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Almost everyone but me is done with their 2006 retrospectives. I will use the Julian calendar as my excuse. I celebrated Christmas on January 7th, and I’ve got until January 14th to greet the New Year by my accounts. I was also busy with the ActiveRain retrospective, so I didn’t get [...]

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For the last few months I have been organizing blog carnivals on ActiveRain. For those of you real estate professionals who haven’t heard of ActiveRain, I have one word: JOIN. ActiveRain is an amazing network, and I learn something new there just about every day. If you are looking for a ways to [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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The Real Estate Yankee Blog Swap has arrived and our gift is in! Anthony Longo, the CEO of condoDomain, gave us this delightful post to unwrap and share with the world. He promised me there would be no brussel sprouts and he delivered. Thank you for a perfect gift, Anthony. Here [...]

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Anthony Longo from CondoDomain surprised me this morning by meme-ing me. I remember singing “me me me me me” to warm up for choir practice in college, but this is not quite the same thing. Basically this little game of tag is running simultaneously all over the blogosphere as I was just tagged yesterday [...]

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Mary McKnight from RSSPieces has come up with the real estate blogging event that will end the year of 2006, the year the real estate blogging really broke out into its own according to Inman News. In the spirit of the season, some of the industry’s top bloggers are switching blogs on December [...]

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The second Carnival of ActiveRain has just come to an end. For those of you unfamiliar with ActiveRain, it is an outstanding community of real estate professionals. If you are involved in real estate, you should check it out and consider joining.
November’s Carnival of ActiveRain focused on consumer content, or, as I like [...]

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“These are not the droids you are looking for. You may go about your business. Move along.”
That is the message that is currently on the front page of miOaklandCounty.com. I certainly did NOT put it there. Have I been hacked? I have no explanation.
Who would want to mess with my measly little real estate blog? [...]

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Blogging has gotten away from me this week.  Life and real estate have gotten in the way.  In a span of 5 days, we’ve taken on 6 new listings, written a couple of offers and picked up a few new buyers.  We are excited by the activity.
Today I am holding open our listing on 663 [...]

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This week we started a new Blog Carnival over on our ActiveRain blog. Blog carnivals are contests where bloggers submit their favorite posts and the host choses one to feature. For those of you who have not heard of ActiveRain yet, it is a blogging site for real estate professionals and others from affiliated [...]

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