columbus ohio: Where in the US is... - 10/04/08 06:47 AM
Where in the US is Crossville TN, Wilmington DE, Juneau AK...
US Geography
How well do you know your way around the US? Do you use Google Maps a lot? Has ActiveRain made you more aware of geography? ActiveRain has made me aware of having a mental block on a few
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columbus ohio: Does Localism Make Me "look like a Pig?" - 08/19/08 06:29 AM
I think Localism is broke in my neck of the woods (Central Ohio.)
I have long considered asking for help with this in various posts about the New Localism but I thought maybe it would fix itself.
This post was inspired by New Localism ~ Open Letter to ActiveRain! (Members
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columbus ohio: Columbus Ohio - 07/17/08 04:39 PM
Columbus Ohio is the big city that no one expects. Columbus is the 15th largest city in the United States. Columbus is the largest city in Ohio and the state capital.
Columbus is unique for a city of it's size in that it is still growing, geographically and population wise.
Columbus is in
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columbus ohio: Red White & Boom - 07/01/08 12:05 AM
I go to Red, White & Boom most years… I have never taken my dog. I am surprised when I see dogs and babies at Red White & Boom… I don’t really know much about babies… but I would believe they would startle at loud noises. I know dogs do.
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columbus ohio: Columbus BEST Indonesian Restaurant - Taste of Bali - 06/29/08 11:05 AM
Ooops wrong blog... Does Columbus Ohio have more than one Indonesian Restaurant? I tried Taste of Bali on Saturday night, it is the first Indonesian Restaurant I have ever eaten at. It is definitely my favorite Indonesian restaurant... in or out of Central Ohio.
Authentic? You got me...
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columbus ohio: It's the economy, stupid... - 04/05/08 07:26 AM
I've never tried Thom's on Grandview and I would really hate to post anything about a struggling businss that would hurt the owner's and other employees any worse... I thought about not approving Sam's comment on Discover Columbus.
I feel sorry for both Rob and Sam... Rob's entire famly. I wonder how
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columbus ohio: Columbus Ohio Tops Forbes Tech City List - 03/13/08 06:31 AM
Ok it's an Up-And-Coming Tech Cities.... list... Silicon Valley has not been replaced by Columbus Ohio yet... Columbus has been on lists of emerging tech cities before of course... often with cities that must be there now whereas Columbus is still "up-and-coming."
The Forbes.com :Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech
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columbus ohio: The Blizzard of '08... spring forward - 03/09/08 12:32 AM
Time change Did you remember to set your clock ahead? Last night / this morning was the night to "Spring Forward" Of course spring is still twelve days away. Spring is just around the corner, robins, butterflies, daffodils... How many snows do we still have after the forsythia blooms? I reminded the
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columbus ohio: Columbus on Top 20 Cities List for Schools - 12/16/07 03:54 AM
From Forbes.com 'Where To Educate Your Child ' by David Savageau gives the list below which includes Columbus.
Slide show of the Top 20 Places Top to Educate Your Child
For more on education in Central Ohio and what Forbes.com had to say about schools in Columbus Ohio visit ColumbusBestBlog.com
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columbus ohio: Columbus Dispatch: Can Ohio's big cities be saved? - 12/09/07 03:31 PM
This morning's Columbus Dispatch was the final installment of an eight day series about the seven largest cities in Ohio.
Today's installment was about Columbus. From the beginning the series admitted Columbus was different than the other six big Ohio cities.
"Except for Columbus, Ohio's big cities have endured
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columbus ohio: "Can Ohio's big cities be saved?" - 12/03/07 09:18 AM
The seven biggest cities in the state of Ohio are dissected in an eight part special report in The Columbus Dispatch this week called "On the BRINK - Can Ohio's big cities be saved" written by Mark Niquette, Alan Johnson and Joe Hallett.
