A Friday Night Rant, as folks know I sure don't usually write rant blog posts. But theres a leads service company calling me that just won't take No for an answer. Service Magic has called me many times now, the last call come today, they e-mail me at least 4 times a week.

But todays phone call I just could no belive what their so called salesmen said to me! they usual sart out by asken if you can use more business. This time I said I'm doing fine with the areas that use on the net, with geting business. So then he said so you have a website, told him yes, and that I belong to some blogging communitys.


And the main blogging community that I use is for Real Estate Professionals, so he goes off and asks, so you selle Real Estate. So I told him, no I do not. Then he comes back with, how can you say your a Real Estate Professional, when your just a Home Inspector. Thats sure was it for them. Do you think I'll ever do business with them?  You sure can bet your boots, that I 100% will not.

Did a bit of checken on them, and two complaint sites come up with all kinds of folks talking about the bad service they give. Complaints coming from both the public and business's that have signed up with them. One site had 8 pages and the other one had 12 pages.

Post 624 - 20 Nov. 2009

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, Here a little trick, that professional use. Install a curtain rod above your windows to help make them look taller, or use a extra long curtain rod if you'er wanting a window to look wider.

Folks find swag curtains are among the easiest for them to installed. Tie a large knot at the tip of the rod. Use a sheer fabric to filter the light and let the swag hang all the way down to the fioor for an elegant look for the room.

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, A tab top panel over a fancy roll type shade works well together. You can use any kind of curtain rod for tab top curtains.

A tailored Roman shade is functional as well as smart styling. As with curtains, to help make a window look larger than it really is, install the Roman shade on the outside of the window, overlapping the window on both ends. Its not good to use a Roman shade for windows larger than six feet as the weight of the shade makes it difficult to raise and lower it. Its best to use more than one shade instead.

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, A Roman shade with a coordinating valance for a layered effect. A good rule of thumb for a valance size is one-fourth to one-third the height of the window. You can even trim your valance with fringe or tassels for some added detail.  

Post 623 - 20 Nov. 2009

We all need to Help Protect Santa, soon Santa will be arriving at the local malls and stores in your area. Kids look forward to Christmas all year, so we need to be sure to only bring our kids to see Santa if they are in good health. We all need to help protect Santa from coming down with H1N1 Flu.

Can you just imagine, what it must be like to face hundreds or even thousand of kids with sniffling, and sneezing nose's siting on your lap and having them end up rubing their germy selves on you. The only thing at this time Santa will have for protecting himself, is a bottle of hand sanitizer, and hope that parents that have kids that are really sick, will keep their kids at home.


We all need to Help Protect Santa, Santa sure can't deliver toys to all the kids all over the world, if he ended up geting the H1N1 Flu now can he?

If you have ever seen The Year Without A Santa Claus, you sure should be able to say Amen to that!


Some Santas will be haven their elves screen the lines for kids who may be really sick.

You see Santa can not get vaccinated, unless Santa has a condition that puts him at risk to end up with complications from geting the H1N1 Flu, he is haven to wait until after Thanksgiving, to be vaccinated for the H1N1 Flu, just like everyone else has to right now.

 Please We all need to Help Protect Santa, and keep him healthy! 

Post 622 - 19 Nov. 2009

When You and Your Family are Going on a Trip, Saftey Tips, with the Holidays apon us, some folks might be planning on visiting relatives and or friends, for a day or two, and in some cases even longer. You sure don't want to come back home, to find it has been broken into. So before you and your family pack up the car or your trusty pack mule. Please be certain that your home is and will be protected. A bit of advanced preparation on your part, sure can help protect your little ole homestead while your gone.

Before leaven your home:

If your going to be away, for longer than a day or two:

Be sure to stop mail and newspaper deliveries, or ask a neighbor or friend to pick up your mail and newspaper daily.

Be sure not to leave empty garbage cans out in sight.

Ask a neighber to keep your yard maintained, maybe they would also be willing to park a car in your driveway.

Put some automatic timers on lights, your television, or radios. Use timers that changes what times the lights come on and goes off. By using lighting patterns that vary appear alot more natural.

Look all your windows and doors, including your basement and garage doors.

