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The Realty Blogging Book Club...Welcome...ROAR!

This post is for the Realty Blogging Book Club. Here we will discuss our future plans and keep in touch with other.

Our next book will be "Blog Wild" by Andy Wibbels. You may purchase it on line or at your local bookstore.

"Friendships make prosperity more shining and lessons adversity by dividing and sharing" by Cicero-44 B.C.

"Knowledge is not power. It is the implementation of knowledge that is power" by Larry Winget.

"A successful individual typically sets his NEXT goal somewhat but not too much above his last acheivement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration" by Kurt Kewin.

Posted by "The Lovely Wife"...Broker Bryant's Wife... on 02/23/2007 01:23 PM

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Originally posted at: "The Lovely Wifes" Blog....: The Realty Blogging Book Club...Welcome...ROAR!

460 Comments on The Realty Blogging Book Club...Welcome...ROAR!

FEB

2007

There you go Ladies...It's all yours :)

TLW...ROAR!

A new room?!?!?!?

Thank you, TLW!

Ann

:-)

:o)

Cool, Less scroll-time!

Ladies...

On today's agenda is a decision that needs to be made...

I need to find out how many of you would like to take a book break?

I for one believe we all could use it. Please cast your votes...

So far Ann, Ines and Mariana are agreeable to this.

TLW...ROAR!

Thanks for the new post TLW!

I'm fine with taking a break.

Ladies...

That about wraps it up. We are taking a book break.

Ahhh. I need it :)

TLW...ROAR!

FEB

2007

<sigh> ... <yawn> ... <ouch> ... Had my braces tightened today. Going to bed to dream about blogging - again... I will order the book and be ready for the review whenever we start up again! :o) (ut oh, Was I not supposed to put a smiley there???) Oh well.

Mariana - hope you had sweet blogging dreams! That smiley post was pretty funny - who would take the time to write him a post to tell him to stop using smiley-faces in comments?? Goodness! There were alot of cute and funny graphics left in those comments!

Good Morning Ladies!!

Ann
ps - I'm loving not having to do so much scrolling on this, SO FAR!! ;-)

FEB

2007

Hi Everyone -

No one has been here for TWO days??? Maybe that means the markets have picked up and everyone's making money! That would be really nice!!

Everybody doing okay?

Ann

Hi Ann, I have been busy - business and family and a little blogging...

How are you doing?

Hi Mariana - I'm doing well, and very happy to see buyers in my area jumping back into the market. Yippee!! I've been working hard with several sets of buyers, and I put 2 of my listings under agreement in the last few days. And I'm still dealing with jury duty. I'm part of a jury duty pool for another 4 weeks. Makes for interesting scheduling when you don't know if you can actually keep your appointments or not.

Good to see you here!!
Ann

We are seeing more action in our market as well. Nothing MAJOR, but it is moving! I was at an ERA Shields 10k event tonight - I posted about an encounter that I had. Interesting.

FEB

2007

Good Morning Everyone!!

Mariana - you forgot to include a link to your post. ;-( I'll go digging and will be sure to find it, even if I have to dig to China and back!!! ;-)))

Ann

Hi Ladies!

Here's my latest post - Gimmick or Real. I have some buyers in a sorta slimy situation with a home warranty, and I'm curious what others think about these home warranties. I'd love to see what any of you think, and what your experience might be with these.

Many thanks!
Ann

Hello ladies - I have not been around in 2 whole days and can't even stay long now. I have to go to bed to catch up on my ZZZzzzzZZZZzz's - off to read a couple of posts and I will try to check in with you guys tomorrow. Goodnight!

Ann - congrats on the gold star! That perplexed me too - the warranty thing. I think it depends on the warranty company...? (Sorry I didn't leave a link... oops!)

Ines - Missed you! Hope all is well! Have a good night sleep!!

FEB

2007

I just figured out the HTML option on the ^ tool bar. Whoo Hoo!

Mariana - I saw that html button but don't know how to use it. Any quick tips? I saw your comment on the AR update post, that looked great but I couldn't figure out how to use it on my own. Thanks!

Ann
ps-- thanks for the congrats on the warranty post.....still working on getting that resolved for my buyers. UGH!!

