Home warranties are something I believe in, and yet they are, after all, insurance companies (although usually kinder and gentler) and a 'middleperson'.
When you want NEED the repair done, done right the first time and done fast, being proactive and efficient on YOUR end will help you--or your client--significantly.
When requesting service:
Request service online. Most warranty companies have portals where the homeowner or agent can request service. USE THOSE BLANK FIELDS that ask for additional explanation! This is a lifesaver when you have a middle of the night plumbing leak or thermostat issue. First in the Q = first to dispatch.
THEN, call the warranty company's CSR and pay your service fee via CC or e-check. That too should expedite processing--and vendors who get paid fast get the work done fast. It's also great for them to not have to collect the service fee. Saves time all around.
Ask the warranty company for a LOCAL vendor as close in proximity to the property as possible, unless you have a reason not to. Keep in mind that the companies do not know which zip code is closest. My house is closer to a zip code in another state than 3 local ones.
Ask the warranaty company for the phone number of the vendor. They often have a 'back office' number that won't go to voice mail.
Call the vendor. They are faxed the service requests, usually via an office person who may or may not be a 'techie'. There's a good chance, even after the previous steps, that the information they got from the warranty company CSR is incomplete. Tell them a request is en route. And be PLEASANT!
Provide information to the vendor: the make, model, type of appliance if applicable, and tell them as clearly as possible what is wrong and what parts of the appliance appear affected. Repeat trips are often eliminated when the vendor can arrive with the correct replacement parts.
Give the vendor DETAILED directions to the property.
Give the vendor your cell number and/or e-mail address so they can give you an ETA and heads up. Murphy's Law WILL prevail and you will not want to miss each other!
You'll be amazed how easily things get done when you help servicepeople help you...
Feeling more stuffed like your Thanksgiving turkey? Tryptophan kicking in to make you L-A-Z-Y and S-L-E-E-P-Y? Here's a fun little quiz that will get your brain going again ... or turn it into mush, once and for all.
These are some interesting optical illusions a friend e-mailed to me. Be careful about looking at some of them if you've been hitting the happy juice, though, as they could make you just a LITTLE squeamish. I don't know why - I didn't create the things, I'm just passing them on!
Have fun!
How is this possible? No, really, you tell me! I have no idea.
Focus on the dot in the center while you move your head back and forth. Weird, huh?
Are the purple lines straight or curved?
Is it just me, or do you also see gray dots between the black squares on that white background?
What do you see? A word, a face, or both?
No, I swear it's not moving ... it's all the beer and turkey and pumpkin pie getting to you. Really, it's NOT animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous one will seem to move after you take your eyes away from it.
INSTUCTIONS: Relax and concentrate on the 4 small dots in the center of the image for 30 to 40 seconds. Look at a wall or any smooth single-colored surface near you. You will see a circle of light begin to develop. Blink your eyes a couple of times and you will see a figure emerging. What ... or who ... do you see??
Is the book open toward you, or away from you?
So how did you do? Did this freak you out? Make you crazy? Intrigue you? Maybe you need to go have another slice of pie ... and a nap.
On this date in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill officially establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving celebrations date back to the Pilgrims (who weren't called Pilgrims until much later) at the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. At that time, post-harvest holidays, a midweek church meeting was held featuring topical sermons and which became known as Lecture Day. In 1621, Plymouth Governor William Bradford invited local Indians to join them in a three-day festival in gratitude for the bountiful Fall harvest.
Thanksgiving spread throughout New England (which was not called New England at that time), becoming an annual celebration. In 1777, the Continental Congress declared the first national Thanksgiving following the Patriot victory at Saratoga. Twelve years later, President Washington proclaimed a November 26, a Tuesday, as a day of national thanksgiving. Further down the road, in 1863, President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to fall on the last Thursday of November, thereby beginning the modern holiday that we celebrate.
Lincoln's declaration was followed annually until 1939 when President Roosevelt departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last Thursday that year, as Thanksgiving Day. His purpose was to make the Christmas shopping season longer. It should be noted that President Roosevelt was a Democrat, and we all know that Democrats like to change things - LOL. It's a good thing he's not around today since Christmas goods went up at Costco on July 5 this year.