I wrote about the series on my other
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columbus ohio: Realtor.com Neighborhoods - 11/20/07 06:46 AM
Have you seen the new neighborhoods on Realtor.com ? What do you think of it? Nationally Realtor.com has 34 markets now where they have neighborhoods. How does Realtor.com look in your market? How is Realtor.com Neighborhoods the same or different than what ActiveRain intended Localism.com to be? Will you build neighborhoods for
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columbus ohio: Columbus Bloggers + WOSU + COSI = Social Media Cafe - 11/16/07 10:06 AM
What could happen if traditional media and new media... joined forces in Columbus Ohio? They've got the megaphone (s) .... WOSU TV local public TV WOSU Radio local public radio Columbus Ohio's got the inquiring minds... COSI Center of Science and Industry
WOSU and COSI have already joined forces... in the Digital
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columbus ohio: Columbus Ohio Nicknames... - 11/12/07 11:32 AM
Columbus Ohio has a number of nicknames. I have seen some nicknames for Columbus Ohio... some current, some historical which seem more like tag lines or slogans for Columbus Ohio than nicknames...
Examples:
Joe is short for Joseph
Tom is a nickname for Thomas
Mo is a nickname for Maureen... I guess not all nicknames that stick
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columbus ohio: What Columbus Ohio could learn from Zillow and Trulia in this web 2.0 world - 11/11/07 05:48 AM
Columbus wants to change it's name? According to a Dayton blog, the capital of Ohio, the biggest and best Columbus in the US wants to change it's name because of confusion with the other lesser cities in the US named Columbus. No offense meant to the other cities named Columbus.
In
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columbus ohio: Wine drinkers east or west of Columbus Ohio? - 11/01/07 04:38 AM
Wine drinkers are you east or west of Columbus Ohio?
It matters.
On Salon.com Andrew Leonard asked: "What is the greener option, in terms of carbon footprint, for a hypothetical wine-drinking citizen of Ohio: a California merlot from Napa county, a cheap Australian bottle of Yellow Tail shiraz, or a French bordeaux?"
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columbus ohio: Columbus Halloween Pet Costume Contest... the winner is - 10/27/07 02:43 PM
not my dog Buddy. Buddy does not like wearing costumes.
The winner Raul an English Bulldog won the Columbus Dispatch's 2007 Pet Costume Contest, dressed as Henry VIII complete with wives heads (they look like Barbie Doll heads to me. ) Raul's costume really is creative.
2007 Pet Costume
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columbus ohio: Happy Hallowiener 2007 - 10/26/07 09:13 AM
The picture is from one of those emails you get... I got this email with dogs dressed up for Halloween over a year ago. Lots of funny dog dressed up in cute costumes... thus the info about the dogs names and personal info about the dogs below the photo...
I think Wiener Dogs
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columbus ohio: If the California Cows Relocated to Columbus - 10/24/07 12:54 PM
I wrote "If the California Cows Relocated to Columbus" for ColumbusBestBlog.com, my other blog. I could not post the YouTube to my WordPress.org blog. I tried and tried but could not so I posted it to my third blog, Discover Columbus, a RealTown Blog. I am not going to give a
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columbus ohio: What do you consider Columbus Ohio? - 10/24/07 11:51 AM
A poll What do you consider Columbus Ohio?
When you hear Columbus Ohio do you think of the City of Columbus? The "Greater Columbus Area?" Or something else?
Geographically what is Columbus Ohio to you?
Is Pataskala Columbus? Columbus - Top Ten US Haunted HousesIs Polaris Columbus?* Polaris Mitchell’s
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columbus ohio: Halloween in Central Ohio - 10/18/07 07:37 AM
Halloween in Central Ohio... It's not just for kids!
Definitely not for children... Dead Acres is scary. Their website scares me.
Dead Acres is one of the Top Ten Haunted Houses in America
Terror Park at Cooper Stadium
If your tastes have matured from gore and horror to local history and Columbus architecture the 2007 Columbus Landmarks
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columbus ohio: Comment Spam From Your Own Company??? - 10/07/07 06:47 AM
What do you think of other real estate professionals in your market commenting on your blog? Good thing? Bad thing? Depends on how they do it?
What do you think of people within your own company commenting on your blog? This was on my other blog. The company I work for is called Real Living
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columbus ohio: Stable US Real Estate Markets Columbus IS on the List - 10/03/07 08:48 PM
Columbus made the Forbes.com latest 'Housing Trends" list!
