David's Thoughts, Tirades, Rants & Blogs!

For anyone out there left in a booming market (I'd love to know where), I'd like to share a technique we used to get our offer accepted over other offers. (it can actually be used in any market condition)Aside from the usual, making our conditions outstanding, we would contractually make a portio...

We had a church for sale for over 2 years.  We sold it 20 times but it fell through each time, either because of financing or because of its deplorable condition. (the roof was missing & the interior demolished)  After 2 years on the market, my associate suggested that I buy it & that the Sellers...

Today, as I drove home to Fort Lauderdale from Fort Myers (a very boring stretch of straight, flat highway with nothing but Everglades swamp on both sides) I got an opportunity to listen to my eclectic collection of iPod music. (I'm going somewhere with this, I promise).  I heard "great toons" by...

I don't own or have an interest in this site, but I've had great success using it and I wanted to share it with you.  It's www.junkbusters.com .  Their site boasts "Bust the junk messages out of your life"!  I used the site for junk mail and saw an unbelievable reduction in the amount of stuff I ...

Shuttle Atlantis launched today without any major issues! The question is, why doesn't Nasa sell advertising on the shuttle to offset the tremendous expense of these launches at taxpayer expense! I believe they do charge to bring up satellites for private companies. Imagine the Nike logo along th...

Ok. Here's another one for the "diehard Rainers"! Do you prefer shorter, precise and concise blogs or the longer, sometimes really long blogs? Do you just read them all? Pictures or no pictures? How about repetitive content? I'm finding alot of material that's already been discussed over and over...

I'd love to know how much time the "diehards" spend on ActiveRain? What are you sacrificing to make time to blog, reply & read? What is your true motivation? Is it points, relationships or the quest for knowledge? Do you have your own blog? Have you noticed search engines indexing any of your blo...

Today I attended the first of a 6 day class to become a licensed title abstractor. (it's too difficult to do the affiliated business thing so I'll just do my own thing!). I was amazed at how much of what we believe is ok to do, is really illegal in Florida.  I suspect all or most states have simi...

Today I took 4 listed properties off of the market.  My attitude is that if they don't play nicely in my sandbox or kick sand in my eyes, I'm getting out of the sandbox! They will become someone else's problem! There are just too many available properties in this marketplace to waist time with di...

Last night, Katie Couric hosted a show on Terrorism.  The question was "Are We Safer?"  The prevailing theme (at least what I got out of it) is that we are not safer!  The government (according to Bush) wants us to feel safer, yet Bush conceded that "we" need to be right 100% of the time, whereas...