Considerable (Republican?) controversy surrounded the change, and some (Republican?) Americans refused to honor Roosevelt's declaration. Roosevelt repeated the proclamation in 1940, but on November 26, 1941, he signed into law a bill making the fourth Thursday in November a national holiday called Thanksgiving.
Other interesting facts about Thanksgiving and the turkey:
The largest pumpkin pie weighed 2,020 pounds and had a diameter of 12 feet. It was baked by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in Ohio on October 8, 2005, and included 900 pounds of pumpkin, 62 gallons of evaporated milk (if the milk is evaporated, what's left in the gallon jugs?), 1,860 eggs (that should help your cholesterol), 300 pounds of sugar (what a sugar rush that would be), 3.5 pounds of salt (I don't think my doctor is liking this pie), 7 pounds of cinnamon, 2 pounds of pumpkin spice, and 250 pounds of crust (didn't some of those ingredients go into making the crust? So are we counting their weight twice?).
The first Thanksgiving Day football game to be broadcast live featured the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears at the University of Detroit Stadium in 1934. This is why the Detroit Lions play a home game every Thanksgiving, leaving one to wonder if the Chicago Bears play an away game every Thanksgiving. In 1956, the Detroit Lion's Thanksgiving Day game was televised for the first time; this is why we have to watch the Detroit Lions play every Thanksgiving Day, and that's not always good, like last year for example.
There is still a myth that the Bald Eagle beat out the turkey as national bird for the United States. The turkey was never in the running, never even considered. The confusion stems from a letter written by Benjamin Franklin to his daughter in 1784: "For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
"With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country....
"I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."
Franklin's letter a criticism of the Society of the Cincinnati which he opposed because be believed it to be a noble order because of its hereditary membership. Noble orders in England and Europe, of course, were part of what the Pilgrims were attempting to escape. Franklin's reference to the Eagle and Turkey is a satirical comparison of the Society of the Cincinnati and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus for whom the Society was named. Franklin viewed the creation of the Society as being contrary to the ideals of Cincinnatus.
Minnesota is the top turkey-producing state (only because we like our turkeys in California to be alive in the outdoors), followed by North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Missouri and Indiana.
One fifth of all turkeys eaten are eaten on Thanksgiving day. That's 46 million turkeys.
The average weight of cooked turkeys is 15 pounds.
88% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving day.
The cranberry (yuk!) is one of only three fruits that is entirely native to North America, the other two being the blueberry and the Concord grape.
The most prized portion of the turkey is the white meat of the breast. Because Americans like white meat so much, turkeys are bred to produce large breasts. Hmmmm. I think it best that I just leave that one alone. ☺☺
Only the male turkey gobbles. Females are too polite to, so they just click and cluck.
Turkey is not a popular name for cities. There are only three in the United States, and they are not well populated. Of course, they might have a lot of turkeys: Turkey, Texas (pop. 465); Turkey Creek, Louisiana (pop. 363); and Turkey, North Carolina (pop. 270).
In bowling, three consecutive strikes is called a turkey.
Domestic turkeys to be used for food have been bred to be, well, um, dumb, not knowing enough to come in out of the rain. If young turkeys still in down get wet, they can die from exposure.
Wild Turkey 101 for your eggnog comes from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in New York City in 1924 and featured animals from the Central Park Zoo. Today, some 3 million people attend the annual parade and another 44 million watch it on television.
Tony Sarg, a children's book illustrator and puppeteer, designed the first giant hot air balloons for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927, and later created the elaborate mechanically animated window displays that grace the New York store from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
And just for fun, do you know what character has appeared as a hot air balloon the most times in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, making his sixth appearance in 2006?
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Are YOU a Thanksgiving Turkey? How Well Do You Know the History of the Holiday (WITHOUT Cheating)?
Here's a little quiz to get you in the Thanksgiving spirit.
Now, here are the rules: It's multiple choice, so you have anywhere from a 1/2 to a 1/4 chance of getting the answer right, so NO CHEATING, OK?
The prize? The great feeling that comes from knowing just what a Thanksgiving Smartie Pants you really are. Not to mention that you'll have lots of great topics for conversation, should the Thanksgiving dinner talk for any reason find itself lacking (say it isn't so)!