America's Most Stable Housing Markets
I wrote about Columbus being third on the national list on ColumbusBestBlog.com
Who else made the list and what is the order? Look at the "In Pictures: America's Most Stable Real Estate Markets" on Forbes.com for why Moody's Economy.com and Forbes picked
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columbus ohio: Columbus, a Nice Place to Live & Visit!!! - 10/02/07 12:07 PM
In a twist on the phrase "a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there..." Columbus has occasionally been written of as a nice place to live but you would not want to visit here...
In September the New York Times wrote about Columbus in the Travel
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columbus ohio: Columbus Days 2007 “Come Play in our Backyard “ - 09/26/07 12:59 PM
"Come Play in our Backyard " for Columbus Days 2007. Columbus Day (not a national holiday) is celebrated on Monday October 8, 2007 this year, but Columbus Ohio celebrates Experience Columbus Days all weekend.
"Columbus Ohio" is just one of many cities in the United States named after Christopher Columbus. Columbus
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columbus ohio: Columbus "is cool" for kids - 09/22/07 05:05 AM
Columbus Ohio made a list of top cities for single adults, "How does your city rank for singles?"
Forbes.com says of the methodology and rankings of the US cities:
"We looked at 40 of the largest urbanized areas in the country and judged them on culture, nightlife, job growth, the cost of
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columbus ohio: How does your city rank for singles? - 09/21/07 07:07 AM
"Best Cities For Singles" is on Forbes.com It was published in August. I would not have even noticed the list if not for an article in "The Other Paper" about 24 year old Paul Hamm (an Olympic gymnast) being Columbus Most Eligible Bachelor. Wonder what the difference is between Paul Hamm and his twin brother Morgan?
Forbes.com says:
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columbus ohio: Columbus homes are made of "sugar and spice and everything nice" - 09/19/07 10:59 AM
Oh no... that's little girls are made of, of course...
and the stereotype is little boys are made of "snakes and snails and puppy dogs tails..."
Columbus homes are made of wood, brick, stone, vinyl, aluminum and sometimes "Other."
When I read a Google description of what Tucson Arizona homes are made of I see
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Market Report through August 2007 - 09/12/07 02:16 AM
The numbers on the graphs and the table below are for Franklin and Delaware Counties. The properties represented are single family and condominium homes in the two counties for the past 15 months, through the end of August 2007.
The light green bars are homes for sale. The dark green bars
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columbus ohio: Columbus Ohio's Best Home Inspector / Blogger? - 08/08/07 02:07 AM
Best? Well David Tamny just may be Columbus Ohio's only real home inspector / blogger. Not taking anything away from those Central Ohio home inspectors who blog on the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, but David wrote his first guest blog on ColumbusBestBlog.com recently AND he has his very own blog on his website.
Maybe other
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio 'Neighborhood Prices Slide' - 08/03/07 07:21 AM
An article about Columbus making PMI's list of one of the 10 Least Risky markets in the US caught my eye.
A Sunday July 29, 2007 Columbus Dispatch article entitled "Housing market seen as stable" subtitled "Central Ohio's history makes huge price drop unlikely, analysts say" said:
"Even so, all neighborhoods are
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columbus ohio: What is a neighborhood? - 08/01/07 07:33 AM
Where's Mr. Roger's when you need him? Of course Mr. Rogers died a few years ago, may he rest in peace.
Neighborhood from TheFreeDictionary.com
"neigh·bor·hood(nbr-hd)n.1. A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.2. The people who live near one another or in a
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columbus ohio: Westerville and Gahanna on Top 100 US Cities List - 07/27/07 06:37 AM
CNNMoney.com recently honored 100 Small Cities in the US as Top Cities:
"Best places to live Best Places to Live: Top 100
"For this year's list we focused on smaller places that offered the best combination of economic opportunity, good schools, safe streets, things to do and a real sense
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columbus ohio: BlogTour USA stop made the Worthington Paper - 07/19/07 09:17 PM
Last Friday's visit by Joe and Rudy of Sellsius° Real Estate Blog made our local Worthigton paper this week.
