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Gain more referrals by sending more cards

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:00 -0600

For anyone who send cards to business prospects or clients...I have found a great tool that will allow you to send a card to your entire mailing list with one click. It has a contact manager built in and allows you to be notified of birthdays or anniversaries 7 days before so you never forget to send the card. It also allows you to set the target date and will mail it automatically. You can also put your own pictures on the front of the card and on the inside along with text, use your own handwriting font, and send gifts with the card. I use this for my farm areas and my SOI and it's really working great. Go to the website for all of the details. Send Out Cards

SendOutCards has added a new card editor....

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:52:28 -0600

Hi All, I had talked with a few people about SendOutCards some time ago. I just wanted to let you know that if you want to try it out you can go to my website at http://www.sendoutcards.com/3056 and try it out. It's much more user friendly now, just like using a word processor basically. I use this program daily in my personal life as well as for my real estate business, and now it's just gotten easier to use. If you want to know more after viewing the website please send me an email.

Who needs to recieve a card from you today?

A Little History of Bullitt County, Ky

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:57:03 -0500

Bullitt County is located just south of Kentucky's largest city, Louisville. Bullitt County was created on December 13, 1796 from two counties, Jefferson and Nelson and was named for Kentucky's first Lieutnant Governor, Alexander Scott Bullitt. Settlers had already come to this area years earlier, due to the natural roads created by herds of buffalo, deer, and elk that migrated to this area for the salt found in the salt licks throughout the area. One of the largest salt making operations was started at Bullitt's Lick, which was found by and named after Captain Thomas Bullitt, who found it on a surveying expedition in 1773.

Famous frontiersmen Daniel and his brother Squire Boone were among many who followed buffalo and deer herds to the salt licks. Salt was very critical to the survival of settlers, Native Americans, and animals, and often sites of battles between settlers and Native Americans. Bullitt's Lick was the site of the first commercial industry in Kentucky-Salt Production. Serving Kentucky, Illinois, and tennessee territories, salt was shipped in barrels down the Salt, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers on to New Orleans. Shepherdsville then developed near the licks and became the county seat. The Wilderness Trail made a turn here in Bullitt County to the Salt Licks, becoming the first inland distribution system for commerce in the western frontier.

If you travel on I-65, Ky. Hwy 44, and or Ky. Hwy 61 while visiting Bullitt County, you'll be tracing parts of that historic trail that led from the Cumberland Gap, in the east, to Bullitt's Lick and on the Falls of the Ohio in Louisville. Salt, taken for granted today, was a precious commodity to pioneers. Fires kept row after row of huge black kettles boiling to yield a few bushels of salt each day, which was shipped by flatboats on the Ohio River and was sent from Pittsburgh and new Orleans.

Iron production was another pioneer industry in Bullitt County. Thirty-foot tall stone furnaces heated by huge quantities of wood and charcoal smelted iron out of the native rock ore twenty-four hours a day during the first half of the nineteenth century. Significant remains of the Belmont Iron Furnace still exists in the county. A massive "Iron Works" powered by a water wheel on the Salt River in Shepherdsville, made everything from nails to iron stoves used at Shaker Village at Harrodsburg, Kentucky and, it is said, the first railroad rails west of the Alleghenies, were made here.

Bullitt's natural resources, especially timber, suffered greatly at the hands of this early industry. The huge quantities of timber it took to fire the kettles used to boil salt water into salt, and for the furnaces used to melt ore into iron, created a demand for wood that virtually stripped the land of trees. After a century of this industrial development both the salt and iron industries faded. In 1929 a successful business man and visionary formed The Bernheim Foundation and purchased over 14,000 acres of land to allow it, lovingly guided along the way, to return to natural forest. Today Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is internationally recognized for its work with native-habitat rehabilitation and its unmatched collections of native species plants and trees. You can see native flora and fauna and learn about the evolution of this area since its earliest history.