Ready? Set? Go crazy!!!
PUMPKINS were first baked by early North American colonists by slicing off the top, removing the seeds, and filling the inside with ______________ and then burying the stuffed pumpkin in hot ashes.
Which President established Thanksgiving as a legal holiday, falling on the fourth Thursday in November?
(a) Abraham Lincoln (b) James Madison (c) Thomas Jefferson (d) Franklin Roosevelt
Cornucopia means:
(a) tall corn (b) Greek god of corn (c) horn of plenty (d) a traditional New England relish
True or false: The real Plymouth Rock is cracked?
Why is the male turkey often referred to as "Tom Turkey"?
(a) Because it's more PC than using the word "cock" for a male. (b) After Thomas Jefferson. (c) Because Indians lured turkeys into traps by pounding on tom-tom drums. (d) From an 18th century political cartoon.
Which President is believed to have begun the tradition in 1947 of pardoning a turkey and sending it to a public farm called Frying Pan Park in Herndon, Virginia?
(a) Andrew Jackson (b) Millard Fillmore (c) Harry Truman (d) Warren Harding
Which of these towns does not exist?
(a) Cornucopia, Wisconsin (b) Pumpkin Texas (c) Turkey Creek, Lousiana (d) Turkey Feather, New Mexico
NO CHEATING...
DON'T YOU EVEN THINK OF LOOKING UNTIL YOU'VE GIVEN IT YOUR BEST SHOT...
NO TURKEY FOR CHEATERS!
SANTA'S WATCHING YOU...
ANSWERS
C - milk, spices, and honey
A - beer (Yes, really!)
C - 3 days
B - Gimbel's (Macy's first parade was in 1924.)
D- Franklin Roosevelt (FDR signed a bill in Congress making Thanksgiving always the 4th Thursday. Lincoln had simply PROCLAIMED it the LAST Thursday, but sometimes there are 5 Thursdays in November.)
C- horn of plenty
True - It cracked in half during the Revolutionary War when being pried from its original location to be put on a pedestal.
B- Thomas Jefferson (Rumor has it that Ben Franklin was angry that Thomas Jefferson opposed his idea to install the turkey as our national bird, so he mockingly called the turkey "Tom Turkey" after Jefferson.)
C - Harry Truman
D- Turkey Feather, NM
So how'd you do??
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Arizona State House Overturns Anti-Deficiency Amendment: Big Win for Arizona Real Estate Investors
In July, Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer, signed into law a significant amendment to the state's anti-deficiency statutes that would, in effect, require all homeowners to live in the properties they own for at least six months prior to foreclosure, or risk penalties that include responsibility for the balance of the loan. Yesterday, the State House of Representatives passed SB 1004, an anti-deficiency fix, which repealed the amendment signed by Gov. Brewer and essentially returned the statute to its original status.
With a vote of 53-0, the House voted that Arizona should continue to operate as a deed of trust state with the same protections that have been in place since 1971. This is great news for Arizona real estate investors!
The bill passed both the Arizona State Senate and House of Representatives with an emergency clause and will go into effect upon Gov. Brewer's signature. The Arizona Association of REALTORS® will continue to work with the Arizona Bankers Association on language to address "speculative builders" in the upcoming session in order to resolve this issue entirely.
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Day in the Life of a Busy Broker: A Networking, Lunching, Teaching Whirlwind
This is not news - if you're in real estate, you've got a jam-packed schedule: Networking. Client meetings. Business development. Last Thursday was full of interesting back-to-back events, so I thought I'd share just a few details of the different meetings.
I started the day with a fantastic networking meeting with fellow ActiveRainer, Carra Riley, and her Scottsdale author pal, Marcia Fine. We chatted, got to know each other a bit, and brainstormed some ways we could all do business together. Carra has memorialized the meeting in her AR post, "A 3-Way in Phoenix."
Marcia Fine, Carra Riley, and Anna Banana
Next it was a Women's Council of REALTORS® luncheon, where national speaker Ellen Boyle gave a fantastic presentation called Learning the Secrets of Working Smarter and Earning $$ in Today's Market. It was a great turnout, and we all learned lots of new tips and ideas for making 2010 our best year yet.
