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Once again, First Night will be celebrated in Birmingham.   It is an evening of family themed activities with lots of great entertainment located throughout the city.   Now that Katya, our daughter, is 3 and old enough to appreciate the festivities we are looking forward to our first year at First Night.  Perhaps we will see […]

The Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce has launched a new web site. I just took a spin around and it looks great. Find them on the web at RoyalOakChamber.com
Photo of Gayle’s Chocolates taken by ercy.
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Last month something very interesting happened in the Birmingham/Bloomfield real estate market. It may not sound like something groundbreaking to most of you, but to me it was a BIG thing.
My friend Sara Lipnitz, who is an agent in my office, called together some of the top producing agents in other offices around town […]

Inman News, a leading real estate industry news source, named Sotheby’s President, Michael Good on their top 10 list of people to watch in 2007.
Michael Good, president and CEO, Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates. Good is charged with keeping the Sotheby’s network the quintessential luxury real estate brokerage, and the franchise is on a roll thanks […]

Small in size (only 5 square miles) the City of Bloomfield Hills is the wealthiest city outside of California or Florida, and the nation’s 4th wealthiest city with a population over 1,000. In the last census, Bloomfield Hills had just under 4,000 residents and a median family income of $170,000.
The jewel of Bloomfield Hills is […]

Don’t blame me for showing you this.  Especially if you have kids.  I promise you are going to laugh.  OfficeMax has outdone the dancing elf with North Pole Dancing.  You can change the music, the dance and the scene.  And you can put in any picture you want.   I have been forbidden from linking to […]

Just a little Christmas fun from our home to yours. If you click on Katya’s photo, she has been working on a special dance for you. Make sure you have your volume up.
Warmest Christmas Greetings.
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Overheard in my office more than once in the last two weeks, “Ever since the elections, it’s been like a Spring market.” The elections they are referring to are our Michigan gubernatorial elections in which the incumbent, Jennifer “She Can’t Run For President Because She Was Born in Canada” Granholm, easily defeated her Republican challenger, […]

We work in a centrally located downtown Birmingham office.  The internet goes down every so often when our company takes the server down for one reason or another.  But Birmingham was one of the first cities to test the Wireless Oakland project.  Our question.  Why doesn’t it work in an office at Woodward and Maple? […]

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I am putting this up in case anyone tries to read something from my archives. They can’t if they try to click on the permalink. This message is displayed “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria, please try and search again.”
I am trying to figure it out, but I don’t know how to fix it. […]

Today’s blockbuster Yankee Blog Swap brought out some unexpected guests. All eyes were turned on the real estate blogging world and thanks to MyBlogLog, we caught Donald Trump touring the first Yankee Blog Swap. So far, no comment from the Donald, though he seems to be adding associates quickly on MBL. Our […]