About the end of the 18th century there was another industry emerging and it wasn't long until another Kentucky product was being shipped through the same routes in Bullitt County. The Beam Family discovered the smoothness of the limestone water in the Clermont area and began making Jim Beam Bourbon. Today, after more than 200 years of continous operations, the Jim Beam Distillery at the American Outpost produces among the finest and most popular bourbons in the world.

From 1826 to 1870 Paroquet Springs, near Shepherdsville, was one of the most noted health and pleasure resorts in the South. People came from far distances to partake of its rich mineral waters that were thought to be very healthy, and to luxuriate in the superior accommodations of the day. The modern day Paroquet Springs has been reborn as a fresh and attractive new conference center.

Today, rolling knobs, lakes, rivers, and forests in the area offer plenty of opportunity to get back to nature...all within close range of I-65. There is fishing, horseback riding, bird-watching, camping, and hiking. Rapid residential and clean industrial growth tempered with a growing reawakening to the history and ecology of the area. This fascinating area of Kentucky still has the same historic roads that led the westward movement and dispersed our resources and products.. Today those same roads lead to many regional attractions Louisville, Bardstown, Elizabethtown, and Radcliff/Fort Knox, and disperse commerce throughout the nation. Travel at a modern pace, or take scenic back roads following the Wilderness Trail, Country Music Trails, Bourbon Trail, and Civil War Trails. You can find trail maps at Paroquet Springs Conference Centre.

FOR SALE: 275 Hare Lane in Mt Washington, Ky

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:23:14 -0500

Welcome to 275 Hare Lane

275 HARE LN

MLS#:1200809

$143,900

Beautiful 3 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath Ranch with Basement on a Cul-de-sac. Main level has living room, eat-in kitchen, Master bedroom w/ master bath, 2 bedrooms and another full bath. The finished basement has a spacious family room, and full bath with stand up shower, laundry room and another room that could be made into another bedroom, exercise room etc…Total of approx. 2240 sq.ft. of living space, plus back deck and outbuilding.

Directions: Old Bardstown Rd to Flatlick, R on Clear Creek, R on Hare Ln

For More Information Contact:

DAVID CUNNINGHAM
CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE PLUS

Office Ph: 502-957-2121
Cell: 502-296-8935

Agent Email: david.cunningham@century21.com
Agent HomePage: http://www.DavidACunningham.com

BRAC

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:08:37 -0500

Hi All, Has anyone had any clients that are involved with the Defense Base Closure and Realignment? I serve a local area of Bullitt County, Louisville, and Elizabethtown Ky that is close to the Fort Knox Military base. If you have any referrals to this area i'd be more than happy to help your client get relocated.

Send REAL Greeting Cards to your whole list with a single mouse click....

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:55:54 -0600

This is awesome at Christmas time...but i use it for my farming areas, my SOI, and all of my clients, as well as family and friends. The best way to find out how this works is to go to my website at http://www.sendoutcards.com/3056 and actually send a card on me. Just click the banner where it says click here to send a free card and Kody will start talking and walk you through the process. Let me know if you have any questions.

The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:42:38 -0600

Hi All! I've been reading this book by Stephen Covey and WOW!! If you really want to get a clear vision of where you are, and where you want to go....you have to grab this book and give it a read. But remember...to get the full effect you have to get the personal workbook that goes with it.

If you have already read this book i'd like to hear your comments on it... and if you run out and buy it, lets compare as we read along.

Talk to you soon,

Send Greeting Cards to your whole list with a single mouse click....

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:49:32 -0600

Hey All, Here is a tool worth looking into. Get the details at http://www.sendoutcards.com/3056 I use this for my clients and farm areas and it works great.

Prospecting

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:39:05 -0600

Hi All! I've been hearing a lot about people who are actually going into their farm areas and knocking on doors and having tons of success. Is there anyone here that can say the same? What are your opinons?

Send Out Cards

David Cunningham (Century 21 Advantage Plus) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:40:27 -0600