Someone I know quite well is a Vietnamese immigrant, the nicest guy you could meet. Now he and his wife and small child are American citizens. He's built a good landscaping business but it's very mom and pop in size. It's just pop doing the work! He's great and everyone loves him. He wants to b
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07/23/2008
The time has come to take the grass out of our 1926 bungalow rental in San Diego. It's a cute house that is patiently waiting out this market and then she will be sold. The tropical backyard is wonderful, but the grass won't grow without constant watering and the front has similar problems. The
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07/19/2008
Although I am a Minneapolis (Richfield) native, I have lived in San Diego for 27 years. Yikes, where did time go!? I am traveling to Mpls. on Monday for business and will be there for the week, with some time to explore. I love and know the city well, and travel there about every year or two, bu
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07/19/2008
Dear Agents, I am making several thousand dollars each month doing BPOs. This in in addition to my full service brokerage work with listings and many active buyers. My list, which I have talked about before, is 173 active asset manager who assign BPOs and REOs. If you're intersted in free lists
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07/13/2008
It's not in my nature to call out a company so openly on a blog, but it's been a long time coming and I would like to share my experience with AgentImage.com with other real estate professionals, so you can use it (or not) when selecting your own web designer. At the NAR convention in October 200
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07/09/2008
I share this with anyone who knows and loves the Queen Anne Victorian. I have one for sale. Only five owners since construction in 1889, the current owner bought it from her father. Now she's a single mom and it's too much house for her and I have to get this sold for her this summer. It sits on
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07/07/2008
If anyone uses GoDaddy.com for domain registration, and a lot of people do, then you already know that there are a ton of codes for discounts on the initial purchase but rarely can you find any code for renewal discounts. They got 'cha! Not anymore ~ for now, I found a 30% off renewal code in Mar
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07/07/2008
Dear Colleagues, San Diego's open house entrepreneur. a friend of mine, has launched OpenHouseGenie.com. It's a site for real estate agents who want to place open house ads that are not $200 in the Union Tribune *outrageous pricing for open house ads, the UT* and for buyers who want to find them
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06/23/2008
Dear Colleagues, I do a lot of telephone and email coaching for free for those who purchase my $15 REO and BPO asset manager list. You don't have to buy my list to get help. If you need anything, please ask. Info @ green box homes dot com. Thanks! Kimberly Dotseth broker/owner GreenBoxHomes.co
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06/22/2008
Dear Colleagues, I was asked to do a BPO the other day and agreed to. I get many orders a day and sometimes I can't take them all because at a certain point they cut into my real work. But this one was a SFR bungalow in an area I work all the time. No addresses given but it was adorable: corner l
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06/20/2008