Found this sign for TLW - are you here TLW??
Reserved sign Ann

I have not tried it ona post yet. Probabaly works the same. Here you go:

Write your comment.
Click on the HTML button. This will bring up a new box called the HTML EDITOR.
Find the word(s) that you want to alter.
Surround them with "tags" What is a tag? Here is an example, as I dont know how to explain it...

<font color=blue> This is the sentence that I want to be blue.</font>

(or choose another simple color NOT YELLOW please...) It will then look like this:
This is the sentence that I want to be blue.

<font size=large> This is the sentence that I want to be large.</font>

It will look like this:
This is the sentence that I want to be large.

Ann...

Thank you very much. I appreciate that :)

Glad to see you are all doing well. I'm starting to feel a little better about things. I am not spending as much time on AR as I used to. It was a good idea to get away from it for awhile.

I've been doing a lot of lurking and trying to regain my perspective.

I may not comment on your posts but please know that I do read them :)

Mariana...Thanks for explaining that. You saved us all some time...

TLW...ROAR!

Okay...

Now that I have played with HTML it seems to me that it is waaaaaay too much like work :)

TLW...ROAR!

kinda is ... but sometimes it is worth it?

Of course there are times when it is worth it...You know me...

I have been trying to avoid work on AR. I want my AR time to go back to being fun :)

Cherry? I'll take that. Yum. SVW.

TLW...ROAR!

Ah! Yes! FUN!

tomato - not much fun...

Hey Mariana - thanks for explaining that - I will give it a try and see what I can do with it. It looks simple enough the way you explained it.

This is a sentence like to be green.

Hey, it worked!!!! Now, to try size...

This is a sentence I want to be bigger.

Well, whaddaya know!?!?!!?!? It is a little work, and not sure without some help, I'll be able to do this again. What other sizes for fonts are there besides "large"?

Thanks Mariana!!

Anna Banana

WAY COOL!! I just used a tiny bit on my new post I just put up.....it is WORK, and all that gibberish you have to look at to try to use HTML - gives me a headache looking at it!! COOL!!!

Ann

Well darn, that didn't work. I had it in the edit window, but when I clicked to update, and then it came back up, the color was gone. GONE! I did it 3 times, thinking I'd done something wrong, but it just doesn't take when you click update. Wonder why that is?

Ann

I had the same issue with the posting part... Dunno why. It only works on the comment part? May have to talk to the AR Techies about that one...

kumquat

I got it to work just now in the comments, but just can't get it take in the post itself. I did send them a message letting them know it doesn't seem to be working, at least not for me.

Apricot

Hello ladies!! I have had absolutely no time to come chat with you or even read any posts - (I did read Ann's and Mariana's and Mark's contest features) - but I saw all this HTML talk from you guys and had to try it. Let's see:

YOU GUYS ROCK!

it took me a couple of tried, but I GOT IT!! thanks Mariana! What an awesome tool - now we have to find different fonts and other cool stuff!

Look at us! The Colorful Ladies of the Book Club Alliance!

There are other colors, but they have to be named via their "cross-platform" color number. For example - the color that I just used a shade of fuchsia, which I typed out like this:

<font color="ff00ff">Colorful Ladies of the Book Club Alliance!</font>
(Make sure you put in the parentheses.)

For a complete list of these color numbers, HERE is a link.

Apple

Oh! Here is a list of the colors that you can just call by name:

aqua blue fuchsia gray green lime maroon navy olive purple red silver teal yellow

how about orange?

I LOVE color Mariana, you made my day!

How'd I forget orange? Must be late...
I still do not know how to apply all of this to a post...

banana

I have complete and total confidence in you Mariana - please show us how - good night!

Good night!

MAR

2007

Good Morning COLORFUL Ladies of the Book Club Alliance!!!

I used orange up in the "Apricot" part of my last comment here last night - and I'm thrilled to see the link you included for us, Mariana, on colors! Yiippeeee!!!

I haven't been able to figure out more than one size, large, for fonts yet though. I tried 'larger' and 'largest' but those apparently aren't html words I guess. I tried playing around with one of my posts again, to try to get it to take in there, and still can't figure that out. Maybe our little Wiz Butterfly will be able to enlighten us today with that little treat!! ;-)

GOOD MORNING!!

