Eric Michael's (ericmichael) Blog

Surviving Your Serengeti- More Than Just A Book Life. Sometimes easy, Sometimes difficult. Always a challenge. I read about a challenge on ActiveRain's real estate community. Surviving Your Serengeti: ActiveRain Challenge, a book by Stefan Swanepoel. Here's what you do... Download the first 2 cha...

Garage Door Repair Video Hi again Everyone! I just got home from the grocery store and when I opened my garage door, I heard a loud *Bang* when it hit the top. Looks like it opened too far. So, what does a non-garage door specialist do? You guessed it... YouTube! Well, I haven't figured out how t...

Lowest and Highest Priced Homes in Livonia, MI Hi Everyone, This is just an update/recap of a couple of previous blogs. I'm sure you'll remember them. If not, links to the original blogs will be listed below. The cheapest house in Livonia, MI, (as of 1-11-2011) was $11,000. I small HUD home, grea...

The Unknown Phone call. Hi Everyone. Today was my Lucky day. Started out normal, but if I would've known the treats I'd be offered later in the day, I don't think I could've slept last night. (I didn't sleep much, actually, but that's a different story.) So, written across my iPhone for the Third...

Metro Detroit Home Sales for January, 2011 The latest statistics are out for January, 2011. Sales were as follows: ALLMLS: 4,022 (.2% down); Detroit: 385 (18.6% down); Livingston: 148 (0.7% down); Macomb County: 632 (4.8% up); Oakland County: 1,117 (4.0% up); Wayne County: 1,368 (2.9% up). To se...

Google Alerts Test: Linking back to my website, www.EricMichaelOnline.com I set up my name, Eric Michael and "Eric Michael" on Google Alerts about, oh, 3 weeks-ish ago. Most of what they "Alert" me to is stuff that has nothing to do with me. Except twice. Once, I was "Alerted" that I posted a blo...

Eric, What Are We Going To Do? These words make my heart sink. More than likely they'll come from an angry homeowner that doesn't know what to do. Someone who is scared to death, wondering what's going to happen to their family. What will their friends and family think? Where will they go? What w...

What Do You Want From Me? We've spent Years together, or so it seems. And now you're going to tell me to leave? You're going to take everything I've given you, every piece of advice, my blood, sweat and tears? My Time? My Money? My Life? Well, maybe not my life, but certainly a part of me. I've d...

IMAXprinting.com, Southfield, MI. Hi Everyone. I want to tell you about a company. IMAXprinting.com. I've been looking for a printing company to print up some postcards for me and a colleague of mine told me about IMAXprinting.com. Looking at their website, I was amazed at their prices, but becau...

Hi Everybody! With all the downtime on AR lately, I've actually gotten a few other things done. (AR, I'm not complaining, just saying.) Talked on the phone with another AR member for what, almost 2 hours? Very cool. Made a few more friends/contacts in this game of real estate on FaceBook. Spent s...