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2012 

For those negative nay sayers, Debbie Downer's and Negative Neds out there in real estate land After submitting a offer on my $185,000 listing in Scottsdale Arizona in January of this year, this has to be almost a record breaker for the buyer, (I would guess it has appreciated in value about $20,...
08/31/2012
A recent course I was involved in through Brian Buffini, one of the people in our class who had  a license for about 12 months made a comment after we had been in class for about eight weeks, (a couple of hours a day) that they did not like calling people on the telephone. And I quickly responded...
08/31/2012
It is interesting to listen to Realtors, usually if you get around five or 10 of them and chit chat, there is always a couple complaining, about the market, interest rates, it is a buyers market, it is a sellers market; years ago I recall some often saying: BUYER'S ARE LIARS and SELLER'S ARE WORS...
08/31/2012
    Going from over 110 degrees to the mid 50's actually was a great change, and comfortable. Below is what they use to LIFT fishing vessels over 100 ft long out of the water and put them on the land on huge large wooden blocks to work on the bottom of the boat, somewhat different from the DRY DO...
08/28/2012
Last winter was the most severe they have ever had, the locals told us. Below: No I did not shoot this bear, it is one of many museums we visited. remember if you see one.......DO NOT RUN...... because if you can't run 35 miles per hour you will looks the race. So don't run from them and don't st...
08/27/2012
The best vacation I have ever had. Kodiak has a beauty somewhat like Hawaii yet different. No bears in Hawaii. However Kodiak has totally green mountains and mountain peaks as does Hawaii.   For those of you who have never seen a FOO FOO BOAT, you can see my wife at the helm ofa FOO FOO Boat. My ...
08/27/2012
Compared to the busy world and large city of Phoenix Arizona, the Island of Kodiak is ..............C O O L!!! Someone told me there are quite a few more bars than there are churches. There are 15 fish plants. That is the number of different places the fishing vessels can bring their catch into a...
08/27/2012
  Greetings from Kodiak! Talk about an awesome experience. Consider: Leaving 115 degrees in Phoenix Arizona and flying to Seattle WA. for about three hours, and another flight of about three hours to Anchorage Alaska === then due to FOG in Kodiak we stayed over one night in Anchorage finally got ...
08/27/2012
Think about this. 1. The DNC which our elected officials passed about nine years ago that Realtors and all other human beings EXCEPT for charities and themselves are not allowed to call people on the telephone. I am on the do not call list, and in the past two weeks I have received seven recorded...
08/27/2012
With over 30 as a licensed Realtor selling over 1000 homes in the Phoenix Arizona area. I have been experiencing some times in life like never before. How about YOU? And it is not that I am depressed, or negative, or a whiner because every day not only do I pray, also I read or listen to someone ...
08/27/2012
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