Good Morning Ann- Glad your love the colors, too. Colors rock! :o) Heres one size that you could use:

<h1>heading1</h1>

heading 1

weird... If you look at it.. it looks different from edit to "submit"... huh? I wonder if there is a definitive rule book re: HTML and AR... ?

Ok- I figured out he HTML in the POSTS thingy... Can't be done, as far as my research has taken me. The HTML option is there so we can imbed video - that is all. I read a teeny tiny post that explained it:

HERE

OK - I just learned how to post videos from Jeff Turner - here it goes! OK....maybe I didn't - I think you can leave videos on posts, but maybe not comments?

Here's the link to the video I wanted to leave here for you girls (one of my favorites!)

I'm back...finally! Been crazy busy and I've missed all soooo much! I posted twice today this one here

and another one directed at consumers on my other profile. Hope you'ev all been well. I have a ton to catching up to do! I love all the colors you guys have going on.

Moni

Hey Monika - so glad you're back!!!!!! Got your courses all written and your classroom all pretty and ready to go??

Finished up what had to be done today and then sent off 3 courses to Maine to hopefully get Maine ce credits. My little class room is nearly all done...LOL how silly that sounds!!

ROAR...man is that thing loud!!!

MAR

2007

Happy Friday! It's gross here today - started as snow, then sleet, back to snow, then poured for hours and hours, and now the temperature is dropping and the rain is mixing with sleet. Our office staff is leaving now to head home since the roads are getting a bit icy. And that stinks because I have to show property in about an hour.......

You best be at home now, Monika!

Friday! Whoo Hoo! It is supper crummy weather here, too Ann ... ick... I hate icky weather as it really puts a damper on our sales. No one wants to go out. :o(

Monika! Nice to see you!

Hey check out Jay's Youtube thingy on crappy weather here in NH...he did great!

Ann you home yet? Tomorrow we're going to RI to a RV show...Kewl beans!!!!

Hey - I'm home! Not fun showing property in this yukky weather. I didn't encounter any ice, so that was good.

I saw Jay's video - he emailed it to me earlier today. I didn't know he'd put it up on a post. I'll go check that out.

You guys going to RI for the weekend, or you going and coming on the same day? Where in RI?

hello girly girls! I just wrote a quick post to release frustration....this blogging thing can be a good stress reliever.

MAR

2007

Ann...We're going to Providence just for the day. We're leaving around 10 and will spend the day looking a motorhomes and camping stuff. We're going with an other camping couple...should be fun!

Ines...I felt your pain in that post!!!

See you guys tonight!

sounds like fun Monika - enjoy!

MAR

2007

Good Sunday Morning Ladies!

It is a gloriously sunny morning here in NH - a bit chilly with a slight wind, but sunny and beautiful.

Monika - how was the RV show? Buy anything?

Ann, Pineapple for breakfast it would seem....

The RV show was very disappointing! They had only about 4 motor homes in the category we were looking in. Plenty of campers, pop-ups but hardly any big rigs! I was bummed! Afterwards we went to Berkley Ma to stop by Marty's RV and walk about his lot. Looked a few that were very very nice but WAY above our price range..nearly $400,000! Oh well we had fun anyway!

Hi Ladies - it's a local post, but here's my latest effort.... thanks in advance for any visits I might get... ;-)

Ann

I love you post Ann!!! Stratham is such a neat town. I did a consumer alert blog on the tax issue in NH..kind of boring but ever so important.

LOL...now I did a agent alert on our changes to Dual Agency

Kinda of boring...again! I need something fun to write about!!!

New Hampshire: New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.

Monika- Here are some sites that I found that may give you something more "fun" to write about ... Even though I do enjoy your posts regardless... :o)

http://www.hippopress.com/pubnote/pubnote05428.html - "... If you can believe it, it is against NH Liquor Commission rules to advertise, post in a place seen by the public or tell anyone over the phone that you, as a bar or restaurant, offer an alcoholic beverage at a reduced price. A bar can eventually lose its liquor license for that offense..."

http://www.angelfire.com/nh/secret/1NewHampshire.htm - "In New Hampshire, you can do whatever you want, if you don't get dangerously huffy about it... New Hampshire is run mainly by Republicans who tote guns. But they're kind enough to donate shelters to Democrats who escaped from Boston when Boston's real estate got too expensive for normal folks to live in."

