Pat Hallesy's Blog

Every once in a while we all get reminded just how small the world can get.  Here's a few of mine:1.  While serving as a voter registrar on a ship off Central America, I ran across someone who had graduated from my high school - just 9 years later.2.  Two of the guys on the ship were born the sam...

So, I managed to convince my newest sellers to move a few pieces of furniture into the investment property they want to sell and I schedule a Saturday and Sunday open house.  From ActiveRain comes a contact who wants to list a home for rent.  This contact only has time available on Saturday - one...

We originally chose the Scion xB that I drive because of the gas mileage (usually about 30 mpg - I even got 35 mpg once).  As I looked at it, i realized how great a billboard it is.  I'd seen a few others around town with just a company name and phone number on them.  I just knew that having 'jus...

When we decided to move from our Office office to our Home office, we knew we needed more than just our conventional landline home phone or our cell phones (service isn't always the best due to our location). However, we do have high speed internet which allows us to use Voice Over Internet Proto...

Just got through doing a 2-day Rick Barnes listing seminar.  He's a very high energy guy who happens to be entertaining as well.  As with all seminars, workshops, etc., you have to decide which pieces of the puzzle to embrace and make your own.  If you try to do everything suggested all at once, ...

As an update to the previous post, I am now on hold with the previous Web host - trying to return a call to a customer support supervisor.  Mind you, I'm trying to return a call that was made to me less than 5 minutes ago - tick tock tick tock.No, I don't want to leave a message.  I want to talk ...

Two or three years ago I ran across a site for inexpensive cell phone accessories.  I think that I might have found it throug Google, but I honestly can't remember.  The name of the site is www.Cellphoneshop.net.  I was a bit hesitant to buy from them at first - the prices are that good!  You kno...

All of us have had a rude awakening with regards to expenses after we entered the real estate business.  Dues here, fees there, and to add insult to injury, all sorts of software and hardware that we 'need' to conduct business.  I have found some alternatives that may help.If you know how to burn...

What a week!  For the second time in a month, my Web host crashed our site.  The first time, both our site and email were down for two days.  The second time, it was just our email that went AWOL for a day.  When things like this happen on a weekend, nobody seems to be available to fix things.  F...