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Dubai, Architecture's La-La Land... - 07/31/08 01:08 PM
Dubai has long fascinated me. My love of architecture has drawn me to this place like a moth attracted to a light bulb. I can't help myself; Dubai speaks to me!
A mere stretch of sand in the eighties, Dubai is now one of the most enticing architectural marvels on the face of this planet. Consider this: 25% of all the World's cranes are currently employed in Dubai. When completed, Dubai's Waterfront will be the LARGEST in the World!
One of my clients lives in Dubai (the family owns several multi million dollar properties on the sand in … (107 comments)
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God Has a Sense of Humor! Do Kids Always Go In The Opposite Direction? - 07/30/08 10:37 AM
All I can say is: God has a sense of humor! I am the most "improvisational" person I know. They have other words for people like me: Bohemian lifestyle, leader, non-conformist, etc. I've always just followed my own heart, regardless of how "popular" that route was. It never bothered me to go against the grain. I fought governmental interests on ecological issues long before "Green" became a popular notion. I gave birth at home long before there was a home birthing movement. I created my own businesses so I wouldn't have to answer to anyone. My kids are both … (23 comments)
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The 100K Blogger! Gary, You Won Again! - 07/29/08 11:09 PM
OK, Gary, you won again! You tied with Doug, John and Debbie.
I posted two separate blogs asking members to predict when AR will turn 100,000 points -
99,433... When Will Active Rain be 100,000 Members Strong? Make Your Predictions Here:
One blog had 32 comments; the other one had only 18.
AR turned 100,000 members strong on Friday, July 25Th and the four of you predicted the date of that event correctly. We'll just have to refer to the four of you as "The Intuitives" from now on...
Here are
The AR INTUITIVES:
Gary Woltal http://activerain.com/woltal
Douglas … (26 comments)
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Donate a Blog... Help a Friend Attain Her Goal! HOW SARA MADE HER GOAL WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HER FRIENDS... - 07/29/08 05:47 PM
Sara is inches away from attaining her goal. She is turning 50 today and she is only 1,800 points away from 50,000 points. Her goal was to achieve the 50,000 points status by her 50th Birthday. She is so-o-o close, and yet no cigar, unless she posts 9 more blogs TODAY.
I will send her a blog I was going to post later tonight, so she can post it under her number. I'll send her the pictures for it too. If we all send her one blog, she'll reach her goal.
What do you say? Let's help … (14 comments)
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Congratulations ActiveRain! We Are Now Over 100,000 Members Strong! - 07/26/08 02:41 AM
Congratulations ActiveRain.com for your huge accomplishment! We are now over 100,000 members strong.
Matt and Jonathan, congratulations! 2008 has been a stellar year. Thank you for a fine organization! You are true visionaries!
Here is an interesting article I found about our organization on Mashable.com. I always like knowing how things work, don't you?
January 21, 2008
Social network for real estate professionals ActiveRain has just raised $2.75 million in financing from HouseValues , which is another company that's involved in the real estate market. According the VentureBeat , "The site has been around for about two and a half years, … (10 comments)
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I ALMOST MADE IT... SO-O-O CLOSE... OUCH! - 07/25/08 05:24 PM
My goal was to garner 100,000 points by the time Active Rain touched the magic number of 100,000 members.
AR finally achieved the 100,000 member status and I have 108,732 points! Done!
The second part of my goal was to have at least 100 members in the Optimist Group. We now have 140 members. Done!
The third part of my goal was to be in the top 100 bloggers. I am two subscriptions away from achieving that goal... which means: NOT Done!
The day is not over yet... If you like reading my posts, please … (26 comments)
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GRATITUDE: The Relationship Nurturer - 07/25/08 09:25 AM
Gratitude is so extraordinarily important in ANY relationship. Showing your appreciation goes a long way... Just leaving a card on the table with a heartfelt message of appreciation goes a long way. I use this a lot with all my relationships. I leave my assistant an appreciation card with a nice bonus; I do the same for my agents. My kids get them too.
