I’m glad you are an Activerain addict, but please stop reading on your blackberry! I’m glad to be a judge in this contest and I’ll be the first to admit now that I may be an addict, but I have one simple request. That request to you other addicts and that is you have to stop reading my blog on y
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01/11/2011
This is what some of us need to consider when we write a post “You only get one click, make it count”. Now, what does this mean? If you think about your post, what is your goal? What do you mean you didn’t have a goal when you started writing the post? If you don’t have a goal for your post othe
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01/11/2011
There are many Short Sale homes for sale in Beaverton, Oregon. The fact is, there are 234 at the time I write this post. Why are there so many? Well the main reason is that a lot of the times short sales take longer to negotiate because of the banks and their short sale departments. But, that do
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01/10/2011
Todd, why do you need to call to schedule a showing on a vacant home? Yes, the home is vacant, but sometimes the showing instructions require you to still call the owner or the listing agent prior to showings. This could be for many reasons, in some cases it could be because from time to time an
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01/09/2011
Many times the seller is the one that wants to cancel a listing with an agent in Beaverton and that is how I get a lot of my listings, I’m the second agent. But, how often does it happen that I’m the one doing the firing? One of the questions I’m asked when I take a listing is, “How easy is it t
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01/08/2011
Often during the winter the kids feel cooped up and in Tigard and all of the Pacific Northwest there just aren’t a lot of days you can go out to a park during the winter. (It is just way too wet) So, when you get two days in a row of sun and the play structures dry out and the ground is frozen
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01/07/2011
This chart below breaks down Beaverton Oregon Real Estate homes sales by neighborhood, for the week ending 01/07/2011. Here is a breakdown of real estate homes sales in Beaverton, Oregon for the week broken down by neighborhood. Just click on the link to your neighborhood for the complete breakd
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01/06/2011
This chart below breaks down Tigard Oregon Real Estate home sales by neighborhood, for the week ending 11/07/2011. Sales have been off since last year but, but still there is hope on the horizon as more and more buyers are realizing the deal that are to be had because of falling home prices. Her
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01/06/2011
On January 3rd, 2007, I joined Activerain with no fanfare, no comments, not even a “Hi, how are you doing?” In fact, was it was some 10 posts later before I got my first comment. I was struggling, I wasn’t sure this was the place for me. I came from another blogging platform, it was more like a f
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01/06/2011
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend here on Activerain, and that is at the bottom of a lot of posts there are some follow me buttons and one of the two biggest are Twitter and Facebook. Now, most people seem to be keeping up on Facebook, because their friends demand it. But, why oh why would you tell
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01/05/2011
