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In 2000 when I turned 50, some friends gave me golf lessons for my birthday.  I think they were trying to tell me I was working way too hard and I needed to have more fun. They were right... So I decided to take golf lessons AND build a team.  After 23 years, I had a great business and the abili...

Back in July, I wrote a post called "10 Things to Do When There is Nothing to Do". I've been in the real estate business for 31 years.  I've been through 3 down markets.  It happens every 10-12 years here in New England.  I mentioned in July that I keep a drawer in my office for buyer ideas and ...

I remember reading Jeff Turner's first article on the Kodak V705, Sell Your Camera on Ebay and Buy This one.  It started a stampede to purchase the camera.  I bought one myself and have been highly recommending this peach of a camera to anyone who would listen.  I LOVE MY LITTLE CAMERA.  I even ...

 I bought my new flip video camera while at the NAR convention.  NO, they didn't sell them at the Expo.  I actually bought it on Amazon after seeing someone with one. I had to have it. It was in my office by the time I got home. It is small (about the same size as my Kodak V705) and cute (they ha...

Who says the pilgrims didn't serve beer?I really tried to do a nice sweet Thanksgiving post.  You know the one where I thank you all for being in my life this year. And how thankful I am to have found Active Rain. In fact, Carnac predicts that by the end of the day there will be 1145 of those sug...

Sweet Sarah did a blog post yesterday about hugging. In my comments I warned her not to let her kids try that in school because they could be sent home for sexual harassment. Unfortunately, in this world of political correctness, hugging can be a bad thing and there are too many stories in the ne...

I love Flickr.  I've been a member for a long time but it was only after Joe Zekas blogged about Flickr a few times that I became a real fan.  The last month or so I've been slowly working through my photos and organizing them into sets.  I have a long way to go but I'll get there soon enough.Fli...

  The last 30 days have been unprecedented. Carnac material has never been easier.  Only days after my last post, the proverbial poop hit the fan when it was discovered that rain gangs* were gaming the point system.  The post, Did you earn your points fairly, or did you find a loophole?  had it a...

I had a call about one of my listings today from an agent in Simsbury.  Simbury is about an hour away.  She wanted to know if motorized boats were allowed on the water at my Inchcliffe Drive listing in Gales Ferry. It was all I could do to keep from laughing.  The listing isn't on the water altho...

Each Friday our team runs our typical weekly 1/2 page ad in the local newspaper real estate insert. The cost is about $460. Several weeks ago, because I had a little extra space, I also featured a dog from the local animal shelter.  The results:  The shelter had 8 calls on the dog and we had 0 ca...