Spontaneous notes of affection and appreciation, along with simple, sweet gifts, go a very long way.... Most keep those cards forever. They are THAT important! I once found my son's stash of appreciation cards I … (15 comments)
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Integrating Moving Pictures Into Your Blogs - 07/23/08 08:30 PM
Photobucket.com is the site a lot of the top bloggers here on AR seem to be using for their illustrations and pictures. It's free; you just have to create your profile.
Playing around in "The Bucket", I noticed several "moving pictures" and started tooling around with them.
Here is how you can integrate the moving pictures into your blogs. Copy and paste the code for the desired picture into the HTML portion of your blog - when you post it for the first time, or when you edit it, it's the tab at the upper, left side … (16 comments)
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99,433... When Will Active Rain be 100,000 Members Strong? Make Your Predictions Here: - 07/23/08 02:04 PM
When I joined in September of last year, AR had around 40,000+ members. Not even a year later, we are so close to the 100,000 mark.
When will we reach it? Go ahead! Go on record with your predictions! Maybe AR will award the winner 100,000 points. Hint, hint...
Mirela Monte, Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection
Join The Optimist Group!
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99,433... When Will Active Rain be 100,000 Members Strong? Make Your Predictions Here: - 07/23/08 01:15 PM
When I joined in September of last year, AR had around 40,000+ members. Not even a year later, we are so close to the 100,000 mark.
When will we reach it? Go ahead! Go on record with your predictions! Maybe AR will award the winner 100,000 points. Hint, hint...
Mirela Monte, Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection
Join The Optimist Group!
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Cool Tech Site... Check It Out! - 07/22/08 01:22 AM
Does anyone know anything about this site? I bumped into it and liked it, and wanted to share it with you. There are some interesting tips on Web optimizing; I found out that banners and links can now be crawled, and that "Google Adsense referral program" is now retired and will be stopped during the last week of August.
eTechBuzz.com
Check it out and let me know what you think about it!
Mirela Monte, Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection Join The Optimist Group!
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Another Sold North Myrtle Beach Real Estate Town Home by Mirela Monte - 07/20/08 03:00 AM
Mirela Monte is proud to announce the sale of yet another fine North Myrtle Beach Town Home at Robbers Roost.
Robbers Roost, beautifully nestled in the verdant setting of Tilghman Estates is one of the best kept secrets of North Myrtle Beach. A quick golf cart ride gets you to both the ocean and shopping. The location is ideal for anyone interested in the easy Beach Lifestyle.
Tilghman Estates' homes' values reflect the beauty extant here, with million dollar price tags de rigueur. My buyer clients got a deal indeed. They purchased this lovely 2BR/2BA Robber's … (6 comments)
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Myrtle Beach Waterway Home: Pre Foreclosure... Save a cool $ 1MIL - 07/20/08 01:01 AM
Myrtle Beach Waterway Home
This modern, Mediterranean style home is located right on the Intercoastal Waterway. It is 6,000 sq.ft, 5BR/4.5BA, with 3 Huge decks overlooking the water. The home is about 87% finished - it still needs garage doors, flooring, railing, kitchen cabinets and counter-tops, light fixtures and appliances.
The location is idyllic and the views superb. Only a short golf ride to the Beach, within walking distance to the gym, golf & park, there is no better location than this in the entire Myrtle Beach area. Did I mention that it's also within minutes of the local … (5 comments)
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Affordable Aerial Photography: Wow, this little gizmo is Impressive! - 07/19/08 11:51 PM
I've always recognized the value of aerial photography for Real Estate Marketing, but found the cost and bother too intense for my taste. Now it looks like I'll be jumping into the Aerial Photography arena, with a little gizmo sold on line at Target.com.
