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2009
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Do you remember all the way back to your first purchase of a home? You probably weren't a Realtor back then. It was a roller coaster of emotions Do you remember how nervous you were... about EVERYthing? * What should we offer? * They haven't gotten back to us! * They countered at full pric...
10/14/2009
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the media tells you, ad nauseum, that sales in our area (the United States) are moving at a Snail's pace. Very little is selling, they say, and when it does it takes months and months to sell. I wrote an offer for a foreclosure property on Saturday. The property had been on the market for about ...
10/13/2009
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For those of you "jonesing" for a new Michael Jackson song... they are now releasing the first "posthumous" single by Michael called "this is it". It is, of course, followed immediately by controversy as renowned singer/songwriter Paul Anka steps forward to announce that he and Michael wrote th...
10/13/2009
Ladies and gentlemen of the rain. This post, by a relative unknown here on Active Rain, was just that good, that I thought it bore repeating. Study it carefully. Memorize it. It will come in handy one day. (or maybe more than one day). I had to spend a bit of time thinking about the subti...
10/12/2009
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Okay... the remarks to the left, state that an offer "accepted by 10/15/09" will receive a $1,000 Agent Bonus. (which true to my word, if you've read me in the past, I will turn over to the buyers). This offer was posted in our local MLS. In our last "go-round" with the seller, they've indicated...
10/08/2009
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You know? It is what it is? At the end of the day! Whatever! According to a recently released Marist College (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) poll, 47% of Americans surveyed found the word "Whatever" (often pronounced WHAT-EV-ER) to be the most annoying expression in the modern English Language. It was...
10/08/2009
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I'm often a bit scared when exiting a Microsoft Word document and it asks me if I want to save any changes, of my 24 page document, when I swear I didn't make any changes at all. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means that this garment will never be clean. I hate being the one with the remote ...
10/06/2009
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Ladies and gentlemen of the Rain. Here is a list of random factoids that I have gleaned from the internet. I have not researched them carefully... they may be true, they may not... but many of them have the ring of truth. I publish this list here, just for entertainment value. Enjoy! The secon...
10/02/2009
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