Brooklyn Goes Green - 12/29/06 05:00 PM
For all you college football fans, I'm in El Paso, at the Sun Bowl--my husband and his brother and my sister in law are all Oregon State Grads so here we are....Just wanted to post this for those of you in New York who have expressed interest in some of the (1 comments)
'Tis A Gift to Be Simple - 12/20/06 10:01 PM
For those of you old enough to remember Werner Erhardt and EST this may come as a shock. While I never understood why people were so enamoured of him or EST I do think that he made at least one very profound statement. In the process of "Getting it" people (7 comments)
Real Estate as a Vehicle of Social Change - 12/20/06 01:39 AM
I have mentioned in previous posts that I was a Social Worker and Counselor for many years before I began my career in real estate. As the new year approaches, I find myself reflecting on the ways in which my current choice of occupation relates to my past experience. One (23 comments)
It Ain't Easy Being Green - 12/17/06 10:45 PM
Finding the perfect green elements in a home is akin to the search for the holy grail. There are many layers of considerations that must be mulled through. Nothing is necessarily the perfectmaterial for any given home. What is the percentage of post consumer recycled content?Is the embodied energy involved in getting (2 comments)
WHAT NOT TO RECYCLE - 12/15/06 11:49 PM
I am an unabashed fan of recycling everything possible, however there are sometimes when you need to let things go. Old toilets, for example are probablybest used as planters or bases for sculptue.Toilets made prior to 1994 often use 3.5 to 7 gallons of water per flush while new models use (3 comments)
Long time Listing - 12/14/06 11:04 AM
Been thinking about buyer loyalty--even seller loyalty for that matter. Saw a seller today who has been saying for 3 months now that she is going to list her house with me...it's actually her father's house and he has moved into assited care so I understand that part of her foot (4 comments)
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My blog is as much about a philosophy of life and living as it is about real estate as a business. E.F. Shumacher subtitled his book SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL "Economics as if People Mattered" In the real estate industry we realize that people matter and that where they live matters. We now also have a larger responsiblity, I believe, to get them to consider HOW they live. Everyone in the developed world using less energy and resources makes it possible for those who have access to neither to experience a better life and to make the difference between their being able to having a roof overhead or not or for their children to eat or not.