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2009 

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Have you ever noticed when you go to your home page and you check your messages and there is nothing there. I try to clear my message board everyday so I can track my comments and those I have commented on. Nothing is as scary as to see nothing, 6 hours after you post a blog. I guess we have some...
03/31/2009
I just saw 20 good agents leave the business. When I say good, I mean, I have done cross sales with them in the past and you can tell a lot about an agent when you do a cross sale. I had also viewed many of their listings over my tenure as a Realtor and I believe they shall be missed. I know they...
03/31/2009
After 10 years in the business I am still refining the art of the Open House. Don't get me wrong I have had very successful Open Houses over the years however I still get skunked from time to time. I don't scrap my whole concept I refine the way I conduct, advertise, and even greet at each Open H...
03/31/2009
I think this is one of the best way to take care of our economic crisis and I believe it would be a lot cheaper than the the trllions we're spending right now. One of my baby boomer accountants sent this to me to consider... Patriotic retirement: There's about 40 million people over 50 in the wor...
03/28/2009
I work with several elderly people on fixed incomes. I drop by from time to time, not so much as a Realtor but as a friend. If a light bulb is out or they need something else done, I do it. My feeling is we all have one thing in common and that is we will all get older or die trying. One of these...
03/25/2009
I had lined up my showings the day before as usual when my client calls and wants to add one more house to the mix. I look it up and find that the house is vacant and tell my client it shouldn't be a problem however the agent requests I call before showing. I called the agents direct line, no ans...
03/24/2009
Having elderly clients, I try to help whenever I can. This client was in her early eighties and her family felt she would sign a purchase and sale agreement for a dollar if she liked their smile. My job was to be at every showing and protect her. The first showing went well even though; my client...
03/23/2009
I was thumbing through my local website http://activerain.com/states/WA/cities/Dupont and found some interesting information. There are three posts recorded from an agent who no longer is an agent in the State of Washington. I found an agent who; Violated NWMLS posting rules Violated RESPA rules ...
03/22/2009
Photo taken by Paul S. Henderson, ABR, CRS, GRI, SRES, Realtor® with RE/MAX Professionals Lacey, WA., provides enhanced levels of real estate services to home buyers and sellers in the cities of Dupont, Lacey, Olympia or Pierce, Thurston, Mason, and Kitsap counties. Visit my website at (http://p...
03/22/2009
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I often hear the horrors of displacing the kids. It is made more difficult when it happens during the school year. I myself was pulled out of school only 2 weeks after school began. I was 14 and going into the 9th grade at my old junior high school, 2 weeks later I'm in high school, 100 miles awa...
03/21/2009
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