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2009
Maybe it's just a bad dream, a horrible nightmare, or worse, another badly produced installment of 'Saw' or 'Friday the 13th'! But's it's the Halloween season on the spooky Kitsap Peninsula, and another one of my transactions has fallen prey to the "Curse of the VA Appraisal!"..... What began as ...
10/29/2009
Few things in life are better than watching your own kids participate in athletic competition. Especially when their team wins!.... Alright, I know, winning isn't everything,.... but it sure beats losing!.... For the past several years, our youngest son, Luke, has played football. He was involved...
10/26/2009
Perception Versus Reality I remember when I first began my career in real estate back in Lawrence, Kansas. (Rockchalk, Jayhawk, GO KU!) I was affiliated with Realty Executives/Hedges Real Estate, a franchise owned by Bryan and Laura Hedges, great friends and even better brokers. I had a wonderful...
10/23/2009
One of my fave bloggers, Matt Gosselin, author of the book "My Blue Goose," just posted an inspiring vlog on his blogsite, 'Blog of Geese' that talks about the tendency in our current market for agents to sit back and wait for things to change. In other words, become comfortable and complacent, w...
10/21/2009
My dear friend, Jeff Dowler, conveys some of the same sentiments many of us would agree with. ActiveRain was a life-changing dynamic in my RE business and served to foster hundreds of lifetime friendships....My first thought was that this BEFORE ActiveRain and NOW contest would be a snap. Ha!! On...
10/20/2009
How do you measure your success as a real estate professional? Annual gross income? Number of transactions? What kind of car you drive? For me, one of the benchmarks of success is the point in a transaction where I am no longer just my client's real estate agent, but I have become their 'Trust' a...
10/06/2009
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For all too long, Zillow has been unfairly accussed of being the Anti-Christ of Real Estate, primarily due to the criticisms associated with their Zestimates. In the same vein as our County Assessed Values, the Zestimate always offers a good starting point of discussion with my clients and potent...
10/01/2009