It is called the Estes R/C Aerial Photo Airplane and a cool $ 159.98 will garner it along with free shipping, I might add. This crafty aircraft (can I say that?) can do a lot:
· Radio-controlled airplane that takes up to 26 fantastic aerial digital photos per flight with a simple push of … (33 comments)
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No Soup For You! ...Unless You Vote for Your Favorite Sitcom! - 07/19/08 02:52 PM
The Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld still resonates with me years after watching it. The phenomenon called the Sitcom plays a big role in the American psyche. TV at its best, making us feel good, providing fodder for entertaining discussions long after the episodes are played. Who doesn't remember the Soup Nazi episode, or the Taxi characters, or the painter who never finished the job on Murphy Brown's home, even into the third season? "I Love Lucy!", the grandparent of them all is still being played, but instead of the black and white box, it's now showing on fancy High Definition … (36 comments)
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God Bless America! An Immigrant's Declaration of Love... - 07/19/08 11:52 AM
I was raised in a communist, iron curtain country. We were NOT allowed to go ANYWHERE. The happiest moment in my life was when I arrived in the USA. To be FREE is indeed an amazing privilege. I have tears in my eyes as I'm writing this.
The human spirit seeks freedom. Being able to go anywhere in the World and reading anything (our books were censored too) is indeed such an amazing opportunity. For those born in this country, that privilege is taken for granted. For me, it is still a privilege much revered. I thank God every day for being here!
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Realtor in Desperate Need of R&R: Please Help me get to ALASKA!!! - 07/19/08 12:15 AM
When you live in paradise - Myrtle Beach - it's hard to go somewhere else to vacation. I mean, really, why leave?
I tell you why: change of scenery.
I crave Alaska. Four years ago, after servicing clients from Alaska and after hearing their stories about that magical faraway land, I made it my goal to see Alaska in July. That summer I went to Nice and Cannes, and Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, but NO Alaska. The next year I went to Lake Lure and Asheville. The following summer it was back to Barcelona, Costa Brava and Bordeaux... … (27 comments)
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Palmetto Harbor in North Myrtle Beach, SC - 07/18/08 03:39 AM
Palmetto Harbor in North Myrtle Beach, SC
Palmetto Harbor - right on the Intercoastal Waterway, yet so close to the Beach.
Two beautiful golf courses only steps away, a fine Park, the Intercoastal Waterway and the Beach, WOW! Add to that a community center within walking distance with indoor basketball courts, tennis courts, the works. There simply is no better location than this in the entire North Myrtle Beach area!
I just listed two pre-foreclosure custom homes. Both of them are around 6,000 sq. ft. 5BR/4.5 BA and 6BR/3.5BA. One is second row from the Waterway. … (5 comments)
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Comic Sutra... Is Laughter The Best Aphrodisiac? - 07/17/08 01:38 AM
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but a man that can make you laugh everyday, ah, now THAT'S a real treat' Joanne Woodward - married to Paul Newman for over 40 years.
It recently dawned on me that I've always been attracted to men who could make me laugh. Several other women I know put that requirement high on the priority and desirability list, so I've done some Internet investigating and guess what? Laughter IS considered an APHRODISIAC.
"Everyone knows that a ‘good sense of humor' GSOH, is one of the most desirable attributes in a relationship, and that's … (30 comments)
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Myrtle Beach Condos Market Report: 7,727 Available, 255 sold. 3.3% activity; 2.5 year inventory surplus - 07/16/08 01:41 AM
We currently have 7,727 condos for sale in the Myrtle Beach area. Out of those, only 255 condos were sold during the month of June. Only 3.3% of our condo inventory was sold during the month of June. At that rate of activity, it will take a little over 2.5 years to sell out of our current inventory.
The most expensive condo sold in the Myrtle Beach area in June was a 4BR/3BA, 2,800 sq. ft. oceanfront unit at Margate Tower in Kingston Plantation. Originally listed at $1.4MIL, it sold 128 days later for $960,000.