Barb Rastello, speaker Ellen Boyle, Tausha Fournier, and Tricia Lehane pose for a quick picture
I ended the day teaching an ActiveRain class at Landscape Mart, which was hosted by Chicago Title. REALTORS® and experts from associated industries turned out to learn more about how to make the most of their memberships in ActiveRain.
It's always so much fun to teach new people the ins and outs of blogging, in general, and ActiveRain, in particular. In fact, I've had such a great time teaching these workshops that I created a whole series for ActiveRain newbies, to teach them much of what I cover in the workshop.
If I could boil my advice for ActiveRain newbies down to just three points, they would be:
Just do it!
Be consistent!
Have fun!
Anna Banana, wearing my ActiveRain Mentor hat
All in all, I'd say it was quite a productive day. Brainstorming fantastic ways to work with new friends to build all of our businesses, lunching with my fellow women REALTORS® and gaining some great tips for the new year, and sharing my passion for ActiveRain.
What's your typical day look like? I'll bet it's just as busy and productive!
Anna Banana
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It's TURKEY TUESDAY in Phoenix: Largest 1-Day Turkey Drive in the Country
Things are no doubt leaner this year for many folks as we strive to deal with this new economy, but it's especially challenging in Arizona where as many as 16.1% of the population now lives in poverty, versus the 13.2% national average. Understandably, food banks are seeing increased demand, due to rising unemployment and more first-time users. This is a perfect opportunity for the rest of us to pitch in to help make a difference.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 24, is the 16th annual 12 News Turkey Tuesday drive to collect frozen turkeys and monetary donations for St. Vincent de Paul. The event, which has become a Thanksgiving tradition for many Arizona families, is the nation's largest one-day turkey drive.
How to Donate
Drop off a monetary donation or frozen turkey on Tuesday, November 24 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. at any Bashas' or Food City Store in the Phoenix area or Northern Arizona.
Call 602-258-1212 to donate within Maricopa County or 1-888-838-5769 from all other locations.
All donations will benefit hungry families just in time for Thanksgiving. For St. Vincent de Paul, a local nonprofit, cooks and distributes more than 3,000 meals each day to the hungry, turkey donations are the key to meeting an increased demand this year.
During last year's Turkey Tuesday drive, Arizonans donated a record 26,432 frozen turkeys, which fed thousands of local, needy families. St. Vincent de Paul volunteers collected the frozen birds, and packaged them into food boxes which were immediately delivered to hungry families throughout Arizona.
In addition to the one-day drive, during the month of November, all Bashas' and Food City stores statewide will be selling $1 paper turkey icons to benefit St. Vincent de Paul. Customers can customize the turkey pictures by writing in what they are most thankful for this holiday season.
If you can't participate in the Turkey Tuesday drive, but still want to donate, visit the Arizona Food Banks website for a list of donation sites benefiting local food banks this holiday season.
And while it's perhaps too late to volunteer for Thanksgiving this year, you can make plans now to continue that giving spirit by signing up to volunteer with any of the agencies listed below for the Christmas season:
What better way to demonstrate this season of thanksgiving than by giving back? Wishing you and your families a festive, beautiful Thanksgiving holiday!
Anna Banana
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Perfecting Your ActiveRain Profile: A 6-Part Series for Newbies (Part 6)
Your ActiveRain profile is key. Do NOT overlook this step or "wait till later" to do it. The more thorough and detailed you make your profile, the better a prospective shopper who finds you on the Internet will know you and the more likely they'll want to work with you! Also - you get extra points for a really good profile!
Make sure you fill in the Description Box with the SEO friendly keywords that you'd like the search engines to find. This is the info that shows up on the screen that displays a blurb about you, before any new visitor is taken to your blog site.
Then give each profile section a name. Use things like:
Meet (YOUR NAME), Your (LOCATION) REALTOR®. This is where you talk about yourself, including relevant background details. But remember to keep it fairly short, and tied to Real Estate. If you remember how you got into the market in the first place, this is a great place to share that story.
The (YOUR LOCATION) Market. This is where you give all the details you can about your local market. Make yourself the expert, whether you're a builder, appraiser, or real estate lender. You've got to make your location appealing, first and foremost.
Testimonials about (YOUR NAME). Generally speaking, the more the better.
