Happy Black Friday

Happy Black Friday!  For those of you with money, all sorts of assets are for sale at rock bottom prices.  Go forth and buy! In many parts of the country you can scoop up houses for less than the cost of building them.   A friend of mine is buying houses in Florida for $25,000 when [...]

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Where you live might affect your personality

Check out this recent study that identifies different regional personalities for the various United States.    It says that while Californian rank high in openness they are not very extraverted.  After living here for a while I agree with this.  Californians tend to want to know that you have something in common before becoming friendly.  Compare [...]

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blogrush widget removed

A couple of weeks ago I attempted to add a blogrush widget to my blog. For those of you who don’t know, the idea behind blogrush was that it was a virual way to link similar blogs to each other. It was a rather ugly widget that would have looked awkward with the theme I [...]

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New beginnings

I blogged for a while on real estate in 2005 on blogger.com. I got so busy with everything I was doing that I stopped blogging. I haven’t stopped with real estate, in fact I’ve done several preconstruction deals. My impetus in starting this blog on wordpress is that I’ve hooked up with some cool people [...]

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Nerd Score

Ok, I know this has nothing to do with real estate. But it was fun.

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Flakiness

Why is it that people don’t return phone calls and emails? I don’t always think as myself as the most responsive, but I usually get back to people at some point. But as I attempt to create new contacts and work on real estate deals, I’m finding there isn’t a lot of followthrough. Is it [...]

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