The least expensive … (10 comments)
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Delayed Gratification... You Can't Get There Until You Learn This Lesson! - 07/16/08 12:12 AM
This may be the single, most important thing to teach yourself in order to succeed in life.
What is delayed gratification? It's a daily negotiation with yourself. You do the chores you dread first, in order to allow yourself the pleasure you seek. For example, if you have a problem to tend to that day, do it first thing in the morning and treat yourself to a nice lunch if you manage to solve it successfully.
You award yourself for good behavior and you tend to the hard stuff first (you DELAY the gratification). If you want to … (7 comments)
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Why the Marriage Contract Should be Renewed Every Year... - 07/15/08 01:39 AM
Or at least every other year. Maybe if we maintained the possibility of a relationship dismissal based on performance, the two participants would accord the relationship enough attention to avert it from falling into disrepair.
All marriages are started with good intentions, yet somehow many of them become fraught with unbearable stagnancy and sheer frustration.
Many couples lead lives of "Quiet Desperation", seeming perfectly fine to the outside world, yet pained to the core, crying when no one is watching, howling angrily on the inside.
Life is too short to live like that. Am I … (31 comments)
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Myrtle Beach In July... Wish You Were Here! - 07/13/08 10:59 PM
Myrtle Beach In July... Wish You Were Here!
Wow, what a great day at the beach today was! The water was so blue, the sand so white. There was not a cloud in the sky and the temperature was in the late eighties or early nineties... just perfect!
If you've never been to Myrtle Beach, you owe it to yourself to come down and try it for yourself. The water was so warm and clean; the waves were breaking close to the shore so you could just float for hours if you went a bit away from it … (42 comments)
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The Smart Business Card: A New Concept in Viral Marketing - 07/12/08 03:50 PM
Business Cards...
Why not take this wonderful tool to the next level? Here are mine: the front promotes me and my Business, the back of my card promotes one of my listings via a picture of the property and the website I've created specifically for that property. My Sellers love them and these business cards have helped me garner even more listings.
Read on for how you can do the same for under $ 40.
Is your picture on your card?
Is your correct e-mail address on your card? Is your address a professional address, reflecting your business or some … (11 comments)
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The Smart Business Card: A New Concept in Viral Marketing - 07/11/08 12:43 PM
Business Cards...
Why not take this wonderful tool to the next level? Here are mine: the front promotes me and my Business, the back of my card promotes one of my listings via a picture of the property and the website I've created specifically for that property. My Sellers love them and these business cards have helped me garner even more listings.
Read on for how you can do the same for under $ 40.
Is your picture on your card?
Is your correct e-mail address on your card? Is your address a professional address, reflecting your business or … (39 comments)
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Share Your AR Success Story! - 07/11/08 11:30 AM
With almost 100,000 members, ActiveRain has become the number one network of Real Estate Professionals.
With the unveiling of its new Localism.com and the outside blog feature, any Real Estate Professional who does not take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity is missing the boat.
I have personally sent out over 30 invitations to my friends in the business. Only 14 of them have accepted. One of them told me she was too busy to register. That was almost a year ago. Her business has slowed to a trickle and she is now possibly losing her home and … (14 comments)
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Colonial Charters: Is it located in Longs or Little River, SC? - 07/11/08 10:05 AM
Colonial Charters: Is it located in Longs or Little River, SC?
Colonial Charters is a grand development comprised of several subdivisions and condo projects. Part of the development is located in Little River, SC, and part of it is in Longs, SC.
I live at Colonial Charters, along with about a dozen other Realtors. This is a very popular place for us agents, because it is quiet and tranquil, yet it is close to the beach, schools, hospital and shopping, with easy access to both NC (via hwy. 57) and the rest of Myrtle Beach proper (via hwy. … (2 comments)
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Myrtle Beach Homes Sold in June 2008 - 07/11/08 12:13 AM
Myrtle Beach Homes Sold in June 2008
Of the 6,669 homes currently available for sale, 339 have actually been sold during the month of June. Hooray! Over 5% of our listings have been sold during June (that's 5.08% to be exact). Can other parts of the country make that claim?
