I didn't get a listing the other day and I was bummed...but then last night as I watched Olympian Lindsey Jacopellis miss her "shot at redemption" as some of the media called it, I realized, I'm sure glad I'm not an Olympian. (Set aside the fact that I have very little...okay, no...athletic abil
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02/17/2010
41 down 483 to go in my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010 First I have to admit that as I got online to write this but bubble deflated a bit when I read another recent blog talking about turning down listing #51 as it was too much to handle. My ten didn't 'look so good' any more. But th
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02/16/2010
40 down 484 to go on my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010 As a Realtor I am all about full disclosure...I always tell my sellers, disclose, disclose, disclose... In staging I believe in the mantra "When in doubt, take it out!", while in filling out the disclosure form I believe "When it d
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02/15/2010
39 down...485 to go on my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010 A major benefit of my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010 has been that I am opening my eyes to things around me, stopping to think about whether I want to do or go somewhere, vs living on auto pilot. Part of this whole re
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02/14/2010
38 down...486 to go on my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010 I am lucky, fortunate, blessed however you want to say it. to have six brothers and sisters that I love. But what is a bit more unusual as I am finding in later life, I have six brothers and sisters that I really, really like as
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02/14/2010
37 down 487 to go on my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010 I had a series of experiences yesterday that made me realize whether your 16 or 60 you have your view of what is "fair". People are quick to take things personally feeling a decision was specifically about them...and that they, pe
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02/13/2010
Technology wasn't cooperating today and I was getting VERY frustrated...I mean VERY frustrated. My computer was locking up, the fax machine wasn't feeding the pages right, etc etc. Then out of the blue I had a memory. Back when I was in my early twenties and at my first real 'career' position
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02/12/2010
In my commitment to write a blog every day this month (as an item on my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010) I sometimes just don't have anything interesting to write about. Hence today's blog. I have gone to many, many real estate workshops and all will tell you, delegate, delegate, dela
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02/11/2010
This is not a 'normal' Real Estate blog, no great business building ideas etc. Nope that's not what this year is about at all. I have spent the better part of the last 8 years learning about the real estate business, the technology, the city (I was new to the area), how to use the technology, f
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02/10/2010
36 down....488 to go on my Quest to have 524 new experiences in 2010 As it happens item number 36 is Real Estate related. I signed up for a monthly series of classes called Hays BOOT Camp. Not an exercise class, (though I really could use that right now), but a technology class. In this case B
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02/09/2010