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Lessons Learned From 2011. By Dan Polimino.
Here we are at the end of the year. It’s always a good time to sit back and reflect on the past year. I also like to make a quick list of the lessons I have learned over the last year in Real Estate. Here are a few of the most notable. 
1. I learned that the days are long, but the years are short. I spent a fair amount of time wishing days away in 2011. Then I look back and it seems that the years have just flown by. I am trying not to make that same mistake in 2012.
2. I learned at 43 to listen more and speak less. This one lesson has served me better than anything else.
3. I learned that there is no harm in asking. Just when you think there is no way a buyer or seller will move one more penny…they do. So I tell my clients, ”What is the harm in asking since all they can say is ’no’?”
4. I learned that you could have the best data in the world and most convincing argument, and at the end of the day the real estate transaction boils down to one ... more

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