That's pretty funy Mariana - those are some pretty strange taxes you have there in New Hampshire - I can't say much here, but they're trying to pass a tax change and elimitate property taxes all together and increase our sales tax to 8.5% - I am ALL for it.

The tax thing in NH is odd too. I like my sales tax and am fine w/ my $613/yr property taxes - but if we could get some decent road maintence out here, then I would love a tax increase...

Ladies...

Please see my response to Moni's newest post on dual agency. I have an idea for the teachers amongst us.

Also. Does anyone know which of our chat posts contains that list of 100 things to write about? Looks like we could use it right now.

TLW...ROAR!

Hi there! Mary left this link on on my Local Content Idea post in December. It IS pretty useful ... as far as coming up with things to write about.

Also, Sarah Cooper started a Localism Brainstorminggroup. I know that you Ladies, here, always have some great Localism posts - and I think that you could add a lot to this group, if you were interested.

After reading Moni's last post, I am off to spend Sunday evening with my insane but lovable family... G'Nite!

Those are really funny tidbits, Mariana!

Monika - where'd you get those license plates? I know those aren't your real ones - or they weren't last time I saw your cars! ;-)

I'm off to check out all the links i see here in these comments while I was out enjoying this beautiful sunny day with my honey bear! We drove down into Massachusetts and got some Mega-Millions lottery tickets....$360,000,000 +/- jackpot drawing tonight.

Somewhere I saved that list of 100 things to write about. If we still need it, I can try to find it in my bookmarks. I sure wish there was a way to organize our bookmarked posts.

Ann

OMG that was funny Mariana!

Ann..I'm looking for link for the plates...funny aren't they.

TLW gave me some great ideas for my classes! Very cool!

Yeah, I thought her ideas were great - you should run with those as I don't think any one else is teaching anything like that that I know of.

If you find the plates link, I'd love to have it. I love those!! Thanks....

Ann

MAR

2007

Here you go Ann...let me know if you still want the link

Hey. I want one of those too :-) Can I have a TLW one Monika?

Ladies....

Check out this post CLICK HERE We need to give Luke pics. I already gave him one...Go to the post and bring your best pic with you.

Trust me on this. I know. You do trust me :-)

TLW...ROAR!

Those plates are too cool! Do they have them for every state? or just New Hampshire?

Like this one :)

Actually your state had choices...like the the Challenger and a Manatee. NH only had the live free or die style.

Monika - that looks like Rick's plate! I have a University of Miami Hurricane's plate - they have some cool ones here like "save the reefs" and the manatee one is cute. Is there a website you can share with us?

Here you go....have fun with it. I made a bunch up...one for every mood :)

That Plate generator was very fun! From there, I found an error message generator... Here is one for TLW:

Error Message

You guys are such a hoot - I love the plat generator - thanks Monika!

MAR

2007

Well I went to visit at Luke's but I must have missed you all. I did leave a picture though.

Monike - thanks for that plate you made for me! ;-)

MAR

2007

Well now, where in tarnation is everyone anyway???

I am SO glad this week is coming to an end. Jury duty and real estate is too much at one time! And I've got ONE more week of jury duty to go........oh boy will I ever be glad when that's over!

H-E-L-L-O?????? Anyone there?

Ann

Hi Ann! I am just stopping by on my way to the store ... We all must be very busy - Whew! I have never done Jury Duty - I think I am too opinionated to be chosen. Dunno. I will be back in a bit ...

Hello girls! I have never done Jury Duty either.....I'm with Mariana. Off to a friend's surprise party...goodnight!

I know ... SO off topic, but I am in awe ...

MAR

2007

That's pretty wild Mariana! Off topic? from what exactly?

Oh my!! LOL...That is unreal. Do we we have a topic in here?

WOW - that's some video!! "Ding Fries Are Done!"

OK, so now I have to run out to my office for a quick few minutes and I might just have to go through McDonald's drive-thru, which is right across the street from my office!! Dang, Mariana!!

