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2007 

Success in Real Estate is often proportional to your reputation as the expert in your community.  An integral part of your expertise flows from the team of affiliates you "partner" with on your transactions.  A key partner is your mortgage originator.  What should you look for and, more important...
01/21/2007
I was talking to a fellow athlete this morning after our workouts.  She commented on how different my training has been lately.  I told her I was in a building phase right now so I could endure more intensity later.  She said she never follows a detailed plan because it would take a lot of the fu...
01/16/2007
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In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, a dismal future is foreshadowed by the loss of individuality deemed imminent by the Industrial Revolution underway at the time.  Seventy years later and we are in the midst of another revolution, this one brought on by the computer age.  In the spirit of ...
01/15/2007
As a relative newbie to ActiveRain, I am amazed, excited and overwhelmed by the amount of information available to me.  When I was younger I was told that getting an education at Princeton was like getting a drink of water from a fire hydrant.  I felt the truth of that statement then and I am fee...
01/14/2007
My apologies to Mark Twain.  There has been a lot of comment today about the dreadful numbers that come out with each affordability index report and I would like to take the opportunity to play devil's advocate.  Sometimes, when I look at a new report or statistical anylysis, I run the report's c...
01/11/2007
Earlier, Bob Prevelige posted a question on hiring new LOs.  I am throwing in my 2 cents worth as a lender.  I assume that the main issues hold true for Real Estate offices as well.  I am curious as to other experiences in lender or Real Estate offices.Bob, you are facing a tough situation on a n...
01/07/2007
Brian Brady wrote a great blog this morning about his father and how Brian is still learning from him.  I know Brian personally and his father did a helluva job.Reading it I couldn't help but think about the way learning comes full circle.  As much as I have learned from my father, I find myself ...
01/06/2007
In my position as liability coach, I meet with a great many Real Estate agents as well as clients.  Because of this I am privileged to hear a broad spectrum of opinions and perceptions on the housing market.  Lately the topic of conversation has been the short sale.  I have listened to seasoned v...
01/06/2007
We have all read the headlines predicting doom and gloom. We have all encountered clients that are holding off on their largest (and safest) investment due to the fears these headlines create. Wouldn't it be nice if the people who wrote the headlines understood even a little economics? Copy write...
01/06/2007
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