Leave your blinds or shades in the positions, you would usually have them. This will give your home a normal, folks are home look.

When You and Your Family are Going on a Trip, Safety Tips, be sure to tell a trusted neighbor when you and your family will be leaving, and when y'all will be returning date. Also supply your neighbor with phone numbers in case of an emergency and leave them a key to your home.

Let your local police department or if live out in the country, then let the Sheriff's department know, and ask either one of these departments, to periodically stop by to check your residence.

Be sure not to put a, your out of town message on your home answering machine, voicemail, or in your personal e-mail account.

If your home has a alarm system, let the alarm company konw you and your family are going to be gone, and ask them to perform routine maintenance on your home's alarm system prior to y'all leaving.    

Post 621 - 19 Nov. 2009

Okay Whats For Lunch, The next time you go out to have a picnic, you just might want to take along some kind of wild nuts and berries food with you. Beare are very curious, highly intelligent, and at times they can be potentially a dangerous animal.

Undue fear of bears sure can endanfer bears and folks a like. There are alot of bears killed every year, by folks just because they are afraid of bears and no other reason. If folks would just respect bears, and learn proper behavior when visiting the territory of bears, sure will help if they should encounter a bear on an outing, then neither of y'all will end up suffering needlessly from the experience. Most of the time bears will avoid folks. And if folks will give a bear the opportunity to do the right thing, they usual will.

Okay Whats For Lunch, bears are always looking for something to eat, they only have about six months to build up their fat reserves for their long winter hibernation. Don't let bears learn human foods or garbage can be a easy meal for them. Its illegal and foolish to feed bears,either on purpose or by going off and leaving food or garbage that will attract them.  

Post 620 - 18 Nov. 2009

First New Hampshire Real Estate Professional to Reach 400,000 on ActiveRain, this is truely the first real milestone that I have made it to, in the ActiveRain Real Estate Network community. Back when I first joined ActiveRain in 2007, I sure did not imagine that I'd be the very first New Hampshire member of the community to reach the 400,000 points milestone.

I actually reached this milestone last Tuesday 10 November 2009, but there were two other posts that I wanted to write and post before this one. Plus I was getting ready to go out opening day of Deer season, which was last Wednesday.

First New Hampshire Real Estate Professional to Reach 400,000 on ActiveRain, with this 400,000 milestone post I have wrote 619 blog posts now, have made 11,026 comments that count's that is. Seeing that I usual make more then 10 comments a day, I have received 5,342 comments, rank in New Hampshire #1 out of 907 members, rank in Sullivan County #1 out of 9 members, and rank in the town of Claremont, New Hampshire #1 out of 4 members.

One thing is for sure its not about the points. But about the many good friends that I sure have made in the ActiveRain Real Estate Network community, from all over the Country and in Canada. The personal rewards we receive sure dose out weighs the points. These personal rewards comes from the learning about search engine optimization, doing better with our online marketing, how to write even better content in our blog posts. All the members share unconditionally their tips and ideas with each other. You sure ain't going to meet more amazing and inspiring folks anywere, than the members in the ActiveRain community. And thats for sure!

These are just a few of the good friends, I have made here in the Rain.

First New Hampshire Real Estate Professional to Reach 400,000 on ActiveRain, Post 619 - 14 November 2009. Thank you kindly to all those that have helped me along the way, and all those that have supported my little ole Blogging Homestead here in the ActiveRain Real Estate Network community over the pass two years.

407,432 Points

This Post is Dedicated to a Fine Bellingham Wa Inspector, many of you know Steven L. Smith, the owner of King of the House Home Inspection. Not only has he wrote many fine Home Inspection, Localism blog posts for folks to read and learn about Home Inspections and his local area, Steven also writes a series of blog posts called Twin-Pick Music Trivia Quiz, for folks to have some fun.

This is Steven and his Certifried Assistant Nutsy, for those of you that don't know him.

At one time in Steven's life he was in the radio business, I know he wrote in a blog post what did in that line of work, I'm thinking he was a station manager. If you have not visited Steven's blog, be sure to. He a real good guy!