Blog Tour stops at HER Office
Rudy and Joe are pictured with Real Living HER office manager Tom Holcombe in the article in This Week Worthington, part of the This Week Community Newspapers which said.
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columbus ohio: Bert and Ernie's BlogTour USA - 07/09/07 10:05 AM
Have you looked at photos of the BlogTour USA guys?
It is sorta eery how much they resemble Bert and Ernie....isn't it?
Central Ohio bloggers (not just real estate bloggers... bloggers in general) the bus stops here in Worthington on Friday.
Who did the YouTube of Bert and
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columbus ohio: Columbus' Doo Dah Parade - 07/03/07 09:51 AM
It's not for everyone. It's not your normal 4th of July parade. More about the Doo Dah Parade on ColumbusBestBlog.com
1:00 July 4, 2007 Short North and Victorian Village neighborhoods.
Doo Dah Parade - These photos are from the era when Columbus voted to ban smoking... they could almost redo these entries this
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Census - 06/28/07 11:56 AM
Columbus is still the 15th largest US city according to recent estimates by the US Census Bureau. The Columbus Dispatch article about new population information was more locally focused than articles I read about the new information in most large newspapers and even newspapers in Ohio outside Central Ohio (Dayton Daily, Akron Beacon Journal) or maybe
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columbus ohio: I dreamed Columbus was climbing the charts.. - 06/28/07 11:30 AM
I dreamed Columbus was climbing the census charts...
I thought I heard on the news very early this morning that Columbus was now the 14th largest city in the US. Maybe I was more asleep than awake but I tried to find the info on the US Census Bureau site and via
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columbus ohio: "Columbus?" - 06/27/07 02:22 PM
"Columbus?" is the headline of a blog post from a Pittsburgh blogger. What does Columbus Ohio have in common with New York, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, Rome, Madrid, Toronto, Houston, Washington, Atlanta, Paris, Seattle, San Diego, Austin Texas, Minneapolis, Denver, San Francisco, Portland Oregon, Dallas, Singapore, St. Louis, Jakarta, Brooklyn NY, Philadelphia, Mexico
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columbus ohio: Real Living is an Inman Innovator Finalist Again - 06/25/07 07:22 PM
Real Living is a finalist in the Inman Innovators in the category of Most Innovative Brokerage or Franchise. The finalists were announced today Monday June 25, 2007. The winners (there are four other categories, 39 companies in total nominated) will be announced at the Inman News Real Estate Connect in August. Most
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columbus ohio: "thinking outside the circle" - 06/17/07 02:49 PM
Real Living's brand is a circle with the company name in. Real Living HER's brand is two circles. I personally have always thought of the circles as "polka dots" but my boss recently told me the Real Living brands are circles not polka dots. Real Living is expanding. The story of Real Living's
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columbus ohio: "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite ... " - 05/26/07 04:54 AM
Growing up my mother said "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite" to us at bedtime. I had no concept of what "sleep tight" meant but the part about bed bugs really concerned me. Bedbugs were virtually eradicated from the United Stats after World War II according to what I have read about them. I
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columbus ohio: cutting down on pie charts - 05/10/07 06:45 AM
I had a business cartoon on my Discover Columbus Blog recently, an "Andertoon" by Mark Anderson. In the Andertoon there's a business meeting going on, there are bar graphs being projected onto a screen in a power point presentation. The caption reads "Finally, to help those of us counting carbs we've moved to bar graphs instead
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columbus ohio: Columbus Ohio, it's a matter of style - 05/09/07 08:21 AM
I have cartoons on my Discover Columbus blog. Andertoons Business Cartoons and BLaugh. Why do I have cartoons on Discover Columbus? Because Columbus Ohio is kinda cartoony. Humorist James Thurber was born and raised in Columbus and went on to become well known writing and drawing cartoons for The New Yorker. Ohio State University has a Comics
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columbus ohio: Attention Columbus Home Inspectors - 05/08/07 07:07 AM
If blogs had windows.... If my two blogs, Discover Columbus and Columbus Best Blog each had a big plate glass front window there'd be a help wanted sign in the windows of both blogs. I am looking for a home inspector guest blogger to write ... about home inspection occasionally on one of my other
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio's Best Open House List - 05/06/07 03:51 AM
Real Living HER's open house list is the biggest and best list in Central Ohio. Today there are 391 (+/_ ) homes listed by Real Living agents open throughought Central Ohio on that list. Visting open houses can be a great way to start a home search. Attending open houses can be a good way
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columbus ohio: Happy Cinco de Mayo Central Ohio - 05/05/07 06:38 AM
I'd say "Happy Cinco de Mayo Columbus" but I like the sorta rhyme in "Happy Cinco de Mayo Central Ohio." Central Ohio's Channel 10's "Commit To Be Fit" website says: "Columbus was labeled the 5th fattest city in the United States in 2001, and that brought on a whole host of health concerns."
