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I Am Going to Have a Great Year in Real Estate - I Know, My Fortune Cookie Said So

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Real Estate Agent with Retired

I went out for sushi the other day and as I was finishing up a mixed plate of nigiri and maki the server left my bill and a fortune cookie. A fortune cookie at a sushi place you might ask? Well, it was Hibachi Grill and while they do serve a very large assortment of sushi, the are also a Chinese buffet.

Anyway, this was on of my more promising fortunes. It read

Fortune

Do you think I still need to go out and lead generate?

William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

 

Jan 20, 2011 09:12 AM
Tammie White, Broker
Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN
Franklin TN Homes for Sale

That is too funny. I'm hoping 2011 is a good year for all of us.

Jan 20, 2011 09:19 AM
Lenn Harley
Lenn Harley, Homefinders.com, MD & VA Homes and Real Estate - Leesburg, VA
Real Estate Broker - Virginia & Maryland

HA!  I've gotten fortune cookies in Sushi restaurants too.  I love nigiri and maki too.  My favorite sushi fish is mackeral. 

Of course, I'm sure the fortune cookie referred to real estate investing in China.  Could be!!

Jan 20, 2011 09:45 AM
Melissa Anderson
Be My Neighbor Mortgage - San Antonio, TX
Your Texas Lender

I think you are going to have a great year because you have earned it :)

Jan 20, 2011 09:59 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life

Saunders - I think my dream job (one of many) would be to write the fortunes that come in those cookies.  I really hope you do have a wonderful 2011 in Real Estate~!

Jan 20, 2011 10:01 AM
Jason Crouch
Austin Texas Homes, LLC - Austin, TX
Broker - Austin Texas Real Estate (512-796-7653)

Mike - I love it when I get one like this that seems oddly specific.  My wife actually told me that we were expecting our first child by using a fortune cookie.  True story.

Jan 20, 2011 10:22 AM
Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP
DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX
Selling Homes Changing Lives

Mike,

This is your fortune! This was YOUR lucky day! You need to begin lead generating at that restaurant and have that fortune cookie paper turned into a badge you wear next to your name tag!

What a great fortune cookie!!!

Jan 20, 2011 11:04 AM
Bob "RealMan" Timm
Ward County Notary Services - Minot, ND
Owner of Ward Co Notary Services retired RE Broker

Mike, I think you need to concentrate on stocks and that way you will more then double your fortune.

Jan 20, 2011 01:54 PM
Richard Weisser
Richard Weisser Realty - Newnan, GA
Richard Weisser Retired Real Estate Professional

Mike...

Wow, that's a pretty specific fortune you got in that cookie!

Jan 20, 2011 03:13 PM
Mike Saunders
Retired - Athens, GA

Bill - thanks

Tammie - keep it positive

Lenn - mackeral is actually one of my least favorite nigiri

Melissa - thanks, hope yours is fantastic

Sardi - I believe that many are written somewhere close to you, and a wonderful year to you

Jason C. - did she have it especially made?

Patricia - interesting concept, the fortune cookie badge

Bob - my stocks have been doing somewhat well of late, so, if the fortune is true.....

Richard - not the usual applicable to anyone kind of fortune

Jan 20, 2011 04:10 PM
Teral McDowell
Referral Patners LLC - Murphy, TX

I am going to do better in 2011 because my heart tells me so...and it's been a great start already.

Jan 21, 2011 06:43 AM
Mike Saunders
Retired - Athens, GA

Teral - now there is a good reason to believe that it is so!

Jan 21, 2011 09:00 AM
Mary Lockman
Windermere Real Estate Methow Valley - Winthrop, WA
Methow Valley Real Estate

Stocks are doing great, and  stop losses can protect from a turn in the market, but what is the stop loss mechanism for real estate?

Jan 22, 2011 04:07 AM
John Mayer
Oikos Realty, Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach Florida - Cocoa Beach, FL
Your Beach Area Expert

Mike - Everyone here at AR should be so lucky to get a fortune cookie like that :-) Good luck in 2011!

Jan 23, 2011 05:43 AM