at the same giant and thought, ‘He is so big. I can't miss.’" (Russ Johnston) – from the Jack’s Winning Words blog. I get the opportunity to h
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02/24/2013
Norman, W Werner 248-763-2497 Michigan Monthly Market Report - February 2013 January started at full speed. The activity level matched the spring markets of 2010 and 2011. The result, of course, is an even tighter listing market, since homes are selling faster than new ones are coming on t
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02/22/2013
“If everything’s a carnival, there’s no carnival left.” (Victor Hugo), from the Jack’s Winning Words blog. In Jack’s post he explains that Hugo was using the word carnival within the context of the times, which referred to the heavy and often decadent celebrations right before Lent – sort of like
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02/20/2013
On February 27th the Strong Kids Campaign Kickoff Breakfast is taking place at 7:30 am at the Carls Family YMCA. The guest speaker at this year’s kickoff breakfast is former Detroit Lions quarterback Eric Hipple. This annual breakfast kicks of the fund-raising campaign for the program that the
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02/18/2013
Long before Tony Robbins began his career as a motivational speaker/coach with his methods of achieving your goals and well before Rhonda Byrne wrote The Secret, George Bernard Shaw said, “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last
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02/17/2013
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw. Shaw was prescient and right on the mark as it applies to modern “communications”, especially email and texting. We seem to harbor the illusion that typing something out in an email or t
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02/12/2013
The chart below is one of four that you can see that show the area markets activity over the last five years. The sales are split out into $100K bands, so that you can see how each market segment has reacted to the recession and recovery. If you want to view the chart full size, click here. The
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02/11/2013
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw I saw that quote from Shaw on a cute little wooden sign in one of those Country Knick-Knack shops that my wife and I visit occasionally. How often have you heard someone say that they’re trying to find
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02/10/2013
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” (J.K. Rowling) from the Jack’s Winning Words blog. I might add to Rowling’s saying by adding “and wasteful when writes youth off.” Last night my wife and I went to the annual Taste of the Valley fund raiser for the Huron Valley Youth
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02/08/2013