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columbus ohio: If you search you may Discover Columbus - 04/30/07 12:00 PM
Elaine Reese has written more than once about odd blog searches. I don't really pay that much attention to the searches that allow people to end up on my blogs. For just last week I looked at what people searched for on my Discover Columbus blog,,, food searches, lots of food searches..... Someone searched for "Las Margaritas Restaurante
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Hero on Extreme Makeover Home Edition - February 11, 2007 - 02/10/07 01:23 PM
The February 11, 2007 episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition is a Whitehall Ohio location! Columbus' own M/I Homes demolished and rebuilt a house for the family of former Marine Sergeant Jason L. Thomas. Whitehall is an eastside suburb of Columbus. From the local website: "WATCH THE SHOW SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2007" The local website has lots of great
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columbus ohio: Ten Best Cities to Sleep.... - 02/06/07 03:06 AM
Ines, Teresa, Craig Schiller, Brian Brady can sleep? Strangely I do run into Blogging Bonnie Erickson a lot in during the night... and what about those Codgers up at the crack of dawn? 1. Anaheim, CA2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA3. Raleigh-Durham, NC4. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 5. Chicago, IL 6. Pittsburgh, PA7. San Diego, CA8.
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columbus ohio: The Columbus Zoo - 02/02/07 03:59 PM
Did you know the Columbus Zoo has half price admission in January and February 2007? That's over half way over now! What do bulls, rabbits, groundhogs, bears and colts have to do with Discover Columbus? All those animals and more reside at the Columbus Zoo? The Columbus Zoo probably does have all
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columbus ohio: Minerva Park Real Estate - 5 Reasons to Buy in 2007 - 01/31/07 02:25 PM
Minerva Park is a village in Central Ohio. It is a suburb of Columbus, one of the early suburbs. Minerva Park is in northeast Franklin County. Beauty Winter, spring, summer or fall, Minerva Park is beautiful with it's mature trees, classic homes, lakes and ravines. The lakes in the village are for
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columbus ohio: Is your blog a real estate blog or a place blog? - 01/18/07 04:54 AM
Bloggers: If you have another blog is your blog a real estate blog or a place blog? Or both?
What's a place blog? What is the difference in a real estate blog and a place blog? Is every real estate blog with a name of a city a placeblog?