Ann

Hey Ines - HGTV has their "Open House Sunday" on right now, and one of the houses they spent a bit of time in was in Miami Shores. It's a house still undergoing renovations, owned by a couple - Victor and Amanda. Showed the improvements they've already made, and are still making - they're into their house for $1,525,000, and the agent told them that as is, it's worth $2,125,000, and when they're done with the improvements that they've still got going, it will be worth $2,675,000. They have what is a huge lot for that area, and it was a neo-classical style home. Do you know these people? It was fun to see their house!

Ann

Hey guys - Tonite on HGTV's House Hunters, they will be featuring one of our very own Rainers - Tony Kelly (#1 in Portland OR). Funny thing is I am interviewing them for next week's member Spotlight, so THIS should be fun! Glad you guys liked my off-topic video - I know, I know, off topic from what? I dont know what I was thinking ... !

I actually have to "work" a lot today, but since it is all computer work ... I'm bound to be around the Rain a bit ... :o) Have a great Sunday! Isn't Nascar today?

Ann - I don't know who those people are but would love to hear which house and agent it is. I hope it was on the water because there is no $2.6 million dry lots in Miami Shores.

Ding Fries Are Done :)

P.S. Sounds like someone has been reading to many of the 'fake rules' that other Bloggers keep posting about. There is no topic on this post. Comprenda? This is MY post. You can discuss anything you like. Just stay away from the female stuff. Wink. Wink. That's for your own good. SVW...

Hmmm. Com-pren-day? I may not have spelled that correctly :)

TLW...ROAR!

Ding! Fries are done! Rules?!? I dont need no stinkin rules! :o)

MAR

2007

Confession - I DID get a small McDonald's fry yesterday when I ran to my office. I HAD to after that special instructional video!! But my portrait just didn't quite look like his .....

Rules???
:-)

I put up my latest post this morning - it's a local post - but if you like to look at antique homes in this part of the country, it might be worth a visit..... ;-)

The snow is melting - YEE HAA!!!!

Ann

Almost 60 degrees here today, and SO MUCH snow melted today!!!! Yiippeeeeeee!!!

Ann

Hello everyone - here's a short post I just put up.

73 degrees here today Girls! ... Gonna read some of your posts then off to watch "The Riches..."

Gooseberry

MAR

2007

HEY GUYS! Paul Chaney - Realty Blogging author, wrote a post, here on AR thanking us for his books success. HERE - Check it out!

good eye mariana - thanks for letting us know!

So ... Thanks to the Codgers.... To make font size even larger - assign it a numerical font size:

<Font size=14pt>14 point font</font> will look like this:

14 point font

How did you get that from the Codgers, they told me they pasted it from WORD! I'm glad you figured it out!

MAR

2007

Hey Mariana - that french fry video you sent us was just on "Good Morning America" - 2 minutes ago!!!

It's supposed to get close to 70 here today - I can SEE my yard again!!!!

Off to read posts!
Ann

ps-- thanks for the font tip, Mariana!!

Ines and Ann- I cheated. I was reading the 100th featured post by BB and saw that they had this massive font, so I went up to "View" and then "source" on my browser toolbar. From there. I scrolled down through a bunch of HTML until I found their comment. I copied the HTML that surrounded their comment, and Wha La! I learned something new. SO, they probabaly just copied it from Word, but since I never have luck copying from Word, I did it using the numerical font that they accidentally taught me ... Yes. I am a dork. but I am ok with that.

Good Morning America? It IS a cool video, though, I must say. In fact, the artist is 31 years old and had his first exhibition and sold art when he was 10 years old. He does some brilliant portraits - you can find them on youtube: (Here Ines ... for the "Romantic" comment ... :o) )

That's pretty cool - coming from someone that can draw.

Look at all the fun stuff we learn here in this tiny little world of ours on this post - color, font size, french fry art, license plate art, fun sharing, etc. Wouldn't miss any of it for the world!!

Ann

Speaking of learning and sharing - are we going to be doing our new book any time soon? ;-)

MAR

2007

Hello everyone - I just wanted to share with you that I finally came up with our new website and blog name and hope you guys like it - everything simple and easy was taken here in Miami, it was a very difficult task. As you may know, we started with www.YourPropertyPros.com but learned the hard way that we need to spell it out and that it is too long. We share this so you don't make the same mistake.

