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Several months ago, someone off-handedly observed that I don’t like to share the secrets of my so-called success. Maybe it’s because I’ve never felt...
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Several months ago, someone off-handedly observed that I don’t like to share the secrets of my so-called success. Maybe it’s because I’ve never felt...
Lending Tree is fond of advertising “when bank competes, you win.” Zillow took that model for its Mortgage Marketplace, which debuted yesterday, and took...
What you learn quickly when you’re a real estate blogger in the Phoenix area is you’re not lone. Last night I discovered another half-dozen...
Active Rain came at the wrong time Active Rain came into my life at precisely the wrong time. I already had committed to writing...
Changes in the brokerage scene News has been circulating the last couple of days about changes in the Phoenix real estate brokerage scene, though...
Perspective is a terrible thing to lose. This morning I was talking to someone about the number of real estate bloggers there are here...
As I was breaking my two-week-old rule of not working past 9 p.m. (something I can’t even blame on daylight savings time, since the...
I’m back. Maybe you didn’t notice I was gone. But I was for a bit, aside from comments to try and defend my unique...
I could try to explain the MOB mentality, but there’s a chance the MOB is insane. The above photograph was taking during UT’s annual...
As Benn, Lani and I were discussing the propensity on AG to discuss Generation Y and I continued to rage against I know not...
Ah, a title that will past muster with Mr. Rosales … always a good start. Now if I only can find a way to...
This was a big week in beagledom, what with Uno winning top honors at the Westminster Dog Show. If there had been an obese...
Seminal moment: learning that Kurt Cobain had died, then spending most of the next couple of hours on the phone with my friend Tracy...
photo source: Mike Hippie No, not those debates between donkeys and elephants in red and blue states. The great debate in the Phoenix real...
photo credit: Enrico Fuente Noticed this one on Jim Duncan’s blog but I’m going to start with the other myth from the same post...
image credit: crimescene Mostly because I’ve never found a contact management system that I liked (ACT came the closest but the memory bleed from...
I was talking to a friend of mine this morning about an escrow of hers that closed a week ago. The seller was upside-down...
Someone I know recently passed a client along to me who owns a decent number of homes in the Phoenix area. Less than half...
Briefly … Today … no … it’s now yesterday. Yesterday was one of those days where the blog was less about real estate and...
Let’s say you have a marketing strategy that works. Let’s say for every so many times you perform said strategy you get a listing....
I may as well since Athol already has done so. Bloody wool-faced Kiwi. By mid-day today I will have switched from Century 21 Arizona...
Redfin proudly announced a couple of days ago that they had reached the $10 million mark in rebates to its customers. Good stuff. They...
Tobey and I didn’t make the cut, apparently because I haven’t photo-shopped anything onto his face (and erasing both one of his and one...
Some will have you believe that real estate commissions eventually must fall because the rise of the Internet will marginalize what we do. Disintermediation...
There are many questions you should ask a real estate broker when deciding where to hang your license: what training they offer, what they...