Several years ago my wife was shopping in Target, not her usual behavior since she hates shopping (I know, I'm a lucky guy). While she was there she saw two adorable jingle bell trees that she wanted, but it was uncharacteristically expensive for Target so I asked her to wait for the big one whol
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12/26/2014
Adapted from "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore: 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the RVA, not a creature was stirring, not even a flying squirrel. The stockings were hung by the gas chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The childr
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12/24/2014
The other day a friend of mine posted this on her Facebook feed. When something like this pops up I want to believe it, but there's always a little suspiciousness that casues me to hesitate so I did what any modern Sherlock Holmes would do and I went to the internet to check the facts and I came
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12/24/2014
A Buyer Calls From time to time people call me looking for the listing agent on a home. I think some people think if they are talking to the listing agent they will be able to get a better deal or that the listing agent may have some inside information on the home or even that it really doesn't
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12/17/2014
Once Upon a TimeThe other day I received an unsolicited call. The person on the other end called my cell phone identifying themselves as someone from Verizon. They asked for the owner of the account who was not available and then asked for my name to ensure I was an authorized user on the account
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12/09/2014
Today I spent some time helping out a colleague who was experincing strange behavior with her computer. And then I had to do many of the same things on my computer because it was acting wierd. These steps apply to both Windows and Mac OS X. Most of the things I do are simple steps even someone wi
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12/09/2014
I have submitted a ticket to Active Rain almost 24 hours ago and just now I received an update on my ticket. For now don't use the short URLs to share your Active Rain Blogs. All you get is a page that looks like this: It looks like there is something wrong with the DNS server entry (the various
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12/09/2014
The Richmond, Virginia housing market is very dynamic and localized. Often numbers for the region do not necessarily reflect numbers for areas of town or even specific neighborhoods. As I work on my specific Housing Market Reports for communities I'm focusing on here's where you can get general m
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12/08/2014
One thing I offer to prospective clients is a free consultation to discuss their real estate goals in an effort to find solutions for what they want to do. It's a great opportunity for people to talk with an RVA HomeProfessional before they commit to sell or buy a home. It takes some time, but it
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12/05/2014
Overall real estate agents have an image problem. Some of this comes from a few bad apples - yes there are some people in the profession I would prefer not to do business with because of the way they do business. While other sources are plain ignorance which sometimes comes from using informatio
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12/01/2014
