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2010 

Yesterday I posted an entry about hope. I got to thinking afterwards about my earlier (a coupe of weeks ago) post about the three horsemen of the current financial apocalypse - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). Perhaps hope is part of the best triumvirate on the positive side - faith, hope and o...
11/29/2010
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There are lots of stories, articles, blogs and other communications that based on the concept of hope. Having hope is a uniquely human trait. Hope combined with faith gives even the most downtrodden of people a reason to go on living. But, hope must also be based in reality. It is all well and go...
11/29/2010
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"I'll see it, when I believe it." (Dr Wayne Dyer), from a post last week in the Jack's Winning Words Blog. Read it again. That's where we are with a lot of sellers right now. They don't believe it, so they don't see it. They don't believe that it happened to them, to their house, to their equity....
11/26/2010
It would be very hard not to find something to be thankful for today. One has only to watch the nightly news to see the misery around the world that thankfully seldom touches our shores. I'm sure that most American families have some members who are struggling through the current recession, maybe...
11/25/2010
Yesterday I posted about agents who can't take no for an answer; those who refuse to let go of a deal, even if it is clearly dead. That's really a small part of a larger problems that I've encountered a few times - the agent bully. Some agents are just such naturally intense and competitive sales...
11/23/2010
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In these tough times it is sometimes very difficult to just let go and move on with life. Agents are pulling out all stops and trying everything that they can think of to save deals. I can't blame them for trying and sometimes the extra effort or new approach might actually turn up something that...
11/21/2010
There is a popular definition of insanity that goes, ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.' In real estate these days that definition might be better stated as, ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results.' The market we are in is just insane....
11/21/2010
I've been watching the shows on HGTV a lot lately, especially the Property Virgins show. It's interesting how editing can make the process look a lot better than it is in reality. I must give the producers credit though, they do mention in the show that the couple being featured may have looked a...
11/18/2010
From IconoCulture comes this report about things impacting the older generation - the so-called boomers and matures. IconoCulture is a consumer research organization that reports weekly on trends that they see in the consumer dtata that they collect. Sign up for a weekly feed at www.iconoculture....
11/16/2010
 I recently did a short piece in my bi-monthly newsletter about crawl spaces and how putting in an encapsulation system can have a positive impact on the value of the home.To my great surprise, that article was the one mentioned most often by people who get my newsletter and see me at church or o...
11/15/2010
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Posts about things going on in Real Estate in Milford, Michigan; Highland, Michigan; White Lake, Michigan; Commerce Twp, Michigan,; West Bloomfield, Michigan; South Lyon, Michigan; Birghton, Michigan and HArtland, Michigan in Oakland and Livingston Counties of Michigan