You can set up a very standard profile, or you can go a little more in depth with it. I created graphics to use as my headings so they're bigger, stand out more, and I can make them much more specific than the three preset headings you get.
In the PHOENIX MARKET section, we really developed it thoroughly and provided excellent information about the prominent areas in the Valley. We also used pictures as links to make the section more interesting.
If you haven't done it yet, build your profile! And if you just filled in the basics, see what you can do to make it more interesting and better reflect your brand! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! That's why we're all here, in this together ... to help and support each other on this fantastic journey!
Anna Banana
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Let's talk about your blogging efforts - and how you can use ActiveRain to increase your business.
Friday Funnies: Bird Flu ... ahem, H1N1 ... Hits Lawns Across America
Careful ... you Garden Gnomes may be next!
By the way, did you know you can spell the plural of flamingo - that lovely, pink, plastic, ubiquitous yard ornament of certain homeowners across our great country - two ways? Either FLAMINGOS or FLAMINGOES with the "e" is correct. Hunh. Who knew you could learn a vocab lesson while posting a Friday Funny?!
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Scottsdale, Ariz. Residential Real Estate Market Report - Oct 16 to Nov 16, 2009
These are active listings, pending sales with contingencies, pending sales, and houses that have closed.
Here is a typical home for sale in Scottsdale:
Asking price: $315,000 Subdivision: The Rocks Club Built: 2003 Size: 2,926 sq ft; 3 BR, 3 BA
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Lincoln's declaration was followed annually until 1939 when President Roosevelt departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last Thursday that year, as Thanksgiving Day. His purpose was to make the Christmas shopping season longer. It should be noted that President Roosevelt was a Democrat, and we all know that Democrats like to change things - LOL. It's a good thing he's not around today since Christmas goods went up at Costco on July 5 this year.
Considerable (Republican?) controversy surrounded the change, and some (Republican?) Americans refused to honor Roosevelt's declaration. Roosevelt repeated the proclamation in 1940, but on November 26, 1941, he signed into law a bill making the fourth Thursday in November a national holiday called Thanksgiving.
The largest pumpkin pie weighed 2,020 pounds and had a diameter of 12 feet. It was baked by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in Ohio on October 8, 2005, and included 900 pounds of pumpkin, 62 gallons of evaporated milk (if the milk is evaporated, what's left in the gallon jugs?), 1,860 eggs (that should help your cholesterol), 300 pounds of sugar (what a sugar rush that would be), 3.5 pounds of salt (I don't think my doctor is liking this pie), 7 pounds of cinnamon, 2 pounds of pumpkin spice, and 250 pounds of crust (didn't some of those ingredients go into making the crust? So are we counting their weight twice?).
The first Thanksgiving Day football game to be broadcast live featured the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears at the University of Detroit Stadium in 1934. This is why the Detroit Lions play a home game every Thanksgiving, leaving one to wonder if the Chicago Bears play an away game every Thanksgiving. In 1956, the Detroit Lion's Thanksgiving Day game was televised for the first time; this is why we have to watch the Detroit Lions play every Thanksgiving Day, and that's not always good, like last year for example.
There is still a myth that the Bald Eagle beat out the turkey as national bird for the United States. The turkey was never in the running, never even considered. The confusion stems from a letter written by Benjamin Franklin to his daughter in 1784: "For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
"I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."
In bowling, three consecutive strikes is called a turkey.
colonists by slicing off the top, removing the seeds, and filling the inside with ______________ and then burying the stuffed pumpkin in hot ashes.
least six months prior to foreclosure, or risk penalties that include responsibility for the balance of the loan. Yesterday, the State House of Representatives passed SB 1004, an anti-deficiency fix, which repealed the amendment signed by Gov. Brewer and essentially returned the statute to its original status.
especially challenging in Arizona where as many as 16.1% of the population now lives in poverty, versus the 13.2% national average. Understandably, food banks are seeing increased demand, due to rising unemployment and more first-time users. This is a perfect opportunity for the rest of us to pitch in to help make a difference.
thousands of local, needy families. St. Vincent de Paul volunteers collected the frozen birds, and packaged them into food boxes which were immediately delivered to hungry families throughout Arizona.
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