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2012 

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Photo-journalists were kept at a distance as this ultra secretive photo shoot began.   Why all the secrecy?  Well, in a middle-eastern country, like Israel, with it's ultra-orthodox and highly religious factions, taking photos of 1,000 naked Israeli's might turn into a bit of a, shall we say, hub...
01/31/2012
My first clue was a text message from my daughter, this morning saying: "Hi pops, it seems like you got a virus on your AOL email"... I asked if she'd been spammed, and sure enough she had... but from my account.  So I logged onto my account from my phone and there were "hundreds" of bounced-back...
01/29/2012
I heard a story today, that even if it turns out to be urban legend, was just so clever and cute, I had to share it. On one of their recent visits to Chicago, President Obama and his family visited one of the restaurants that they used to frequent when they still lived on the south side of Chicag...
01/28/2012
"We're 'all-in' at $425,000... we can't take any less than that for our house" was the comment that the sellers made (through their agent) to my client's market-value offer of $350,000. My clients have (with my help) thoroughly researched the market. And while we like your house, we recognize tha...
01/28/2012
My father was an avid cigar smoker. He really enjoyed a good cigar. For his birthday, one year, I decided to send him a box of his favourite cigars... Arturo Fuentes.  You don't realize quite how pricey a cigar is, until you've bought a box of twenty-four of them. But my father was worth it, so I...
01/27/2012
We aren't always lucky enough to obtain the most glorious listings.  Some of them are lovely, and others are shacks. I was glancing through some new listings that have come onto our MLS, this one is a rental, and, well, I'll let you decide. This is the image of the front of the building.  It's th...
01/26/2012
There's been a lively discussion going on at Jon Eliason's recent featured-post entitled "I answered my phone", where he takes great pride in pointing out that while sitting with two customers (note customers, not clients) and going through some properties on the computer, a couple of phone calls...
01/24/2012
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This morning we were greeted by a few of our own (Left to right: Mike Stern, Steve Molitor, Steven Sims and Greg Schneider) making omelettes made to order for a good start to Chinese new years. Gung Hai Fat Choy This is the year of the dragon.  People who are born in the year of the dragon share...
01/23/2012
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I just watched a program called "My First Home" on HGTV, where this adorable young couple decides they want to purchase a home without a Realtor.  They've found a house they want that's for sale FSBO, and the owner won't compensate a Realtor, so they feel the need to work without a Realtor.  Besi...
01/22/2012
I'm on track to sell $17,330,333.00 worth of property this year.  Which should bring in a pretty penny in commissions.  I should oughta be able to buy a new car this year, dontcha think? That's right, for those of you who are decimal-point-impaired, I said Seventeen million, three hundred and thi...
01/21/2012
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