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Evanston Real Estate, North Shore Real Estate
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2013
That's an excellent question, I'm so glad you asked! Many newbies (and lots of old-bies) wonder how they can get more exposure for their blogs, and thereby more activity... more comments and more interaction. One of the very best ways, within Active Rain, is to make sure when you post, you post t...
03/28/2013
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I entered the Get healthy in the rain, contest, and part of that is this final blog post. When I entered the contest, I had already lost 46 pounds from my 2012 New Year's resolution. At my mid-term report... I had reached 52 pounds. And as of this moment, I've only lost an additional 2 pounds f...
03/27/2013
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7 Reasons why your property sold! 1. Your property sold because it was priced-right. You were objective... you researched the comparables (or perhaps you actually "heard" your Realtor), and recognized that your castle wasn't worth what you originally thought it was worth. You readjusted your thi...
03/22/2013
I've had some success obtaining leads from Active Rain and other onlines sites. And one of the few commonalities I can point to, between all of those leads, has been that none of them... not a single one of the (other than referrals I've received from other agents) has been someone who's online ...
03/22/2013
Many people avoid hiring friends, who are Realtors, to represent them. The concern that has popped up, has been that they don't want their Realtor to know all their personal information. They don't want to share their finances, and are concerned that it will hurt the friendship, if the Realtor/f...
03/20/2013
Way back in the day when Realtors rode dinosaurs (of course we rode the finest Lexus-saurs, and Benzo-o-saurs) ... I began my real estate career. I remember feeling very much the novice. I felt very naked to the world... (damn, I knew I shoulda worn pants)... and knew just how little I knew. Fo...
03/19/2013
We are in the midst of some of the cheapest money we have ever seen, and will likely ever see in our careers. Our mortgage guy, Greg Schneider of PHH Mortgage, tells us, just this morning, that rates have turned back down... and we're seeing conventional money in the mid 3%'s... (around 3.5%)......
03/18/2013
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One of the questions I've been asked with some frequency, is "How do I import clip art into my posts?" So, here's a mini-tutorial in the "How To import graphics into your post, in 10 easy steps, or 1 really hard one! First... up in the copy-editor's "menu bar"... you see that little green box con...
03/14/2013
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I thoroughly enjoyed this one... the salesman says to the mini-van driver, "A way to make you comfortable with the Camaro is to put you behind the wheel". I don't think he realized just how UNcomfortable the salesman was about to become. - 54wanna do it again?
03/13/2013
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