Blogging

I love that little Plugoo thingy over to the right. It allows people to chat with me if I am on line or to send me messages if I am off line. Those messages actually come through to my Blackberry immediately, so if there were a “real estate emergency” (like you need me to write [...]

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Some interesting things we have read recently… Triangle, Barnum and Shain discussions in Birmingham A new Birmingham MI Homes web site for Dmitry and Maureen (we are just getting started on it) The trouble with Michigan’s school funding on Rob Lawrence’s Schools, Politics and Common Sense. Oakland County’s Dental Discount Program on Dave Lambert’s Troy [...]

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We try to keep up on real estate trends lots of places, not just here in Metro Detroit. Here are a few of the blogs (there are more) that we like to track: Charlotte Real Estate SoundBiteBlog Eastern Connecticut Real Estate Real Estate Undressed miBirmingham.com Manhattan Real Estate Delaware Ohio Real Estate Virginia Real Estate [...]

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A few weeks ago another Realtor in the Birmingham MI real estate market referred to me derogatorily as a “blogger”, somehow implying that blogging is not something that a real estate agent does to sell homes. Oh, how wrong he is. And I am OK that he does not know better. Another victim of “Old [...]

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Recently a very successful Birmingham Realtor asked me, “Maureen, how come you have been quoted so much in the newspaper lately? Is it your…ummm…ahh…(she struggled to find the word) … blog?” Um, yes, Mrs. Successful Realtor, it just might be that as I have not been sending any gifts to newspaper reporters lately, nor would [...]

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This week the Carnival of Real Estate has landed in Motown (or suburban Motown if you want to get technical) and in keeping with the motor city’s rich musical heritage we are awarding our weekly picks with theme songs of their own. Motown theme songs, of course. So sit back, relax, and prepare to let [...]

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photo credit mdot Written by Maureen FrancisSKBK Sotheby’s International Realty, 248.430.4450 Visit WebsiteSearch for homes in Oakland County

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Here comes a post that has nothing to do with real estate or metro Detroit or Oakland County. Some times we just have to do something just for fun, right? Today miOaklandCounty.com is about to pass a memorable milestone. Akismet, our spam comment blocking program is about to devour its 15,000 piece of comment spam. [...]

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The schools are closed here in Birmingham today, so I’ve been doing fun things with my 3 year old like making bluish-green raspberry oatmeal for breakfast. She is in a colored food phase. The color theme continues, as I am tickled pink right now. See photo below for proof. Larry Cragun of Real Estate Undressed [...]

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In the ever changing world of miOaklandCounty’s sidebars you will now find Meebo. It is all the rage in the blogging world right now, and its popping up on real estate blogs as quickly as for sale signs on front lawns in South East Michigan. Ouch. I should not have said that. Anyway, Meebo lets [...]

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Two of my favorite bloggers have just joined forces to create Sound Bite Blog. Catchy name, huh? Mark Flanders is a mortgage guy and Rich Jacobson is a Realtor, and they live and work on the Kitsap Peninsula which is near Seattle. I’ve been reading them for months on another platform and they’ve introduced me [...]

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