"-It's about the
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Market Report - December 2006 - 01/15/07 02:37 PM
Consumers: Please visit Discover Columbus for CURRENT Central Ohio Real Estate Market Reports - this is old news but for some reason there are still a lot of views. Although ActiveRain / Localism has a category for market reports a local ActiveRain member was highly opposed to my sharing this information. There
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columbus ohio: 50 Years Ago.... - 12/31/06 08:17 AM
A little bit of history. 1956.....Active Rainer Rich Jacobson was born we celebrated big on Active Rain...a Members Only entry, real estate professionals who are not members Join! Word has it Rich was born December 22, 1956 in Klamath Falls, Oregon.... 1956 Jessica Hughe's Lolita the Lammy was born in Italy (I covet that scooter!) 1956 Colo was born
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columbus ohio: 5 Reasons to Buy Columbus Real Estate in 2007 - 12/31/06 05:01 AM
At the end of 2006 interest rates are historically low across the country. That's good news to buyers everywhere. If you listen to the national news about buying now you may not get the whole story though. "Real estate is local" and the good news for Columbus and Central Ohio is that buying real
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columbus ohio: Clintonville Area Market Report - 12/15/06 04:03 AM
Th The numbers in the chart below are single family, townhouse and condominiums for sale and sold in the City of Columbus, Clintonville area. Clintonville is on the north side of Columbus. The graph and chart show market demand by comparing current inventory to number of homes sold in a 15-month period. The statistics are for
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Market Report - 12/14/06 04:24 PM
The graph above is all of Central Ohio, the whole area covered by the Columbus Board of REALTORS®. The Columbus Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service serves all of Franklin, Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow and Union counties and parts of Champagne, Clark, Licking, Fairfield, Knox, Logan, Marion and Pickaway counties. The properties represented here
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columbus ohio: Trulia Announces Advisory Board - 12/13/06 03:28 PM
Today Trulia real estate search announced an advisory board from the real estate industry. Trulia's New Release: "Through interactive heat maps, neighborhood guides and property listings in all 50 states, a consumer researching a home for sale on Trulia.com is easily connected to the property page of the real estate professional most
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columbus ohio: When do we start getting the "Hazard Pay" - 12/12/06 06:26 AM
A 74 year old man taking pictures of a house on the north side of Columbus "for a real estate company" was shot yesterday. Channel 4 News Story "Man, 74, Shot During Attempted Robbery, Three Men Interviewed, Released" I heard about it as breaking news at 6:00 yesterday (it happened at 1:30 PM.) I wanted
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columbus ohio: Top 25 Influential People in the Industry - 12/11/06 08:03 PM
Who does Realtor Magazine Online call the 25 most influential people in the real estate industry today? These 25 people are " Real Estate's 25 Most Influential Thought Leaders" according to Realtor Magazine Online: Mo AndersonPat Vredevoogd CombsVirginia CookHarold CryeAllan DaltonP. Wesley Foster Jr.Bob HaleMargaret M. KellySteve MorrisFrances Martinez MyersPamela J. O'ConnorAllen M. OkamotoSteve OzonianRonald J.
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columbus ohio: Real Living Now in 16 States - 11/30/06 01:35 AM
Real Living just announced its move into the Connecticut, Kansas and Virginia markets, increasing our presence to 16 states. We have a webcast on our Real Living Business Center home page (our intranet) about recent expansion which I watched earlier today. One of the "stars" of the webcast (video), Susan Eidler of Real
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columbus ohio: Mortgage Fraud tied to Terrorism? - 11/21/06 07:10 AM
How does that go...? 'sometimes truth is stranger than fiction." As a real estate agent what would you do? "This is how it works. Targeting new or newer homes in affluent suburbs that have languished on the real estate market for months, interested buyers offer to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars
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columbus ohio: "Nuts. Nuts, and lots of them" - 11/17/06 03:17 AM
Weekend events in Columbus include one very important to many football game. Poll who's going to win the game? The University of Michigan is warning their students about dangerous neighborhoods in Columbus. They are bringing their own police. Michigan bloggers have travel advisories about where to NOT venture in Columbus on Saturday along with various
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Inventory and Sales - It's a buyer's market! - 11/16/06 05:43 AM
Consumers: Please Visit Discover Columbus for CURRENT Central Ohio Real Estate Market Reports - this is old news but for some reason there are still a lot of people visiting. Although ActiveRain / Localism has a category for market reports a local ActiveRain member was highly opposed to my sharing this
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columbus ohio: Franklin County Inventory and Sales - It's a buyer's market! - 11/16/06 05:21 AM
