Regular site visitors and subscribers know that I usually have way too much fun with statistics… but here’s one I might just leave alone. According to a “think tank” in Australia, Maine is is the most peaceful state in America. There was lots of good news… including the “fact” that the United States had (in [...]
This story has been floating around the internet for a while… An agent wanted to congratulate his clients on their recent closing. He decided a nice arrangement of flowers would fit the bill. Later that week, his client called him, perplexed: “Why did you send me a bouquet of flowers that said ‘Rest in Peace’?” [...]
Just How Positive Should We Be?
I’m a fan of Scott Levitt’s Tuesday Tactics Newsletter… and in a recent issue he led with this quote from Gil Stern: Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. He ends his thought-provoking column with the recommendation that we shouldn’t jump out of a [...]
There’s a scary email that’s been making the rounds for some time warning folks that the “National Association of Realtors” is “all over” a 3.8% sales tax that was part of the Obama Health Care Bill… the retiring generation is getting screwed, etc. etc. It doesn’t mention that the sky might be falling too. This [...]
But it’s not a defense. You might blissfully speed down the highway. But don’t try telling the police officer who stopped you for going 60 MPH that you didn’t know the speed limit was 30 MPH. I doubt he’ll say, “Oh, ok! Have a nice day!” When it comes to real estate the problem becomes the [...]
Who works for you? Before you know the answers, you have to consider the questions! Finding answers is easy. Sometimes we find right answers, sometimes we find answers that are wrong. When you are involved in a real estate transaction right answers are important. But it’s not very helpful to have the right answers to [...]
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