So...are you ready?

The new site (it's not new yet...only the name) is:

WWW.MIAMISM.COM

OK, yes I'm strange - but it's catchy no? Iregistered all the misspellings of it as well: miamiism, miamizm, miamiizm

Ines- THAT, my friend, is BRILLIANT! Gonna go check it out, now.

Thank you Mariana - picking names is not my thing - look at my youngest son's name

MAR

2007

Cool Ines! I really need to think about changing mine but I'm clueless as to what to change it to! It is simply too long. Maybe I should buy the misspelled Monica as well??? any ideas? Currently it is http://monikamcgillicuddytrainer.com/

I had a tough week. Hurt my leg somehow but had to keep on going. Today I hope to rest it. I can not get up on my own or even get in my car...very painful! rotten timing!

Monika - I thought it looked like you were limping a bit Wednesday. I meant to ask you about it.

Some of my domain names are longer, but they're geographic names. And I ain't changin' 'em! ;-)
www.PortsmouthNewHampshireHomes.com is one of them and I get some good business from that one. I have a bunch of others, most I use as pointers, but when I come up with a decent name I just go buy it and hang on to it.

We have a BIG, supposedly, snowstorm coming our way today - 6-10 inches here for my areas. We'll see. But I am going to the store this afternoon after my lunchtime showings, just in case....I want to have some good food on hand if I'm to be snowed in for a day or so.

Ines & TLW - c'mon up for some good winter fun!! ;-)

TLW - I haven't forgotten you.......

I agree with Ann about doing geographic domains (and you can forward them to your site) - my farm areas are taken in every which way in Miami, so I had not chance there. As for Monika - not only is it long, but your last name is really hard to spell....it's almost as bad as Ines Hegedus-Garcia. I would definitely simplify it - for example, since our team is known as Rick & INes - we also have the domain www.rickandines.com (just in case).

Can you use something like: LearnRealEstate or realestatelearning - realtytraining - learnRE....just some ideas - reeducation - realeducation-educateforreal

Hmmm. I think i'll give Moni's domain site name some thought. I'm pretty good at this marketing stuff :)

Hope you feel better soon Monika. Sorry about your leg.

Ladies...It's time for one of those group prayers. Amen.

TLW...ROAR!

Thanks Ines but many of those are already taken. Realtytraining-training4u.. I'll check to see about the ones with learning in it.

Thank you TLW...My pain is pretty intense. I usually have a high pain tolerance level but this is too much.

Evening Ladies!!

Monika - WHAT did you do to your leg? Is this connected to when you fell awhile back chasing rats? Or sliding on ice? Or hiking a real while back? Have you gone to the doctor for them to look at it? Stay inside for the next day or so - no need to take a chance on slipping out in this mess.

It's still snowing here tonight. I think we may really get that 6-10 inches they were forecasting. So many times, they're just flat wrong, so we kinda ignore what they tell us. This time, they look to have been correct.

I just had a really unusual message come to me through AR - one of my HIGH SCHOOL teachers just emailed me from AR.

Monika - I hope your leg gets better soon - you can count on me for group prayers.

Ann - that's pretty interesting about your high school teacher - what did he say?

MAR

2007

Oh no, Monika- I really hope that your leg gets better.

Today is StPattys Day and my little one's BDay. It is about 70 degrees out and so we get to have his party at the park across the street from our house - Whoo Hoo!

Happy StPattys Day Ladies!

I'm still a hurting puppy! I have no clue what I did to myself but I can't even get up without help!!! OMG!

I did my 1st ever YouTube thingy...man do I sound weird! How shocking when you hear your voice and it sounds like a stranger! Here it is in case you want a good laugh.

MAR

2007

Good Evening Ladies!! I hope everyone had a great Sunday.......

Monika - how's your leg? I hope it's better by now. Wish some of this snow would really start melting.

I just did a new post on a seller I had to deal with who paid some small fee to get into the MLS....if you get a chance, I'd love to have you visit... this seller was not a nice person.

Anybody around?