Consumers: Please Visit Discover Columbus for CURRENT Central Ohio Real Estate Market Reports - this is old news but for some reason there are still a lot of people visiting. Although ActiveRain / Localism has a category for market reports a local ActiveRain member was highly opposed to my sharing this
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columbus ohio: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Central Ohio - 11/15/06 01:17 PM
Columbus Ohio's M/I Homes was selected by ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" to build a house for a Whitehall, Ohio family. Real Living has partnered with M/I Homes in this project as a sponsor. Real Living is hosting M/I Homes' new Web site that provides more information about the project including a day
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columbus ohio: Beat Michigan Week - 11/13/06 03:01 AM
It' beat Michigan Week in Columbus Ohio. I'm looking for some Buckeye football fans on Active Rain. Elaine Reese and Karen Villa Schweinfurth were doing OSU proud on Active Rain early in the season. Karen wrote: Do you know where your family is? Champions in the making A comment on Karen's blog about Saturday
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columbus ohio: Top 10 Riskiest Housing Markets - Fall 2006! - 11/12/06 05:46 AM
Now that I have your attention let me recommend a real estate blog I really like The Real Estate Bloggers. The Real Estate Bloggers has a list of the 10 Riskiest Housing Markets Fall 2006 on their blog. This list comes from the PMI Institute. The good news, Columbus is on the list
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columbus ohio: Location, location, location - 11/11/06 02:39 AM
"Big deals send up red flags" "Sales of 14 upscale homes at well-above-market prices raise suspicions of flipping" says an article in the Sunday, November 05, 2006 Columbus Dispatch written by Geoff Dutton. What kind of sale prices are we talking? What kind of differences... one home sold for list price... $0 difference
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columbus ohio: Vote - 11/07/06 05:38 AM
The Columbus Board of REALTORS® is voting online for the first time. If it said somewhere prviously that my friends at Internet Crusade are manning the virtual voting machines I missed it. The vote for CBR directors opened today at 12:01 A.M. Dear Maureen, Members of the Columbus Board of REALTORS® are encouraged to vote on-line for 2006
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columbus ohio: Real Living is so web 2.0 - 11/04/06 07:24 AM
Real Living has a blog. The blog has an entry yesterday that Real Living has an entry in Wikipedia...Wikipedia is so web 2.0 Wikipedia's Real Living encyclopedia entry Of course Coldwell Banker has an encyclopedia entry in Wikipedia but local Coldwell Banker King Thompson doesn't have a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry yet. Re/Max Intl has a
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columbus ohio: The Short North - Columbus Ohio - 11/02/06 01:02 PM
The Short North Columbus Ohio - Inman Stories - Real Living If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a video worth? A video about The Short North in Columbus Ohio, calls the neighborhood "downtown." While the neighborhood is urban, The Short North is not downtown, it is just north of downtown,
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columbus ohio: Columbus Ohio - 10/23/06 05:28 PM
Columbus Ohio is the big city that no one expects. Columbus is the 15th largest city in the United States. Columbus is the largest city in Ohio and the state capital. Columbus is unique for a city of it's size in that it is still growing, geographically and populationwise. Columbus is in Central Ohio at
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columbus ohio: The Best Open House List in Town, isn't real estate still local? - 10/11/06 12:41 AM
Active Rainer Carolyn Nelson of North Carolina wrote a nice blog entry about a Free Open House Ad opportunity, "Welcome to Neighborhood Open Houses. Finally, one place to find Open Houses in your area. Maximze your open house traffic by listing your open house here on line at Neighborhoodopenhouse.com " The site
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columbus ohio: Mona Lisa smile - 09/18/06 07:42 AM
deja vu..."Mona lisa, mona lisa...." I don't know why but I Googled the lyrics to Nat King Cole's 'Mona Lisa' recently.... the comments on Michigan Blogger Sara Lipnitz Active Rain Blog from her Florida admirers caught my attention... " Sara, You know I love reading your blog! That Mona Lisa smile won me over..
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columbus ohio: A New England Village in Central Ohio - 08/24/06 08:16 PM
Worthington Ohio is a transplanted New England Village, settled by people from Connecticut. Worthington is a Columbus suburb inside the 270 outerbelt. Worthington has a village green that is still used today, but cows do not graze there as they once did... (there are cows down the road but that's a different
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columbus ohio: Coast to Coast - 08/21/06 11:02 AM
Are you southwest of Ohio? Phil who is walking coast to coast across the US to raise funds for cancer research may be headed your way. Phil planned to stay along Route 40 but talking to an Ohio farmer west of Columbus he made a decision. On his blog 'Coat to Coast' Phil wrote: "The
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