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I have been pouring over posts for the last hour and there is one kind of post that just confuses the heck out of me. It's the infamous market report post. I have seen some fantastic market reports posted on ActiveRain in the last few years. There are a handful of people that I will actually stop and read a market report if they post it and I come across it. However, most of them fall into the 'very mundane' (common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative) category.
Just a quick post to all the blog-o-holics here in Active Rain!
As a confirmed foodie, dining out and find new places to enjoy is a favorite pastime.
You've heard the expression I'm sure, 'There are many ways to skin a cat'... 
SO THE MARKET IS SLOW AND SALES ARE HARDER TO COME BUY. SO WHAT? 
I must admit, I am having trouble keeping up with the Growthleader leads.
Today at a brokers' open house, I ran into an agent with whom I had a rather strange transaction several years ago. As we reminisced, she mentioned her seller totally ticked her off because she listed his place for a very, very low fee. Then he went out and blabbed to her entire center of influence (like me, her clients all know one another), and all of them wanted the same deal either for themselves or for their friends they sent her as referrals.
Today, my daughter and I took a 2-1/2 hour drive east from Saint John to Moncton, New Brunswick. We were both VERY EXCITED!!! We both took the time to go see our former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton speak in Moncton. The former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna (now a hot shot for TD Financial Bank) introduced my former president to 6,000 people by the time the Moncton Coliseum was full.
As many of us blog about our local markets, it occurs to me that many of us have also stepped away from the tether of the brokerage office and are more out in the field providing fresh new information and perspective about our local markets. As our markets recover would we also will be better served by also changing the business models of the brokerage.
How important is it for anyone to contact you?
This story is fresh from this week - no need to search my mental Rolodex for lessons in this case. 
As a young girl I loved baseball..as a matter of fact..I wore a Phillies baseball cap and watched the game with my biological father..When Ritchie Allen was up to bat.. I would jump up and cross my fingers, stand by the t.v. and repeat over and over again..."Ritchie Allen hit a home run!" Sometimes it worked...and as a kid..it was magic..when he hit the ball over the fence..I did it...I wished it and I really believed that.
Several years ago I was working and i got a phone call from a guy who worked for a company who wanted to give me leads in exchange for a referral fee. I asked him what the catch was and he said there was no catch just call the leads set them up on a MLS search and sell them a house when they are ready. Ok....so whats the catch?? He promised there was no catch. He sounded trusting (wink aaron wink wink) so I took a risk. The platform I managed these leads on was a small site called active … (4 comments)
Thanksgiving thoughts are traditionally very personal spiritually or family oriented. I certainly love and cherish my family and friends (and dog of course) although this year my thoughts seem to be much broader and maybe in some ways selfish. The airwaves (ok, and wires) contain quite enough bad news about the world and its new global economy, thank you very much. And yet, there seems to be more hope in the air than I have experienced in a long time. As the incoming administration forms, their popularity is on an increase, a trend we have not seen for quite some time. I am as proud … (0 comments)
What's your plan or do you have even one? We had a post over at HouseValues about the changes we'd like see in Market Leader, but those changes are really out of our control. What changes can you make that are in your control? Have you made your plan for 2009, yet? What would you do differently in 2009 that you didn't do 2008? My niche market in 2008 has been the internet. I wanted to beef up my websites and prepare for the buyers that come with a declining market. We still have a few more quarters of uncertainty to … (4 comments)
There is still time to share your Thanksgiving with members of our military who are far from home. You see at this time of year there are thousands of men and women who serve in our armed services who are hundreds of miles from home and only have what the military are able to dish up.
I am so jazzed about getting this little snippet of code to work, that I am posting it here, so I can find it easily the next time I need it.
Going to Grandma's in Florida?
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I am a big believer in the "shortest distance between 2 points"...even if the points are out there in the blogosphere where it appears that there is no hope of connecting them ! 
Think, "Are You Ready for Some FOOTBALL?!", and then sing "Are You Ready for Some SHOPPING?!?!?"
Yesterday 200+ luxury real estate agents received an appreciation gift from the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. The Institute gave ALL of their founding members (those who joined in 2003 and have stayed with them for the five years since) a free one year extension of their membership. They gave up over $50,000 in revenue to help these agents in generally tough times and to really say,Disclaimer: ActiveRain Corp. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them make an informed decision when buying or selling a house. ActiveRain Corp. takes no responsibility for the content in these profiles, that are written by the members of this community.
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