MAR

2007

Hey Ann - I have been going crazy trying to locate that HGTV program "open house sunday" on-line to see what house they featured in Miami Shores. They don't even have the show in their website yet. I am sooo curious!

MAR

2007

Hi Ines - It was a Sunday, I think, when I saw it, and it was their "Open House Sunday" show that it was on. I just looked above, and saw that it was on the 11th. They didn't say who the agent was, but he did the CMA for them and the show to show how much their house had appreciated to that point, and how much more it would be worth when they finished their improvements. I remember they talked about how large the lot was that this house was on - much bigger than apparently most properties there. It had a pool, and the pool was high enough that without some landscaping, neighbors had good views of it. I can't remember much more except that it was a very big house on a pretty lot - I think they mainly showed the back part of the lot, if I recall. I think it was all on one level, but I can't say that for certain. Sorry I can't remember more than that.....

How's everyone's market doing? My activity has definitely picked up - multiple offers, and some over the asking price prices, too.

Ann

Things are picking up here too. The nice weather has really helped. We have been in 70+weather lately!!

It's picked up here a bit but nothing like what your having Ann....maybe soon I hope.

Ann - when you go into HGTV.com and search for Open House Sunday, they don't have much to show - I'll wait until they update their site.

Our activity has also picked up and have A LOT OF SHOWINGS.....hopefully offers will start rolling in soon.

Derek and Mariana Wedding Day 3/21/95 We have also had a HUGE increase in showings and a very recent double offer - very nice for a pre-foreclosure situation!

People are starting to move - MUST BE SPRING!!!

Today is our 12th Wedding Anniversary - but poor Derek is sick. Luckily our romantic Fondu reservations are for this weekend.

Here is a picture of us on our wedding day ...!

Yes- Derek has the long hair and I look about 12 years old ... (Dont even ASK me about the dress.)

Mariana - WOW - you guys look like flower children....were you? And you're right, you do look about 12 in that picture. How old were you then?

Happy Anniversary!!!

Ann

Thanks Ann! I was 20 and Derek was 22. Flower children? Well, kind of. About a year after this picture was taken, Derek shaved his head and I decided to have dreadlocks. I do not think the internet world is ready for a pic of THAT yet ... But we were vegan (no animal products at all) and we drove a 1968 VW Microbus ...

How cute is that! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! It looks like a picture from the 60's - I always laugh when I see my eyebrows from our wedding pictures. I love to see those changes through time.

Thanks Ines! I KNOW! I love to look back and see all that has changed in the past decade... It is amazing! I have changed a lot. What is good is that we both changed - and grew - together.

Mariana

Happy Anniversary to you both!!!! Love the wedding photo...did you say 12 years old?? LOL...how about 10????

Hope Derek feels better!!!

Thank you Monika! But when I was 10 I dressed like Cyndi Lauper ...

MAR

2007

LOL...Cyndi Lauper...I can just imagine that! Funny how we change over the years.

MAR

2007

Ladies...

Sorry I have missed so much. I have been swamped with work, work and more work.

I have popped in here to give you all the heads up.

When someone posts something that attacks another member and reprimands them they are violation of...

<The Active Rain Community Guidelines>

The guidelines are now on the bottom of every page of Active Rain. See the link down there?

It would be in your best interest not to involve yourself in these attacks. There have been several of them over the last few days. Please do yourself a favor stay away from posts like that. They create negativity on this site. The post that was featured this morning has been unfeatured. Why? Because we are obligated to report violations not blog about them.

TLW...ROAR!

Well, good morning (Afternoon?!?) Luckily I have missed all of that crizz-aPP on the posts. I have been very busy in work. In fact we have had 4 new listings directly from AR this month! WHoo Hoo! I love those calls ...

I hope that you ladies are all doing wonderful! Here is a little Saturday treat for y'all ...

Puppy or Chicken? (Very short ... but I died laughing ... Actually, I am typing this from Heaven...)

TLW - I think it's great to now have the guidelines on every page. I saw all that junk you refer to, and frankly, I didn't understand alot of it. Blog talk in the outside world just doesn't seem to be in plain English, so maybe luckily for me, I just didn't get alot it.

