Well, I usually don't put up two posts in a row with videos, but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year, with the help of this lovely song by ABBA, recorded as they were saying goodbye to the year 1989! Happy New Year! ******Susan NealRealtor/ BrokerCentury 21 Noel David Realty Full time re
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12/30/2010
A friend of mine emailed this video to me of Gladys Ingles repairing a plane in midair without a parachute - and she has to change planes to do it! Terrifying! Gladys Ingles was a member of a barnstorming troupe called the 13 Black Cats, in the 1920s. She was a wingwalker. In this film she shows
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12/30/2010
One question that arises now and then from potential sellers is about the amount ofcommission specified in the listing agreement. Here is a representative email on that issue: I am going to be listing my home for sale, but I don’t think it is fair to give a Realtor six percent or any such large s
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12/29/2010
One question I get frequently in the winter is typified by this email from a seller (this person wasn't yet my client at the time, but subsequently retained me after FSBOing didn't work for her):It is expected to be another weekend of heavy rain and wind and very cold weather. Friends have sugge
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12/26/2010
How to wrap a cat - I thought this was funny, but I don't think any of my cats would go for this!Have a wonderful Christmas!! ****** Full time real estate services in Fair Oaks CA, with friendly professionalism, 30+ years experience. I work hard to give my buyer or seller a low-stress transactio
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12/24/2010
I feel so bad for the store owners and managers at Westfield Galleria in Roseville! It is a beautiful mall with 240 stores, including many high-end boutiques, and many people from all over the Sacramento area head there for their Christmas shopping. Unfortunately it has been the scene of some r
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12/21/2010
My husband Jon and I were returning late yesterday from a weekend spent with his family, zipping along the freeway and I spotted this truck. Due to traffic conditions we never did get a chance to pull up alongside so that I could get a look at the driver, but from the looks of the clean pickup,
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12/20/2010
Today the Consumer Product Safety Commission outlawed the manufacture, sale and resale of drop-side cribs, after the deaths of more than 30 infants and toddlers in the past 10 years and millions of recalled cribs through the years.These are the cribs with one side rail that can be lowered to make
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12/15/2010
Some holiday shoppers who stopped for a bite to eat in the food court got a wonderful surprise. Merry Christmas!Wouldn't it be fun to be able to give people such a nice surprise? By the time Christmas finally arrives, so many people have become short-tempered and exhausted from all of the shoppin
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12/12/2010
Sally Cheeseman issued a challenge to active Rain members to write a post about a miracle this holiday season. I noticed some folks trying to decide what to write about, but I knew immediately what I consider to be the miracle in my life – one that continues as I write. In August 2009 my swee
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12/05/2010