For the last 18 months, maybe longer, a significant part of my job has been to disappoint people. I get to deliver messages that nobody wants to hear: “Your home is not worth what you paid for it.”“You owe the bank more than your house is worth.”“Your neighbors got more last year than you will ge
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10/29/2007
I don’t know if it was naivety or wishful thinking. Yesterday I had a call from a consumer who was looking for homes for her mother. She had found something she thought was suitable and she wanted to see it that night. I had never met her before, so part of my job is to pre-qualify a buyer before
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10/16/2007
Rainers: This is an encore presentation of a post that was first appeared exactly one year ago today. I repost it because much of it is still relevant. In terms of milestones, this was the first ActiveRain post to ever cross 100 comments. At the time, it was very controversial. I confess that
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10/14/2007
OK folks, it has been a long time since I took the helm and announced a blog tour, but it is time to rally the troops and start up again. Rainers are asking all kinds of questions about outside blogs and what better way get some answers than by looking around at what your peers are doing?I have
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10/07/2007
Yesterday (correction: it was Tuesday) my mailbox nearly exploded with friend notifications from digg.com. I have been an isolated member of digg since 2006. I was there, but I did not have any friends. Somehow someone out there in the RE blogosphere ignited a friending spree on digg, and now,
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10/04/2007