Regarding the comment you left on my "Unrepresented Seller" post, I was leaving it up there just long enough for Jay to see if he could get the IP address of that person to try to track them down. When he gets that, he told me to delete both that other comment and his, which I'll do. I did just send him an email to see if he'd had a chance to get it yet. It will be removed - it's rude and I don't want it on my post. Not even sure why that person chose to put it there anyway.

Thanks,
Ann

Hi Ladies - here is my 100th post......... please be honest and tell me if this is too lame. If it is too hokey, I'll take it down and do something else. I'm hoping people will think it's fun, but it may just be goofy instead. So tell me please. ;-)

Ann

MAR

2007

Ann...

I love your post. Dear stop being your own worst critic.

The post is creative and it is a wonderful example of how to get yourself a featured post :)

Your imagination was working overtime...

You done good :)

TLW...ROAR!

TLW- thank you! I am my own worst critic, that's for sure. I have been having fun with it!

Thanks Ladies for your support through comments, and for being here in this special place, too. ;-)

I loved that Jeopardy game and had a blast with it - when is the next one?

MAR

2007

Thanks Ines!! I've actually had several people email me wanting to know if I'm going to do another one at some point. I hadn't even thought about that at all when I did this one. But I certainly could, as I really had fun coming up with the things to include in this one. Some I came up with easily and others I just did some reading until I could find things that would make fun clues, without them being too deep and buried in posts.

Ann

I think your 100th Post is awesome! I feel kind of out of it... 1st no lap top and now a new one and away from home all at the same time. I think I probably know about 4 of your clues...LOL!

AH Monika - you SHOULD KNOW 6 at the very least - AT THE VERY LEAST!!! ;-)

And I gave a few clues out for some others - just gotta read the post again and then some of the comments containd some clues - from me and from some spunky AR folks........ Give it a good Lovely Lady Whirl!! ;-))

Ann

Monika - how come you're lonely in a hotel room?

Monika - I hope you know number 10 and number 26 :)

26?

ooops! it was 23! I'm glad SOMEONE was paying attention!

And she should also know 4, 5, and 6! And others as well. Put on your thinking cap, Miss Lonely in Her Hotel Room....

;-)

18 and 31 are pretty easy too!

What happened to Mariana's "Ah, hem! So is #4 ..."??? must be late at night - that was really cute Mariana!! I guess number 4 is also easy!

I went to edit it - because I saw that Ann had already mentioned it ... But hit delete instead of edit and just gave up on it...

THis is a great thing that you did here, Ann! What a great way to bring in your 100th post!

MAR

2007

You LOVELY LADIES certainly made it fun, and I so appreciate all the support we all have for each other! I had fun, and I'm really glad you all did, too!

So, what's next???

MAR

2007

Hey Ladies - wow, no one here for THREE days?!?!?!?

TLW - did you get your shiny new computer yet? Hope it runs like a top for you.

Ann

Ann...

Not yet. It turns out that Blog Boy is going to make me wait until my BDay. Until then I'm stuck with this piece of crap :)

TLW...ROAR!

TLW - just take his computer and let him use yours for a couple of days - You can't wait 'til August!

MAR

2007

Ines...

That will never happen. Seeing as how my April Fools Day post is what caused my computer problem Blog Boy won't let me any where near his computer.

I'm okay though. I'm running on a parallel system until Monday. I did put up an April Fools day post, however I had to do that through my email. I'll never do it again. Whoa. Not as easy as it looked. My laptop ate my real April Fools day post so I had to wing it :)

TLW...ROAR!

TLW - that April Fool's post is a HOOT!!!!!

Ann

APR

2007

Oh, Ladies! I have been a busy little bee lately. I have missed you girls, though. Hope you are enjoying your Sunday!

APR

2007

Girls...did you hear the news? Take a look at THIS and THIS

I'm still in shock a little - but really look forward to it - let me know what you think.

Whoo Hoo Ines!!! Congratulations! Are you going to have ANY time left to do RE?

APR

2007

Ines - I am SO excited for you!!! WOW - how cool is that???? How exciting! You know you have our support, and I'll be watching closely so I can learn from you as you learn from one of our idols......so be a great sponge so we can be sponges, too. ;-)

CONGRATULATIONS INES!!!

Ann