First, a big "thank you" to the four people who responded to yesterday's blog. It is so validating to know that someone is reading my entries. And to clear up some confusion, my "back-stabbing incident" occurred in 1977 when I made the move to Changing Times Real Estate. I am happy to say that I
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07/11/2008
With summer I marked my first official year in the real estate industry and was enjoying its ups and downs. What I was not enjoying, however, was my current office. I had wonderful brokers who were like wise parents, but some things started to rub me the wrong way. I discovered by accident that a
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07/10/2008
The Spring of 1977 was in full swing---March went in like a lion and out like a lamb, and prices and interest rates were on the rise----I had just closed an escrow on one of my listings where the buyer had fallen in love with the hot pink carpeting---remember, this was the disco era!! I also had
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07/03/2008
January 1977 came in and with it my exit from Sears and the end of folding bras and girdles until 10PM on Saturday night. Disco Fever was high and so was the real estate market. My three escrows and my $800 profit sharing check from Sears brought me more money than I had ever seen in my life and
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06/26/2008
So my first buyer was in escrow and set to move before Christmas and we were ecstatic. Things from there started to get better, as two other listings that I had acquired went under contract within a week of that first sale. I was flying high and was planning my exit from the bra department at Sea
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06/25/2008
Bob Dylan's signature words from the early sixties are the best I can find to illustrate the radical shift in the real estate business. After 32 years of assisting buyers and sellers, I am astounded by the things I still do not know. The influence of the internet, the generational shift in our cl
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06/24/2008
