Time for another tale from the dark side.My intrepid buyers have been faithfully bidding on property for nearly a year now, coming up against the infamous, "highest and best" bidding process in numerous offers. Well, recently they won, "won" being a relative term. I have to question the bank's
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03/30/2008
The Coca Cola Company put out one of their most famous advertising campaigns when they switched from, "Things go better with Coke" to, "It's the real thing." Who would have thought that would be better? It was all about the song, its message and how we were feeling at the time - January 17,1981
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03/28/2008
REALTOR; Heck of a day yesterday, heck of a day today. Deals coming together, deals falling apart, deals on hold. Seminars, meetings, eat, sleep, you get the drill.SISTER/AUNT: Everything was PROMISED to be OK just 2 days ago. My brother and his wife had a baby on March 10th; they had known
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03/20/2008
Last Tuesday at our sales meeting, our team leader surveyed the room and in typical fashion asked if anyone had any success stories. A few hands went up and stories were relayed. We murmured our congratulations and then I raised my hand to report that I had written five buyer deals in the previ
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03/18/2008
Today is St. Patrick's Day. Given that my father had nothing but Irish blood in him, despite being a few generations deep here in the United States, St. Patrick's Day was a celebratory time. Always a singer, his Irish songs started creeping in and repeating probably right after Valentine's Day.
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03/16/2008
I changed my laptop background today. Actually, I am so low-tech that I had my 15-year-old daughter come and help me do it. Someone told me yesterday that if I am blogging, I am not low-tech. Heck, blogging is just talking, and those who know me well know I can do that really, really well. (F
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03/12/2008
Today was inspection day for a condo I am selling to an out-of-state investor. No catastrophes noted, just needs paint and carpet, all new doors and lighting, kitchen updates, two new bathrooms, and maybe a new heating unit - but we knew that going in and the offer price reflected it. Somehow I
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03/08/2008
Has ANYONE ever heard that? I know when I was growing up in the dark ages, I thought I had two choices, a teacher or a nurse. That was if I aimed high and went to college. The other options included clerical work if I went to business school, with secretaries being highly prized - I think exec
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03/05/2008
First let me define the title.Fiddlers ReStrung is a Saline, MI high school group of select musicians who perform under the guidance and regulations of Saline's Community Education department and Saline Area schools. Audition is mandatory and many do not make the cut. It is not a club, though a
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03/01/2008
The title of this piece is a quote from my husband, circa 1990, I'm guessing, when we were in such dire straits financially that we had 20 cents in our local savings account. I am not kidding. When the savings statement came from the bank, my husband looked at it, uttered those words, and conti
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02/29/2008
