Today the Saline Chamber of Commerce held a Lunch and Learn at Stonebridge Golf Club. Michael Lorenc spoke from Google. Mike and his wife Amy were my buyer clients last year when they moved here from Poland, where Mike was head of Google in Poland. Imagine my surprise when I said "hello" and he
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09/30/2008
Roadblocks to a Successful Closing in Ann Arbor One of the documents we send out to our sellers and buyers after they are under contract are potential roadblocks to a closing. They can be from various people involved in the transaction. It is not negative just an information piece we put togeth
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09/30/2008
I have been seeing more and more group or community blogs out in the blogosphere. A group blog is a collaborative effort each post written by individuals but all under one platform. Agent Genius won the Innovator of Year Award at Inman Connect in San Francisco this July. As I said in this post
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09/27/2008
Thanks to Elizabeth Nieves for inspiring this post from her post today. Two hundred, eleven years ago, our country faced another huge crisis, the Constitutional Convention had met in Philadelphia to rewrite the Articles of the Confederation. The quarrels between the States were deep and divisive.
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09/26/2008
Are you who you say you are? When I first started blogging in 2006, it didn’t take long to figure out a few blogging buzz words. One of those words was transparent, or transparency. Transparency, as used in the humanities, implies openness, communication, and accountability. It is a metaphorica
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09/23/2008
The Ann Arbor District Library Board has voted to tear down the main library downtown and build a new one in its place. Recently the Library posted a survey online with over 6,000 people responding. The survey asked how space at the library should be allocated, and about a proposed underground pa
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09/22/2008
Back in August, Benn Rosales, founder of Agent Genius, posted on a great tool, called Rock You. It is a lot like slideshow, but you can add music. I immediately went to my WordPress.org blog and tried it out, Ann Arbor Real Estate Talk. You can also immediately submit it to your FaceBook and oth
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09/21/2008
Saline Area Schools is doing a need assessment for each of our schools and wants the parents input. As parents and members of Saline Area Schools District, it is important we take the opportunity to provide our input. There are two different pilots to choose from, one if you have a child attendin
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09/21/2008
Broker Bryant wrote on a final walk through that has inspired this post. I have sold five homes in Dhu Varren over the years. This situation occurred at the closings of one of those homes. AT THE CLOSING TABLE, the Buyer Agent, "there is a HUGE spot on the carpet and we want new carpet." "Well,
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09/18/2008
Today I received an email from Trulia, that you can now download their listings to your phone. This was available only on the Iphones until the latest update. Using a software called lightpole. Lightpole allows you get real time data on your mobile phones from any geo-specific area or content. I
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09/18/2008
