As a home inspector, I often have the privilege of working with many people, not the least of which are:

• Realtors
• mortgage lenders
• bankers
• attorneys
• other home inspectors
• plumbers
• electricians
• heating and cooling technicians
• landscapers
• roofing contractors
• builders
• general contractors
• door and window installers
• garage door installers
• drywallers
• home improvement stores
• swimming pool and spa builders

Last night I read a blog post somewhere comparing ActiveRain to a library. Let's imagine the Internet as the main library and ActiveRain as your local city library. Imagine your city library having 159,732 users. Imagine your city library having over a million books in it, on every subject you can imagine -- real estate, humor, zoos, family, food, weight loss, weight gain, wildlife, pets, etc. Imagine as you enter and leave your city library, you meet people who have the same interests as you, live in the same neighborhood, need your help, or can help you.

If you work in, or on, real estate -- see my incomplete list above -- you should have a library card to the largest real estate library in the world. It's called ActiveRain, and your library card is called Rainmaker.

Your Rainmaker library card gets you much more than a book for a week. At the ActiveRain library you'll not only learn, but you'll have the opportunity to teach. You'll make friends, sometimes even going out to eat lunch with them. You'll learn about them, their family, their pets, their vacations, their cars, their hobbies, their politics, their humor....

As you make use of the ActiveRain library, the general public will sit up and take notice. They'll see that you recently checked out a book on loan modifications, foreclosures, credit repair, home inspections, plumbing, renovating a kitchen, and many, many other topics. They'll see that you recently wrote a book on loan modifications, foreclosures, credit repair, home inspections, plumbing, renovating a kitchen, and many, many other topics.

If you don't know how to make the best use of your Rainmaker library card, following are the titles and their Dewey Decimal link to 25 of the best books in our library. They should be the first books you check out with your Rainmaker library card.

1. "Benefits of your Rainmaker library card," by Brad Andersohn
2. "New library card users," by Brad Andersohn
3. "Library top users," by Brad Andersohn
4. "Preventing library card mistakes," by Brad Andersohn
5. "Playing music in the library," by Brad Andersohn
6. "Playing DVDs in the library," by Brad Andersohn
7. "Making copies of library books," by Brad Andersohn
8. "Your library staff," by Brad Andersohn
9. "Working with other authors and editors," by Brad Andersohn
10. "Finding the most checked-out books," by Brad Andersohn
11. "Making use of library searches," by Brad Andersohn
12. "Looking for specific subjects," by Brad Andersohn
13. "Increasing traffic to the library," by Brad Andersohn
14. "Are books a thing of the past?" by Jeremy Blanton
15. "Designing a dust jacket for your book," by Jeremy Blanton
16. "Creating picture books," by Jeremy Blanton
17. "Booklets," by Jeremy Blanton
18. "Autographing your books," by Jeremy Blanton
19. "Frequently asked questions about the library," by Jeremy Blanton
20. "Books and modern technology," by Jeremy Blanton
21. "Designing dust jackets," by Jeremy Blanton
22. "Supplementing your income with books," by Rich Jacobson
23. "Finding your book audience," by Rich Jacobson
24. "Improving your library," by Michael Thornton
25. "Creating coloring books," by Michael Thornton

Make use of your library. Make your library a place where people will come to get a heaping of help from you.

Get yourself a Rainmaker library card and make use of it!

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