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2008
I must admit, I am having trouble keeping up with the Growthleader leads. Not too much trouble. It has actually been quite good. Once, twice, maybe even three times a day, I get the text message alerting me of a new prospect. Another individual has registered to my website www.ServingNaperville....
11/26/2008
I just read a post written by the ever titillating Cherimie Crane titled "The Morning After". In it Cherimie writes of her recent speaking engagement at a marine base in her town of Beaufort, South Carolina. She was nervous at first. Speaking to 60 uniformed marines would make me nervous too. Bu...
11/26/2008
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They were a nice young couple. I picked them up at the train station on Rte. 59 in Aurora... It was Friday morning. The weather was cold, but the sun was shining bright. A great day to show homes. We would be seeing several homes priced in the low to mid 200's. They were in from Virginia, and...
11/24/2008
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I was driving the black Lincoln Town car home from the airport last Sunday. I was driving my passenger, a dentist, to his home in Bolingbroook... It has been months since I last drove a limo, but my buddy Chris needed a driver, and I can use the cash. "How did you get into real estate?" the dent...
11/22/2008
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After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1990 with a degree in finance, I followed my two brothers into a job as a stock broker. It was fun at first.... Even as a $5 per hour "caller", it was exciting to put on a tie, take the train down to Chicago, and walk into the financial sector w...
11/21/2008
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I recently made a new contact with a mortgage broker at Chase Bank here in Naperville. New contacts are always good. He was having his first child this November. He was excited. He had called me from one of my newsletters. I had been marketing his neighborhood. Anyway... He was excited to ho...
11/20/2008
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I have written about the imbalance of supply and demand in the housing market for several months. Today, the supply of homes on the market far outweighs the demand. As a result, home prices must come down. They must. And they have. Prices will continue to drop as long as there are more homes to...
11/18/2008
I currently am working on a few deals as the buyer's agent.I find it interesting when the listing agent I am negotiating with finds the need to tell me how great their home is. Afterall, I know what the house is like. I was just in it...And I am not buying it anyway.I don't care what the seller...
11/18/2008
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Despite a fair amount of Irish blood pumping through my veins, I wasn't raised as a Catholic. Do I have to be Catholic to suffer from Catholic Guilt? I have always felt "bad" for things, even when I haven't done anything wrong. I sometimes feel guilty when I am just doing my job. I feel that wa...
11/16/2008
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So here I am. It's Saturday. 1:23 PM. November 15th. I am at an OPEN HOUSE for my new listing. I took the listing two weeks ago, a short sale on the south side of Naperville. I am pleasantly surprised how nice the home looks today. A few lit candles. Lights are all on. A cold cloudy Novem...
11/15/2008
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