Does Confidence Matter? It's All Downhill From Here. - 09/30/07 07:29 AM
Mothers will be horrified, no doubt. Mine would have been.
There's not much difference between confidence and utter lunacy... except from the kid's perspective. Let's give him a name. Mikey!
Confidence shows in his stance, the set of his shoulders and arms, and in the initial direction of the skateboard.
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I'm Financing a Lot of Manufactured Homes. Amazing! - 09/28/07 08:16 PM
Manufactured housing is not the trainwreck that it's perceived to be by the lending community. 'Course when a real train hits a single-wide, you're looking at the result on the right.
Manufactured homes in Tucson are generally located on lots three to five times larger than those for new construction. They're … (12 comments)
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How Much Does It Take to Make You Happy? - 09/27/07 11:50 PM
David Oliver, in Deming, NM, captured the essence of optimism in the face of a storm in this photo. (You can save a high resolution version for your desktop by clicking here. Do it. You deserve a gift for subscribing to my blog.)
Does the market for Real Estate have you complaining … (32 comments)
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Have We Bottomed Out in the Credit Crunch? - 09/26/07 08:17 AM
Is the worst behind us in the credit crunch? When my account exec from First Franklin stopped calling on me earlier this year, it seemed that the handwriting was on the wall for another mortgage lender.
Merrill Lynch bought the mortgage unit from National City a year ago to compete with … (8 comments)
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Canadian Lives at Risk: Unintended Consequence of Lending "Freeze" - 09/25/07 08:01 AM
Without critical food supplies in store before Arctic winter cuts off contact, the lives of 200 Canadian workers could have been jeopardized as an unintended consequence of the subprime debacle in the credit markets.
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. sends annual supplies during the warmer months of the year by the route shown on … (7 comments)
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Great Seafood: Antoinetta's in Cedar Run, NJ - 09/24/07 12:30 AM
Who can resist a view like this? The little town of Cedar Run, NJ sits between State Route 9 and the west bank of Barnegat Bay.
At the end of Dock Road, surrounded by the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, you'll find a gem of a restaurant, Antoinetta's.
BYOB, because the arcane NJ liquor laws … (19 comments)
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Redneck Bird Feeder - 09/23/07 10:31 PM
One of the selling points of any Real Estate listing is a bird feeder, at least for most folks.
Don'tcha know this Redneck Bird Feeder brings a laugh to every REALTOR and client who visits? I'm thinking many of 'em run right home and build themselves one of their … (18 comments)
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Ethics & Risk: It's Amazing What You'll Find if You Dig a Little... - 09/23/07 07:09 PM
300,000 people traverse this gem of a beach called Long Beach Island each season. A very few of them dig down to see what they can find in the sand.
Since WWI, unexploded military ammunition (ordnance) buried beneath the sand in Surf City, NJ has threatened millions of happy, clueless, vacationing beach bums.
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Because of Active Rain... I'm Focused! - 09/15/07 02:27 AM
Talk about an "eagle eye!"This... is Focus!
That photo, by a gifted Canadian, is the wallpaper on my office computer, courtesy of Caedes.net
It reminds me time and again to do one thing at a time, to do it well, and to get it done before starting something else.
Because of Active Rain, I'm … (22 comments)
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How Do You Do That? Poetry & The Sales Profession - 09/15/07 01:06 AM
Words are previews of things to come. What you say will likely become what happens. Here's a unusual exercize to expand the part of your brain that has to do with the structure of thoughts: Write a poem. Let a phrase rattle around in your brain, then put it on paper. Here's how it … (20 comments)
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My Perspective: The Significance of Rebuilding Ground Zero - 09/14/07 01:34 PM
9-11 has come and gone for the sixth time, but the REAL ESTATE where the Twin Towers stood is still a hole in the ground.
Progress is being made for the Freedom Tower and surrounding complex.
What will be built? Not merely a memorial, although history will require it. Not only a … (9 comments)
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You Might Want to Consider Moving to Tucson, Arizona! - 09/14/07 12:58 AM
An intrinsic value of holding title to Real Estate is that one owns the sky above it.
Spectacular cloud formations move into the Southwest as the June sun heats the desert floor. I like to think that the towering clouds drive before them flocks of the Lesser Hardy Snowbirds. They seem to … (21 comments)
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HONESTY...a Parable - 09/13/07 03:43 AM
It's called Honesty, and it will grow in your garden. Google "honesty" and a plant pops to the top of the charts! Or the front of the page. Or something like that.
The plant comes in two varities: an annual version, and the perennial version. The annual version will grace your … (21 comments)
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I Honestly Didn't Have Time... - 09/13/07 01:39 AM
Yesterday, I fulfilled a promise to a client and his family. I helped them pack a U-Haul to move to their new home. I really didn't have the time. Honest I didn't! My To Do list for Tuesday looked like this:5 a.m. Drop Darlin' at airport to see family (I'll … (26 comments)
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Labor Day Feast on the Boardwalk, Seaside Heights, NJ - 09/09/07 08:34 PM
Is there anything as downright delicious as fresh seafood at the Jersey Shore?
Labor Day Weekend found us in Middletown, NJ. We're transplants from Long Beach Island to Tucson, Arizona. My Darlin's sister lives half an hour down the Garden State Parkway, and that's where we were headed.
We checked … (8 comments)
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Post More Blogs About Real Estate! Active Rain is on Page 3! - 09/06/07 10:31 PM
Google "Real Estate Blogs." I did, after reading TLW...ROAR's post yesterday. Active Rain (my favorite forum) is listed all the way back on page 3. If I had a bigger screen, maybe it would have been at the bottom of page 2. Maybe not. The point is, as an entity, Active Rain's … (32 comments)
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REALTORS®: Do Lenders w/ Real Estate Licenses Threaten Your Livelihood? - 09/06/07 08:40 AM
It's Kate Bourland's fault. "West Coast Kate" is a lender with New Key Home Lending in Redding, CA. You can see from her Active Rain photo there that she stirs up a lot of fun and mischief. I'm betting her parents went grey prematurely.
I particularly like to read other lender's blogs. … (35 comments)
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Interstate 10 Project To Have Positive Effect on Real Estate in Tucson, AZ - 09/05/07 08:42 AM
The dust storm blew across the interstate unannounced. In less than 30 seconds, visibility dropped from 10 miles to 1/10th of a mile. 10 seconds later it was hard to see half the length of a football field.We make the national news when this happens, because people die in massive pile-ups. … (18 comments)
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Will The Client Choose You? "For Better. For Worse. Never Static." - 09/04/07 02:41 AM
I didn't choose my darling. Oh, I bought the ring and posed the question. But even though she responded to my "marketing campaign" in the affirmative, it would be a mistake to think the relationship was my choice--that I decided, and it was so. She did the choosing.
As in love, … (47 comments)
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She was afraid... to go out... in the water... - 09/03/07 06:43 PM
Isn't this situation a little ridiculous?
Roy H. Williams, my all-time favorite "Wizard of Ads," asked the question in his Monday Morning Memo: "Will Fear of Risk Blind Your Client to Opportunity?" It got me thinking about my own clients who have pulled in their horns, so to speak, because … (25 comments)
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