Features I Found on Active Rain - 10/31/06 09:36 PM
When I was looking all over kingdom come for the orange RSS feed chicklet on Active Rain, it occurred to me that I have ignored a lot of available features. To me they are new. That doesn't mean they are new to ActiveRain, just that I've finally observed them! Since I'm notorious … (12 comments)
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The Shoe House - 10/31/06 08:49 PM
Now this is a marketing challenge! The picture is big, but it's the only way to get the full impact of what this St. Paul, Minnesota, house looked like when it went on the market in December, 1998. After 72 days it had not sold and went off the market. Every inch … (27 comments)
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Happy Halloween - 10/31/06 01:15 AM
Happy Halloween everyone. Teresa Boardman created a new Monster Mash song to submit to The Real Estate Tomato's Halloween Carnival of Blogs and asked me to help out an hour and a half before the deadline! No pressure there at all. I had to find the song somewhere because I couldn't … (9 comments)
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Daylight Saving Time - 10/28/06 12:49 PM
Today is the day that all good REALTORS get to sleep, work, play or frit away an extra hour. It's fall so you have to "fall back" by turning your clock back to 1:00 AM when it is 2:00 AM today's time. That just means we get to do 1:00 AM … (14 comments)
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Keep It Short so No Points - 10/26/06 03:09 PM
Posted October 26, 2006: If you have not yet entered Teresa Boardman's virtual pumpkin carving contest, the deadline is today! The more work she has to do on the entries, the less she can blog!
Edited October 27, 2006: Well, since Teresa passed me up anyway and I've gotten a bunch of … (12 comments)
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Agency Disclosure and Rental Property - 10/25/06 11:03 AM
Rental property is handled differently in different areas. I'm not totally familiar with the system outside of my locale, but rumor leads me to believe, other areas are very different. NYC for instance uses agents to advertise their rentals. In our area, property managers are supposed to be agents in order to … (3 comments)
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Property Management - 10/24/06 11:20 PM
It was suggested I post some pictues of before and after in the unit just vacated. Regrettably we had removed most of the personal possessions and cleaned the kitchen counters before I even though about pictures. These 3 are the only areas left to be cleaned. Everything else is well … (4 comments)
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Popcorn Texture Ceilings - 10/24/06 10:14 AM
A new hint for people who hate popcorn ceilings. I went to the hardware store and spent my hard earned cash on a can of spray popcorn texture patch. I read the can and figured I could do this. Went back to the apartment and saw that some schmoe had popcorn spray … (20 comments)
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Property Management is Not for Everyone - 10/23/06 05:37 PM
The faint of heart need not apply for investment property ownership. Occasionally my husband becomes the faint of heart. I just keep reminding him, that this is the way it is. Yesterday my honey and I regained possession of an apartment that had been occupied by a tenant for 16 years with … (8 comments)
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Wisconsin Representation Contract Question - 10/23/06 04:05 PM
This is a question for Wisconsin brokers/agents. Can someone please explain the difference between an exclusive right to sell and an exclusive agency agreement in a manner that makes sense to outsiders? This question is generated by the Inman News article "MLS changes tune on Web display of real estate listings" on … (3 comments)
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Courage . . . in Real Estate? - 10/21/06 10:51 AM
Friends and I have been discussing courage in our private lives lately, but I was totally floored this morning to find a blog entry on courage in the professional sphere. I hadn't thought about courage in a professional light, but it's key to our business and our ability to succeed. Courage … (4 comments)
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Halloween Fun - 10/19/06 11:53 PM
Has no one noticed the virtual pumpkin carving contest at Teresa Boardman's blog? Or is everyone waiting until the 11th hour to post their entries so no one copies? Oh, well, I have nothing better to do while Teresa sleeps so here's one of my entries for the pumpkin carving contest! … (6 comments)
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The Value of "No" - 10/19/06 10:03 PM
One of the hardest things for me to learn in the real estate business is how to say "no", how to set good boundaries, how to balance real estate and life. In talking with another agent today, one comment stuck out, "I would have fired that seller after the second offer was … (8 comments)
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Rehabbing Guidelines - 10/18/06 12:54 AM
Definition: Rehabber - one who takes a distressed house and makes it happy again.
I'm a rehabber. Anyone who has seen my business blog knows that I'm a serious rehabber. I live in one of those kind of houses. One that will someday be the house that I see in my mind. … (6 comments)
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Media Hype - 10/14/06 12:48 AM
We've all heard the distressing news about the real estate market and how sales are down, but what we haven't examined is that this kind of market is the perfect time for buyers to purchase! For some reason, the media has missed this and buyers are not buying. I've been analyzing … (8 comments)
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The Market Is in a Bind - 10/08/06 11:10 PM
The Minneapolis Saint Paul real estate market has slowed as much of the nation has. The median price is no longer increasing by a couple percental points, but has remained with a tiny increase of a few hundredths of a percent. Properties are flooding the market and buyers are not buying. … (6 comments)
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Legal Discrimination - 10/08/06 09:57 PM
Discrimination often conjures negative connotations in our society. We quickly jump to the negative definitiions: bias, favoritism, prejudice, unfairness, inequity, bigotry, and/or intolerance. We forget that discrimintion also has positive meanings: good taste, judgment, discernment, insight, acumen, perception, and/or refinement. Legal discrimination in property management means the tenant screener is using discernment, insight, … (2 comments)
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Property Management Is Really Tenant Management - 10/06/06 07:46 AM
Craig Schiller, this one's for you. I've got just a few minutes. I wonder if I can bang out a post in 14 minutes like the Sellsius 101 blogothon?
Property management is not property management. It's tenant management! Tenants are what make or break investors, not the maintenance issues on the property … (23 comments)
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