Full disclosure: this week’s missive is more for the consumer than for the realtor.  I can promise, though, that for all the realtors who read this, you’ll most likely find yourself saying or thinking something along the lines of “preach on, brother”, “testify”, “amen”, or “you got that right”.  With that in mind, I implore […]

It’s highly likely I’ve already written about this, but I’ll try to make it entertaining at least.  There’s a guy who works in our office who suffers from kidney stones – and from what he’s described, “suffers” might even be a little too tame a word for it.  As an aside, though, when you ask […]

Amongst the ads and emails we receive each day ranging from “how to lose 75 lbs. in 12 days by eating just Three Musketeers candy bars and milkshakes” and “the lessons learned from a dyslexic 1980s pop musician turned auto mechanic”, there’s an occasional gem that stands out and helps you look at life from […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post very similar to this – in fact, some aspects are identical – but I’m putting a slightly different twist on it to alter the perspective by a tad. Whenever I meet a real estate investor who likes to take the fix-n-flip approach, I always ask why they […]

On a fairly regular basis, you can fire up the computer and go to your favorite news site or flip on the television to seek out your favorite news channel, and you’ll come across a story about how the economy continues to improve – and, overall, that’s fairly true. However, that doesn’t mean that everything […]