Ok new to get to just why This Post is Dedicated to a Fine Bellingham Wa Inspector, will you see, seeing that Steven has gave us so many music trivia quiz's to have fun answering, I thought that I'd do a music quiz Steven could join in to have fun answering also. Now this is not at all as good as the blog post Steven dose for his quizs.

Lets have some fun leaving answers to the quiz questions.

The Quiz:

Take My Breath Away, was a hit song from which 1980's movie?

Who sings the theme song for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale?

Erasure topped the U.S. dance charts with which 1987 song?

Which band had a 1966 hit with California Dreamin?

Folk singer Arlo Guthrie, best known for the 1967 Alice's Restaurant album, is the son of which legendary folk singer?

Which singer's twin brother was stillborn in East Tupelo, Mississippi, on the 8th of January 1935?

I'll do some more of these.

  Post 618 - 12 Nov. 2009 

Tomorrow 11 Nov. 2009 Should Not At All Be A Speechless Wednesday, usual here in the ActiveRain community, tomorrow is called Speechless Wednesday for some special blog posts. I would like to ask the members of ActiveRain, instead of writing a Speechless Wednesday blog post. Write a blog post that has to do Veterans Day. We could call our blog posts tomorrow Veterans Wednesday!

There are many subjects we can write about to Honor this day for our Veterans and the Men and Women that are servicing to protect our Freedom, and our Country.

Tomorrow 11 Nov. 2009 Should Not At All Be A Speechless Wednesday, why not write and blog post that has to do with a Veteran you know, or a someone you know that is serving now.

You could write a post, about why you love America, or why your proud to be an American.

I also would to ask that every American, tomorrow search out Veterans, and Service Men and Women, to thank them. How about taking a Veteran or Service Man or Woman out to lunch even.

Happy Veterans Day!!  and  God Bless America!! 

(A big Thank You to all my Brother's and Sister's In Arms)

Post 617 - 10 Nov. 2009 

Roof Inspection Series for First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners, the roof is arguably the single most important component of a home or commercial property building. The primary function of a roof is to keep the weather out of the inside of a building.

Your Inspector should be experienced and knowledgeble about the various types of roofs and the materials that are used in your given area of the Country.

Roof Inspection Series for First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners, roofs are composed of various surfaces materials that are used together in order to keep the weather out, that includes rain, sleet, snow, and wind from entering the building. The roof area is constructed with the structure, covers, flashing, gutters, and downspouts.

Various elements of the building may penetrate the roof and effect the functionality of the building's roof, these may include chimneys, flue pipes, vents, and even skylights.

Your Inspector should take into consideration the unique charactoristics of all these materials and componentes and understand just how they function together to keep the weather out.

Roof Inspection Series for First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners, your Inspector should do a visual inspection of the materials and installation of the primary roof covering. Many different types of roof covering materials are used all over the Country. Some of the most common types of roof materials used are. Ashpalt or Fiberglass Shingles, Asphalt Built Up Roof, Rolled Roofing, Cedar Shingles, Cement Fiber Shingles, Metal, Clay Tile, Slate, Plastic Shingles. All visible roof flashings should be inspected for signs of damage or decay. 

This will be a on going series, to help you to understand about roofs. 

Post 616 - 8 Nov. 2009

New Hampshire Deer Hunting Series Part One of Two, deer are New Hampshire's most popular game animal, Firearm's season starts this coming Wednesday 11 November 2009, with a total of around 80,000 deer in all areas of the State of New Hampshire. You can archery hunting started September 15, Muzzleloader season is going on now, and ends on Tuesday the 10th of November 2009.

On opening day of firearm's season, you can take either a buck or a doe. Opening day is the only day you can take a doe.

New Hampshire Deer Hunting Series Part One of Two, if you are using a special deer permit, you are not allowed to take two deer at the same time. Your first deer taken must be registered before you even attempt to take a second deer.

Please remember for your safty and the safty of others, that Alcoholic beverages or any other kind of mood altering drugs, has no business at all being in the woods, when hunting!

Opening day for next year's regular firearm's deer season will be the 10th of November 2010

Link to: New Hampshire Deer Hunting Series Part Two of Two

Post 615- 7 Nov. 2009