Lane's Blog - Looking out from the garage

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Real Estate Agent - Century 21 Results Realty - GA RE Lic # 282060
Luckily I have wi-fi, and can get online from the garage. If given a choice, that is where I am. Between MLS searches, arranging marketing, and pre-viewing homes, I will try to get in a little welder time, or at least clean some of the tools from the last wrenching session.

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2009 

Have you heard of the Eastern Continental Divide?  It is an imaginary line that runs right through the Norcross Historic District... and all of the rivers and streams on one side of this line eventually flow into the Atlantic... on the other side, they flow into the Gulf of Mexico.  I knew a lot ...
12/13/2009
This is a very important, but very misunderstood issue.  There isn't much being said about it in most of the media, but this is a big danger in the houses that have this defective product. Wellington Florida Real Estate News: Chinese Drywall- If You Have Chinese Drywall There May Be Help on the w...
12/13/2009
For many years about this time I have a conversation with my mother... and it revolves around "Coming Home for Christmas".  Up until the passing of my grandmother a few years ago, "Coming Home for Christmas" meant going up to Midland, MI... where I never lived.  After that, my mom would talk abou...
12/13/2009
I like free stuff.  Free stuff is good.  Good free stuff is better... Right now, Microsoft is running BETA tests on MS Office 2010.  And it is a public BETA, so ANYONE can download and install the total MS Office suite.  This includes: Word Excel PowerPoint One Note Outlook Access Publisher Info...
12/12/2009
Lawrenceville is the largest city in Gwinnett County, GA (pop. 29528 inside the city limits in July, 2008).  And it is the second oldest in the Atlanta Metro area, created by Charter by the the Georgia General Assembly in December 1821.  It is named after Commodore James Lawrence, Commander of th...
12/12/2009
The first "stimulus" package, now known and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (but lovingly remembered as Porkulus) was an absolute failure and waste of $787 Billion so successful that the Democrats are talking about doing another one.  Apparently, the act accomplished all that it set ou...
12/12/2009
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  What do you get when you take 9 real estate pros in 4 states, Skype, DimDim and a blustery Thursday?  Mini-Bar Camp... Half BarCamp, half accountibility group and half implementation assistance hotline, we "met" for almost 7 hours of hardcore tech and sales talk.  Four of us were in the Atlanta...
12/10/2009
And more importantly, why does it matter?  A little about Lilburn... Lilburn is a little city in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA, in southern Gwinnett County.  It is the home of Parkview High School and Berkmar High School.  And while the City of Lilburn has about 11,000 people (as of the 2000 Census....
12/09/2009
This morning my wife woke me up to tell me that her desktop computer wouldn't turn over.  She pushed the button, and nothin'... It is old, and although it has had a little bit of updating, it isn't going to get much money input because it just isn't worth it.  We knew it was likely a power supply...
12/09/2009
And I'm going to start off with two that aren't for WordPress, but that I use ALL of the time...  Zemanta - This is one of my "blogging assistants".  Zemanta searches for relavent photos for posts, while I am writing them.  It is a FireFox plugin, and functions on all of the WordPress blogs witho...
12/08/2009