Greg has a nice post on mastering something difficult this year. I’m not sure it counts as a truly difficult task, but I started taking private pilot lessons in August, and was hooked. It turns out that flying in a small plane is fun, especially when you can fly most places you want with comparatively […]
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A week from today, we will list our first million-dollar residence. (The web site is a placeholder as I write this. We’ll begin to populate it next week.) But the home is a spectacular specimen, and we wanted to do something more to bring that out. So yesterday we put together our first full-color brochure […]
As an experienced agent with a successful real estate business, what excuses, deceptive thinking, or outright lies do you tell yourself to drive your fear of going out on your own and starting your own real estate brokerage firm? Read about the top ten lies I told myself before finally wising up and branching out on my own.
“Rodents are mammals by sufferance. Flying rodents are giant bugs with fur.”I am enmired in a Batman story, and it’s making me cranky: I don’t like Batman. I don’t believe his motivation, and I would not respect it if I did. Batman is nuts, but Batman is also a schmoo. But here’s the problem expressed generally: […]
Back in January, I wrote here about taking private pilot lessons. My post was inspired by one Greg wrote in December about mastering something difficult this year. Earlier this month I took an oral exam and then check ride with an designated examiner for the FAA, and I passed! The next day, I piled my […]
A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “Lord-a-mercy!” I said in my thickest southern drawl. “Somebody tell god to take the rest of the week off. He has made perfection, and there ain’t no topping that!” The beautiful blonde woman scowled and blushed at the same time. It made her look seventeen again. “Where is your charming […]
The pitch… That’s a sweet offer in the headline, don’t you think? It’s like Batman meets Ironman, but it’s all real — achievable now, no super-human powers required. Not enough? You want more? How’s this? I can show you how to all-but-eliminate every sort of street crime. I can show you how to protect any […]
I don’t have time for this, but I wanted to get my bet down on paper so I can bask in the glory — or ignominy — come Sunday night. 1. Don Draper is a coward. Whenever things don’t go his way, he tries to run away. 2. This season, he has played tentatively with […]
I got a speeding ticket today. Oops. The other week, I had what could have been a nice real estate transaction fall apart because I skipped a fundamental step, thinking it unnecessary, only to trip on it later. Worst of all, a new software project I’ve been working on is failing, taking the SplendorQuest server […]
I have been buried in 18 hour days lately. My frist inclination towards anything that comes my way has been. “I’m buried. Leave me alone.” or “I will get back to you on it.” But this story tugged at me a little. Enough for me to take action. See, back in the day here on […]
I have found a tool that I think will be helpful to Realtors, and while I’m just getting started with TimeDriver, the response from clients and colleagues is “Wow! I love that.” And that’s plenty reason to keep a tool around, but I’m beginning to see how I could use it for a lot of real estate applications.
For all the doom and gloom about the economy etc., it’s important to remember that the productive talents of human beings can create better lives for all of us. Technology is one sector of the economy that, broadly speaking, has witnessed tremendous innovation over the past 30 years. Nearly the whole panoply of consumer electronics […]
2009 has changed me. It has been a year of struggle, victory, and in the end… of complete thankfulness for all of the good things that I have in life. Living in America is one of those good things. Living with a family that loves me unconditionally is another. One of the lessons that I […]
This is good writing, and the man takes it down in 500 words. From The Denver Post: Twitter’s popularity and usefulness are a mystery to me. Pressed by personal, professional and cultural forces, I sporadically deploy short missives for fear of becoming one of those cantankerous technophobes who is too dense to recognize the miracle […]
Stuff like this is why I went public with our Notice of Trustee’s Sale: Author : A concerned renter E-mail : irquel@REDACTED.com Stopped paying your mortgage? BAHAHAHHAAHA! Welcome to the hell you brought on others, you pathetic parasite. Good thing you’re a psychopath and can’t feel anything, or you’d be really bummed. The point was […]