What a day! I survived Valentine's Day dinner that was made harder by my husband's insistence on perfection. (See earlier blog) I was up washing tablecloths and doing house-hold chores and the phone rang. I saw Dick Betts photo on my phone and thought he was calling on one of my blogs! Instea
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02/15/2008
Happy Valentine's Day This is just a fun story for Valentine's Day but a true story! It is about my husband and a new side of him. He has never been a romantic! The club that we attend decided to delay Valentine's until Saturday night and charge an enormous amount for the dinner. Well, our bud
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02/14/2008
As few as five years ago, we had almost no foreclosures in my area. If we had one sent to us to take care of it was a huge learning experience to figure out what to do. Last year I closed 19 foreclosures.I had another one assigned to me today. Now I know the procedure. Drive to it, see if it
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02/12/2008
While attending our continuing education and ethics training over the weekend I met this agent from a nearby town. She reminded me of our past relationship. Her city does not use the same lockboxes that our city uses. Thus if she wants to show any of our houses, we have to arrange to get her in
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02/11/2008
My state of Arkansas requires 6 hours of continuing education each year. We are also required to have a class on ethics every 4 years so I "killed two birds with one stone" today and attended a class that was sponsored by one of our banks in town. The bank provided the food, the instructor, and
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02/09/2008
I was reading another post where the agent was bemoaning the fact that she'd lost another deal because of a new agent's being a friend to a cousin or some such. I tried to comfort her with the following words.My observation has been that every time a new agent appears in our Board, I lose a few
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02/08/2008
I was reading through several blogs over the past few weeks and really get into some of those stories that you relay to us on ActiveRain. They are first hand, interesting, and pretty specific. I, however, live in a small town of 20,000 where lots of us know lots of people!If I tell you a first
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02/08/2008
We have several good inspectors on Active Rain and I'm probably asking their opinion on this beginning for general comments. The home inspector went to this house and his inspection is probably a good one but I have questions about whether this comment was a good one."The construction of the hou
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02/07/2008
Awards luncheon for RE/MAX offices was in Rogers AR and a van load of us was driving the 3.5 hours back home during all sorts of tornado warnings, heavy rain, thunder, lightning!! We got calls from home saying that we were traveling in between two big storms and for us not to drive too fast or w
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02/06/2008
My husband, the car dealer, told me that if I'm riding for hours in a van that I'd better grab a seat up front; he said the seat above the rear wheels will give you the roughest ride of your life. Well, he was right again. We had a group gather today for a combined 7 hour drive to Arkansas RE/
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02/05/2008
