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 I started a series of simple staging tips on my Eastern CT Real Estate Blog.    I received permission by the author of "Dress Your House for Success" to use that title as long as I credited her.  I was blogging along and made it to TIP #7 and I am now officially STUCK.   I use the tips in my adv...

 In my ongoing study of what makes real estate professionals tick, and in honor of the start of the holiday shopping season, I continue on my quest of questions of the mind.  I recently discussed Morning People vs Late Nite people and found there was no constant among the Realtors®, mortgage offi...

 I  woke up this morning at 6AM just like always.  Not because of any Thanksgiving preparations, just because.  Because I always wake up at 6AM.  In fact, I'm usually in the office by 7:30.  I'm known as a "morning person".   I started thinking about this whole phenomenon at a closing yesterday. ...

 As sales fall, number of agents increase.The last 5 years have been an amazing time for real estate agents in Eastern CT.  As prices increased and homes sold quickly,  real estate schools became full of potential agents with visions of easy money and a lot of it.  This is a trend seen throughout...

 The Trade Show - Halloween for Realtors®If you noticed me missing after Day 4, it was because I ended up sick.  I rarely get sick so I'm calling it the New Orleans Flu. I spent Saturday Nite multi-tasking in the bathroom.  Returning home, I was thrilled to walk out of the Airport in Providence a...

Today I met AR member, Bill French from Real Estate Blog Sites.  Bill spoke at our Cyberprofessionals meeting.  He is one SMART guy.  And very funny too. If you ever have the opportunity to hear him speak, you'll learn a lot!  And laugh a lot!   We also met Tina Beam from Visistat .  It's a very ...

 Here come the Realtors®!!!!   I arrived on Tuesday and it was pretty quiet in the streets.   I was amazed at all the jewelry and antique shops in the French Quarter, one after another for blocks.  I couldn't imagine how many of them had managed to survive. Talk about competition!! Inventory was ...

                                     When I heard that NAR had chosen New Orleans as the site of the 2007 National Convention, I was disappointed.  I didn't think the city was going to be ready for 30,000 people and selfishly, I knew that finding a hotel for our Cyberprofessionals  group would be...

   I've arrived in New Orleans. This is my 4th trip here and I enjoy the city.   I was rather surprised at how run-down the airport looks although the cab driver did share they had plans to rebuild it prior to Katrina.  I met some other Cyberprofessionals at the airport and we headed to our NAR h...

    Let's Get Speedy.....    Here's a cool way to store AND SHARE your favorite blogs!  I'm not sure where I found this originally (hopefully it wasn't here and I'm stealing someone else's idea) but I was cleaning out my favorites and came across it!   I now am using it as my home page.  I'm in t...