At this rate, we'll be all sold out of our inventory by March of 2010!!!
The cheapest home sold in June went for $20,000. It was a 2BR/2BA mobile home on leased land, located at Crystal Lakes in Myrtle Beach. Originally priced at $ 25,900, it was … (7 comments)
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Myrtle Beach Homes For Sale; All 6,669 of Them... - 07/10/08 11:13 PM
Myrtle Beach Homes For Sale:
There are currently 6,669 homes available for sale in the Coastal Carolinas Association of Realtors MLS system, which covers Myrtle Beach and the immediate adjoining areas.
The cheapest home in our system is a 2BR/1BA mobile home on leased land located in Marion, SC. Asking price: $ 9,900.
The most expensive home on our MLS is a 15 year old, 4BR/4.5BA, 5,000 sq. ft. home on 6.8 acres, located in Calabash, NC. Asking price: $ 9MIL.
Enough about adjoining areas, you say. Give me Myrtle Beach proper! Here … (2 comments)
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Beach Club III in the Windy Hill section of North Myrtle Beach, SC - 07/10/08 09:08 PM
Beach Club III in the Windy Hill section of North Myrtle Beach, SC
Unit 5-E
This spacious, home like oceanfront 4BR/3BA condo takes the entire corner on the SE side, conferring awesome views of the Atlantic from its spacious 20 ft. balcony.
Large Oceanfront Master Suite, full kitchen with large bar, dining area and spacious living room makes this an ideal second home at the beach. Ample storage and plenty of room to roam. This is truly a one of a kind oceanfront home opportunity.
This condo comes fully furnished with all appliances, including washer and … (2 comments)
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Oh, My God, I LOVE The New LOCALISM!!! - 07/09/08 12:47 AM
OMG!!! I was so surprised. I was just checking something on Localism.com when it HIT ME! The New Localism is here!
WOW! WOW! WOW! Can I say "Wow!" a few more times?
Impressed is not adequate. Flabbergasted! Super excited! This is AWESOME!
Great job guys! Amazingly good! This will give me even more of an incentive to create more Localism blogs. Watch out! Mirela is rolling out Localism blogs pronto!
AR: you rock! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Your HUGE FAN!
Mirela Monte, Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection Join The … (25 comments)
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The Value of Consistency - 07/08/08 11:09 PM
I recently hired a new assistant. She is smart, sharp, beautiful, intrepid and affable. She had a superb first week. By the end of the second week she faded out and never showed up for her third week. She's still MIA.
I watched another friend of mine get so excited about a new job, or a new opportunity. He would dedicate himself wholeheartedly for a few weeks, then, when he failed to garner the expected results he just quit. He's done that time and time again and he's been in the same spot for many years and will probably always stay … (24 comments)
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My Myrtle Beach Vacation - 07/08/08 01:35 AM
We arrived by plane. Everyone
was so friendly...
It was a good thing that we flew in...
Because there were so many tourists; the roads and trains were so congested...
Biking was out of this World though...
We spent our days laying on the Beach...
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Say Whaaat?!? - 07/03/08 02:04 AM
Picture a condo project of about a hundred units and not a single sale since December. Add to that a top Realtor and a motivated Seller and we finally produced a fully executed contract (just in case you were wondering: the author is the top Realtor in this story). Price reduction compared to the last one sold: about 30%. The Seller sweat bullets. With a clenched hand he finally signed the agreement.
Now the Buyer wants a new AC unit, a new water heater, a door changed, a window fixed and various odds and ends. Final estimate: close to $ 5,000. … (18 comments)
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Address: BUYERS' CHOICE REALTY, 702-3 Sea Mountain Hwy., North Myrtle Beach, SC, 29582
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