Dave's Real Estate Recital

Been thinking about all the good things I have -- counting Life's blessings you might say. My Wife, My Daughters, Their Health, My Health, Our Freedom, Those Willing Souls Who Sacrificed Much if Not All So We Could Have It, Our Good Friends, A Cool-in-Summer, Warm-in-the-Winter, Dry Place to Slee...

We've all heard and said it: "Yup, time sure does get by fast." A cogent observation indeed. Time is probably the single greatest gift and resource any of us have and yet how often to we loose track of it, and look around wondering where it went. I propose that a better question to ask is, "How d...

I responded to Bryant Tudas' post "Looking at the Past to Predict the Future" this morning, which is re-post of one he wrote back in '06 expressing some concern about the wisdom of perhaps being a bit too aggressive in our sales efforts, and thereby contributing to future problems for clients who...

Just wanted to pass along a warning for all my fellow AR types out there. Recently I was going through my emails and found one alleging it was from CNN proclaiming "Nicolas Cage Dies in Freak Accident". Well, he being one of my favorite actors, and absolutely without thinking, I clicked on the li...

Is it just me in Prescott, Arizona or have any of you folks out there had it "up to here" with finding the phrase "to be determined in escrow" in the Property Identification section of a purchase contract? Let me tell you another story. Several years ago, a friend of mine who was a pretty new age...

My Dad owns a Schrade-Walden pocket knife. It's nothing fancy, just a simple little 3-bladed folding knife, and being a patient and meticulous man, he has always kept a razor edge on it. As a boy, I greatly admired that knife and the care Dad gave it. One day as he sat in his living room chair ho...

I periodically teach a class on making escrows "bullet-proof", entitled "Transactional Kevlar". (For all you non-military/non-law enforcement types out there, Kevlar is the stuff they make bullet resistant vests from) In the intro of that class I hasten to point out that there are bullets that wi...

I read a good post from Paul Campbell in Lexington Kentucky earlier today wherein he inquired about ways to approach FSBO's -- especially those who really don't have a feel for how to price their homes. After I finished sending him a comment, I got to thinking that there's more to say on the subj...

A while back, I was sitting on the side of my bed around 10:00 or 10:30 one night, pulling off my boots. It had been a long day and I was looking forward to my head hitting the pillow. About halfway through that process, my cell phone rang. Glancing at the caller I.D. I saw that it was one of my ...

We've been having so much success with this, I wanted to share with the AR bunch in hopes that it'll do some more good out there. I know most of us, if we've been doing this any time at all, have experienced, in one form or another, the "Ho-Hum Open House." You know, that's the one where you bak...