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2010 

I was just reading an article about the new pitcher for the Yankees, Pat Venditte. He is an ambidextrous pitcher who throws both right and left handed! In fact, he has a special 6-fingered glove made for him so that he can use it on either hand. The subject matter is no new, that the Umpire's ass...
03/31/2010
So many times real estate transactions fall out after the physical inspection has been done. Many buyers get scared off if the home is not in perfect condition. It is VERY important that before the inspection you remind the buyers that it is the inspector's JOB to find things that are wrong with ...
03/28/2010
Well, I finally closed my personal account at Bank of America.  I replaced it with opening an account at Lockheed Federal Credit Union. But unfortunately Lockheed doesn't have business accounts. So I need some recommendations.  I was thinking about perhaps Chase bank. Let me know of some banks fo...
03/28/2010
I just signed up for SendOutCards.com this weekend. My rep Carol was very cool.  We met at one of our local Starbuck so that she could show me live online how the site works. I was so impressed.  They have over 1,500 cards to choose from and you can get your card send out with postage for about $...
03/28/2010
You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise? I'll post the answer in a few d...
03/28/2010
So many of my fellow agents have different pricing strategies. Some of them allow their clients to take the lead and then re-adjust later on if the price is to high.  I've known many agents to obtain a listing this way be becoming the "yes" person for the sellers, and then doing the reality check...
03/28/2010
I've had such great successes with my short sale listings over the last 2 years that I've had another agent hire me as a short sale mitigator. I've kept a database of all of min short sale negotiators from each bank and that has really boosted my communication capability. We just drew up the cont...
03/28/2010
This is my best bud, Scooter.  I got him about 4 years ago from the Burbank animal shelter.  Don't know why, buy something told me to go there one day, so I stopped by on my way home. I walked up and down the aisle looking at all the beautiful little beings (which of course breaks my heart), and ...
03/27/2010
I had eight new trees today planted in my yards. 7 in the back and one in the front. They are great trees for just about every region/climate. They are called Japanese Privets. They sort of resemble a Ficus, except the leaves are larger and thicker. And they are not sensitive like Ficus. Very nic...
03/26/2010
By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer – Wed Mar 24, 3:11 am ET Perhaps nothing crystallized President Barack Obama's determination to press forward on health-care legislation more than the 10 letters he reads each day from ordinary Americans. The letters became talismans for him: He carried the...
03/23/2010
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