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2007
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I don't leave cash on my desk at the office. You don't leave your keys in the car at the grocery store. It creates a temptation for someone to make off with something of value that doesn't belong to them. The term for creating such a temptation is Moral Hazard. The risk in Moral Hazard is that...
11/28/2007
It's simple. You can teach it to the rawest recruit in your office. It's sound. Nothing will fall through the cracks. It's safe. You'll never lose data unless the building burns down around you. And (near and dear to MY heart) it's dirt cheap! Last week's post Networking Heritage? Her Mom Was...
11/26/2007
Today's Active Rain front page Featured Posts included this title, by Lenn Harley: MASSIVE FORECLOSURES COMING? THE MARKET IS SPEAKING LOUD AND CLEAR. You might want to read it, and the commentary it's attracted, before continuing. By the time I read Lenn's post, almost eighty people had comment...
11/25/2007
Edit: 4/10/08 (83,000 members)We're closing on 60,000 members in Active Rain. Yesterday saw 44 Newbies join our ranks, from places as far from my Tucson home as Vancouver, British Columbia and Ponce Inlet, Florida. With so many new members, and so much content to wade through, it's hard to know...
11/24/2007
I'm spoiled by the Active Rain interface that lets me comment and interact. Todd Carpenter has an extremely useful site called Lenderama. This screen shot is from the latest post by a writer taking advantage of Todd's "Open Microphone" feature. Wade Young, of Red Door Home Loans, has written a...
11/23/2007
Len Elder is my favorite teacher. A mortgage broker, real estate broker, and attorney at law, Len writes cirricula for the Hogan School of Real Estate in Tucson, Arizona. Sunday a couple of months ago, I found him at Starbucks, papers strewn across the little round table, writing poetry. Len c...
11/20/2007
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Lori Riegel is, hands down, the most effective networker I've met in Tucson. My phone rings because Lori met with someone in her capacity as Marketing Consultant with Tucson's Arizona Jewish Post. She's a machine! Lori has a simple (and simply the most effective) two-book system for tracking h...
11/19/2007
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Jill Fuhrer, of the tag team Lehigh Valley PA Homes - Jill & Ron Fuhrer, commented on my blog this evening, and I went looking for a sign to spice up my comment. Here it is on the left.When I first started blogging on Active Rain, I had no idea how to find, make, size and insert these wonderful ...
11/18/2007
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She's seven years old. Maybe eight. Grandkids keep changing on you when you're not looking. Her attention span rivals that of a six week old puppy. When I blog, I keep Hanna's world view in mind. For a very short period of time, she's very focused. And in that way, Hanna is exactly like you...
11/14/2007
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Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound... From the earliest days of childhood, we six could remember Mother humming this tune. We have no need of the lyrics; they are part of us. Mary Jane, at 22 a US Army nurse with the 109th General Hospital in Europe, returned safely to Haddonfield, NJ, where s...
11/11/2007
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