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"Real Estate Tech Review:"  Laser Distance Measurer   What Is the Real Estate Tech Review? OK.  I'll admit it.  I'm a gadget geek.  I'm also an engineer by education, an improviser by background, and tinkerer by genes.  Can you imagine how difficult it is, with that background, to commit the act ...

How to Track Google as They Track You   Have Google Tell You As Soon as They Start Reporting Something New About You Our clients, our prospective clients, and even people out there in the public who are just curious are constantly checking on us by using Google searches.  Often, they can find som...

People and Animals of Southern Black Hills Face High Wildfire Risk for 2013   State Fire Meteorologist Forecast Yesterday South Dakota's State Fire Meteorologist in Rapid City, Darren Clabo, declared the people and animals of the southern Black Hills face a "Well Above Average" risk this spring a...

Top ten grooming tips to sell your home   Two Things You Must Do to Beat Your Competition in the Housing Market The best ways to sell well are to: 1- Attract more buyers to come to your home to see it, and  2- Let your home sell itself so well that the buyers will worry someone else may buy it fi...

What is your favorite "digital staging" trick for taking killer glamor shots of your new listings?  Here are some of my favorites...   Artificial Lighting This has been one of my most successful enhancements.  Rather than close the interior doors on rooms on the far side of a room, place a diffus...

A 10-step plan for disposing of aging parents' possessions when selling their home   When Aging Parents Sell Their Home Many of us have been through this process with our aging parents or an elderly friend.  They  want to know how to sell their home and downsize or move to a senior-living communi...

Induction hearing loops are now available for Rapid City businesses, homes, churches, restaurants and public buildings     Rapid City Retailer Now Installing Induction Hearing Loops A few days ago we wrote about the "new" induction hearing loop technology that greatly improves the sound-environme...

Today's 58th High Plains Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Rapid City, Black Hills     Creativity, Science, and Public Speaking About 450 students in middle and high school came to Rapid City to display their projects and give a stand-up presentation of their findings to nearly 100 judges....

Now it's spring ... "Your hands should smell like dirt."   What Is the Vernal Equinox? According to The Old Farmer's Almanac the vernal equinox occurs at the end of winter when the short days have grown to equal the shrinking long nights, at 12 hours each.   Spring Planting Of course, spring is t...

So, you want to buy a home with horse property to start a small ranch or farm. "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."  Dwight D. Eisenhower Overview This article will give you some critical readings and references.   It is based to...