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The National Association Of Realtors Is A Cult!

The National Association of Realtors seems, for all intents and purposes, to be a cult! How else would you explain the erratic, non-sensical behavior and statements that are generated by this organization.

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My Life Started As A Remote Control

My Father often told me that the reason for my conception was that he needed someone to get off the couch and change the channel on demand. For those of you out there younger than 35, it may be hard to envision a time when you had to do this.

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I Told You It Was A Going Out Of Business Sale!

On January 8, 2008, there was a blog posting here that caused quite the firestorm. In that post it was stated that it sure seemed to us like the National Association of Realtors had decided not to answer the bell and was in effect commencing a going out of business sale. Well today, there’s more [...]

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The Listing Addendum Every Seller Must Have And Most Agents Will Never Agree To

  Last week there was a lot of chatter on real estate industry blogs about the Ummel case in Carlsbad, California in which a client has taken her real estate agent to task over alleged misrepresentation and incompetency. As can be expected, many major news media organizations have picked up on the story and it [...]

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What’s In and What’s Out For 2008

  I have to say that every once in a while I find myself picking up one of those magazines you see on the rack just as you are about to checkout in the grocery lines. Whether it be the one about another Elvis sighting, or the one about which celebrity is fat now, or [...]

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Let Me Clear Something Up…We Remain Bullish On Real Estate!

  We have a lot of fun on the air because of the absurdity of real estate professionals. Yes, sometimes we can be kind of harsh, but hey, it is a joke sometimes. Using professional and real estate in the same sentence, as I just did, is an oxymoron. A true professional would be able [...]

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Reality vs. Ideology. Reality Always Wins

  This is what happens when facts and dreams collide. This is what happens when people with business and financial information at their disposal get into conversations with ideologues. The ideologues advocacy leaves them hopeless in the face of verifiable information.

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6 Profit Strategies in an Absolute Buyer’s Market

  Some may read this and find it to be a bit harsh. That’s fine, it’s obviously not that kind of reader that this article seeks to reach. I am speaking to the maverick. I am speaking to the man or woman who can look themselves in the mirror and unabashedly exclaim…”I am a Capitalist”! [...]

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I Can’t Help It, They Make It Too Easy

  You know, I wake up, take a shower, walk the dogs, get my blueberry muffin and read my morning email. It’s my daily routine and this morning being the first day back after the Holidays and I am absolutely ready to hit the ground running with enthusiasm…and then I get this yo-yo’s email in [...]

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If I was a Real Estate Broker…

“Investing in a buggy whip after Henry Ford created the Model T was not going to be fruitful no mater how good a buggy whip it was.” “”I’m sure that the last buggy whip company in America made the best damn buggy whips in the world” Larry “the Liquidator” Garfield from the 1991 movie “Other [...]

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