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2008
How many times have you said, "I need to get rid of this," or "We ought to sell that"? How many times have your sellers asked, "What should I do with the piano, the dining room set, the lawn mower, or the exercise equipment?" And my favorite, "We just had a litter of kittens!" There's a new wa...
08/31/2008
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Allen Hainge and Ellie Palmer were driving over to Baltimore from Reston, VA to meet us for lunch. Great. And I knew exactly how to get to the Bay Café, but it's difficult to explain to someone who doesn't know that area of Baltimore where streets don't all go in a nice, neat, criss-cross grid. T...
08/30/2008
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How exciting is this? Recently I recorded a teleseminar on Creative Strategies to Attract Serious Buyers in A Declining Market with iSucceed.com, the real estate training and real estate self-help coaching center. My conversation with Bill Shue has just been posted, and you can find it here: http...
08/28/2008
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When your child shines, you glow. So you can understand why I'm proud of my talented daughter, Erica, who will be playing for the Victorian Lyric Opera Company's Gilbert & Sullivan Sing-Out this weekend. Every five years, VLOC in Rockville, MD, holds this gigantic Gilbert & Sullivan event. All t...
08/27/2008
It was another beautiful Saturday morning when ten of us in four planes flew in to Cambridge, MD for breakfast at Kay's. The owner, Kay herself, stopped by our table and enjoyed reading what I wrote about a visit we made a few weeks ago. I called from the plane to make reservations since we kne...
08/25/2008
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1504 Kirchner Lane Anne Arundel County 21054 (Draft) (edit/delete) 1504 Kirchner Lane, Anne Arundel County 21054 $949,944 Newly Remodeled and Redecorated Williamsburg Colonial estate with lush gardens and extensive landscaping. Surrounded by woods and wildlife on 3.5 acres in the private communi...
08/19/2008
The Ravens encouraged ticket holders to remain at M&T Bank Stadium tonight after the conclusion of the team's pre season game against the Minnesota Vikings. The reason... to watch the NBC broadcast of Michael Phelps' final race of the Beijing Olympics on the stadium's SmartVision board. ...
08/16/2008
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On Sunday, I received a call from Nancy Dunham, a reporter at the Baltimore Examiner interested in my special listing 2349 Southfield Ct. Finksburg, Maryland 21048 She was looking for a good home to feature in her story about auctions. Nancy was on a deadline and needed all the information b...
08/15/2008
Michael Phelps, from Baltimore, just won his eighth Olympic gold medal a new world record. This photo was taken while our National Anthem was playing. ...
08/09/2008
In today's market, a professional real estate agent owes it to the seller to consider and present all options for selling a property, especially when it has been on the market for a while. Accelerated Marketing can be one of those options. There's a popular perception that "Auction" = "Distress...
08/08/2008