ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2011
Between Thanksgiving and New Years Day, it can be a tough time to close a rental or make a sale. Altruism aside, how can you get folks to step away from all that family-time and Christmas hub-ub and be inclined to move during what the industry reports as the slowest time of the year? First, it'...
11/29/2011
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Back in the day when I was working onsite in property management, I remember some of the toxic practices we used to treat a variety of building maladies – Trisodium phosphate for general grime and nicotine build-up, common bleach cured about 80% of all ills, oil based volatile sealers for cat pee...
11/23/2011
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It’s 1977, I’m 7 years old, and I’m in the upstairs of our family’s farmhouse in my little bedroom. My 13-year-old brother just bought his first Boston album, our parents are gone, and he’s blaring his new record as loud as his speakers can deliver. I’m peeking through the hole in my closet int...
11/22/2011
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UI or IT? When you think about your personal and professional life, are you full of balance and harmony or does it look a little bit more like chaos?I'd love to think I'm more of a UI person...my life flowing like a babbling brook to the sea...order and thoughfulnees filling my actions...and my...
11/18/2011
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I'm a big believer in personal freedoms. You won't see me filling out any ballots that limit the rights of individuals to govern themselves. What someone does with their own life is their business. What someone does with yours, is your business. That being said, Landlords should exercise their ...
11/16/2011
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We all have those days – the ones where we think we might lose our mind, or a portion of it, if we are presented with one more ridiculous question. “Ummm, yeah, what was it I was supposed to do with those documents??” Or, for the 8th time in one week, “I’m sorry, but I can’t remember how we’re...
11/15/2011
